My Thursday column begins like so:
One of the major takeaways from the series dramatic political events over the last 48 hours is quite simply that the Republicans will do anything to win. Almost literally anything. Chicanery and complex scheming in politics isn’t anything new (see also House of Cards), but the intensity and frequency — not to mention the broad-daylight hubris of it all by the Republicans this week has been extraordinary to behold.
It’s surely symptomatic of the Republican Party’s current status on the endangered species list, but that’s also what makes the party’s collective fealty to far-right bigotry and oppression even more peculiar, given how the policy areas at issue this week have almost exclusively impacted women and minorities.
We were told the party was endeavoring to reach out to the demographic groups that helped doom its electoral chances last November. Clearly not, and it’s disintegrated into a predictably failed outreach effort. There was never any doubt that the extremists who occupy the far-right base, as well as the fire-eaters in the conservative entertainment complex, would never allow the party to soften its posture. And so it goes.
Here now are the top six examples of Republican cheating, racism, hypocrisy and general insanity from the last 48 hours: [READ ON]