If there’s someone Michigan Republicans should say is “bats*** crazy,” it ought to be someone in their own party, either at the federal level or at the state level. But of course they’re referring to a Democrat.
According to an Associated Press report in the New York Times,
A Republican legislative leader in Michigan apologized Thursday for using an expletive to describe Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as crazy, saying it was “disrespectful and unnecessary.”
The Collegian at Hillsdale College quoted [Michigan] Senate Majority [Leader] Mike Shirkey’s comments to Republican students last week. He combined the word “bat” and an obscenity while saying Whitmer and Democratic lawmakers are on the “crazy spectrum.”
“I reached out to Governor Whitmer directly and apologized for my comments,” Shirkey said in a written statement. “I regret what I said. In times of peak frustration we often say things we don’t mean, but that’s no excuse for my offensive statement. It was disrespectful and unnecessary.”
Disrespectful? Definitely. Unnecessary? Depends on what Shirkey intended to accomplish with his remarks. If it was to keep the state budget impasse going and ingratiate himself to the Hillsdale College chapter of the College Republicans, well, mission accomplished.
In his remarks as reported by Matt Fisher for the Hillsdale Collegian, Shirkey also defended Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump is such a paragon of sanity and lucidity.
When asked his thoughts on the impeachment hearings in the United States House of Representatives, Shirkey defended President Donald Trump and critiqued House Democrats for their handling of the situation.
“We are going through ‘kabuki’ theater on impeachment,” Shirkey said. “It hurts my heart to see our president under attack, but it also hurts my heart to see our institutions under attack.”
Yeah, okay… who do you think is attacking our institutions anyway, Shirkey? Not Shirkey’s equivalent in the U. S. Senate, one Moscow Mitch, who refused to even hold votes on President Obama’s judicial nominees. And not the so-called president, who has told aides to break the law, whether to get his dumb wall built or to obstruct justice by ignoring congressional subpoenas.
But the Democrats in the U. S. House, who are following the impeachment process as laid out in the U. S. Constitution while at the same time continuing to pass bills looking out for the interests of the people (bills that will stall in U. S. Senate), and Gov. Whitmer, working to get Michigan’s roads fixed and also working to prevent a major oil spill disaster in the Great Lakes.
Those are the people who, according to Shirkey, are attacking our institutions. Moscow Mitch should lose his majority leader position in the U. S. Senate. And likewise Shirkey should lose his majority leader position in the Michigan Senate.