Opinion by Hal Brown
When my goddaughter worked as a legislative aid in the House of Representatives she told me that the dumbest member of the House was Republican Sonny Bono. She said he was modest and well liked but just not particularly intelligent. He was conservative but she never consider him to be an unhinged crackpot.
Nostalgia Break:
Here’s Sonny and Cher, who went through a bitter divorce 12 years previously, when for the last time they sang their biggest hit. I think it is one of the best love songs for a duet. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. They seem to have genuine affection for each other.
But as I am prone to do, I digressed...
Now when we read about Republicans in Congress, particularly in the House of Representatives it seem to be a race to the top of the list for the Most Cracked Congressional Crackpot Award.
Until this morning the people who seemed to be in contention for First Place seemed to be Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, and from before the election the man The Lincoln Project called the dumbest and craziest, Louie Gohmert and Matt Goetz.
Now Salon is featuring a story about yet another Republican: Mark Meadows performed life-changing favors for Madison Cawthorn, then turned on him. Why? He hasn’t made the news for anything he’s done in Congress yet, but stay tuned. Prior to the Salon story he was known for this:
In 2017 Cawthorn posted pictures on Instagram of a trip with his brother to Adolf Hitler’s German mountain retreat. He said the trip to the Eagle’s Nest “has been on my bucket list for years. And it did not disappoint.” The posts, now gone viral, were reportedly taken down on Monday. “NC House candidate is under fire for posts some call sympathetic to white nationalists”, Charlotte Observer
and for this:
He later supplemented that by creating a real estate entity that shares its name with a slogan often embraced by white nationalists.
Cawthorn claims the slogan is simply "a term for Rome."
Over at the Senate we may have a contender for the award in Tommy Tuberville, but it remains to be seen whether or not he may be in the running considering this story: “Tommy Tuberville, meet the Constitution. Constitution, Sen. Tuberville” about his wanting to move the date of the inauguration.
This got me to thinking. Are there any Democrats who one could cite who could compete to the Most Cracked Crackpot Award?
I can’t come up with any?
Hmmm…. I wonder why that is.
Could it be that the Republicans winning these race run in deep red districts populated by racists, gun nuts, and wackos while the Democrats running in deep blue districts win because voters there actually care about small D democratic values?
Addendum:
I didn't vote for Oregon Democratic Representative Kurt Shrader in the primary but had no choice but to vote for him in the general election. He is the most conservative Oregon Democrat in Congress. Read article.