Whoredom Has Never Been More Embarrassing

 

...in the House, Republicans have largely taken on the role of cheerleaders .... Competition of sorts has broken out for whom the Republican base will see as the most pro-Trump member.

--Luke Broadwater, NYTimes

 

Representative Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) filed legislation to make President Trump eligible for a third term. In one of his first acts in office, freshman Addison McDowell (R-NC) submitted a bill that would change the name of Washington Dulles International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport. McDowell said he wanted to put Mr. Trump on "even standing" with former President Ronald Reagan, who has a D.C. airport named after him. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), filed legislation to expunge the two impeachments of Trump, an attempt to clear the record of any mention of his alleged offenses and make it as if the impeachments “had never passed the full House of Representatives.” And just last week, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Florida) submitted a bill to add Trump’s scowling likeness to Mount Rushmore, placing him alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

“It shows the power that Donald Trump has within the Republican Party these days, and that Republican members want to stay on his good side,” said Sean M. Theriault, government professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “A lot of these people are in really safe districts, but they’re also thinking about what their next step is. And so if they have designs on being in the Senate or running for governor or even a position in the administration, then there’s no better way to get on his good side than to do these over-the-top moves toward him.”

Ms. Greene, for instance, has traveled with Mr. Trump so extensively that she feels she knows what he wants before he asks for it. When Mr. Trump proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Ms. Greene was quick to file legislation on the topic.

“I’ve spent the past five years traveling the country with President Trump, campaigning for him, going to probably more rallies than any member of Congress, and I know how he thinks. I know what’s on his heart, and I know his agenda for America,” she said, adding: “So being quick on those things, it’s not difficult.”

Bottomline: Kiss the tyrant's Gucci feet, you get definite rewards. For example, Marjory Taylor Greene has gone from a virtual pariah deemed unfit to hold a committee seat to the chair of a new subcommittee aimed at cutting government spending. Last week, federal prosecutors in Nashville withdrew from a criminal investigation into Ogles that he said was focused on his campaign finance transactions.

Equal justice under law? Naw. Not for the ass-smoochers, especially for those valiant few who get up right next the hole, where it's black and red and bitter.