“Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government — wasn’t set up that way. You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.”
I liked Tommy Tuberville better when he was just stupid, when as an incoming senator from Alabama he forgot there was a branch of the government called the judiciary. When in the same interview he said we fought in World War II to defeat socialism.
Yup, he’s dumb. But I don’t really expect more from Alabama, where Tuberville won the seat once held by Rapin’ Roy Moore, who was banned from the shopping mall because he never met a 13-year-old girl he didn’t like.
Sorry, Will Rogers.
Alabama is the state where divorces and tornadoes have one thing in common. Somebody’s going to lose a trailer.
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It’s the state where when Cletus divorced his wife, he asked the judge if that meant she wouldn’t be his sister anymore either.
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Actually, it really would be a lot better if Tommy, whose qualification for being a senator was being a football coach at a college other than Alabama. At least as a coach who had both black and white players on his team, he had to hide the fact that he was a vicious racist.
As a Senate Republican, racism isn’t a flaw.
It’s a feature.
Tuberville was far from Alabama when he appeared at a Trump rally in Minden, Nev., Saturday night and attacked Democrats without bothering to use the dig whistle Republicans usually use when talking about the opposition.
“Some people say [Democrats are] soft on crime. No, they’re not soft on crime. They’re pro crime! They want crime because they want to take over what you’ve got. They want to control what you have. They want reparations because they think that the people who do the crime are owed that. Bullshit!”
All right, let’s get one thing out of the way first.
Tubs never used the “N” word.
But unless there has suddenly been a crime wave involving Native Americans or Japanese-Americans, there’s really only one other ethnic group in the country about which the term “reparations” is bandied around.
African-Americans.
There’s a big difference between Republicans from the 1950s and ’60s and present-day Trumpublicans., and it goes back to the 1980s, when as Barry Goldwater put it, the preachers got involved in politics.
That was when folks on the far right used the Roe v Wade decision and the abortion issue to motivate people who tended to see everything in terms of good and evil.
Of course the great irony there is they wound up with their wagon hitched to Donald Trump, maybe the farthest thing from good imaginable in politics. Add to that the resurgence of out-and-out racism among Southern conservatives and get guys like Tommy Tuberville running the country.
In other words, sappy days are here again.