Republicans in the White House, House of Representatives, and in the Senate have never shied away from publicly and immediately criticizing anything and everything Democrats do or say.
First and foremost, there are Donald Trump’s never-ending caustic criticisms of any Democrat in the House, the Senate, and or on the 2020 campaign trail who dares to in any way disagree with him.
Then there are Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s somewhat opaque but dissembling comments about any Democratic initiative like The Green New Deal.
How about Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s super-fast supercilious criticisms of anti-Semitic remarks by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar?
And Republican Senator Chuck Grassley’s characterization of Democratic opposition to Brett Cavanaugh as ‘mob rule’?
If those examples aren’t enough, how about the blustering anti-Democrat hissy-fit thrown by South Carolina’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham during the Cavanaugh hearing? Wasn’t that something?
Oh, those Republicans, so quick to criticize any behavior they consider to be disruptive . . . tough, aren’t they?
But, wait a second . . . a Coast Guard Lieutenant, alleged by law enforcement to be a ‘domestic terrorist’ was arrested a week ago for preparing to assassinate just about every prominent Trump political and media critic in America; a series of actions that would have resulted in the most horrific killing crusade in history yet we haven’t heard a critical word or any word from any so-called Republican leader.
Donald Trump, a prolific ranter and raver, hasn’t said anything at all about the alleged domestic terrorist’s scheme to assassinate the Democratic Speaker of the House.
Mitch McConnell has been mum about the suspect’s plan to murder Democratic Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer.
Kevin McCarthy has uttered nary a word about the alleged terrorist’s strategy to kill Democratic Representatives Maxine Waters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Chuck Grassley has been utterly silent about the suspect’s alleged intent to murder announced and unannounced Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Elizabeth Warren.
And then there’s South Carolina’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who’s always been good for a corridor comment or two about any threat against our democracy but has failed for a week now to even mention the implications of the suspect’ s threats to kill notable members of America’ s purportedly free press.
So . . . what’s happening here?
What’s up with these supposedly honorable yet so conspicuously hypocritical Republicans?
Huh?