One of my major dislikes of the Republican Party is the way they treat the Biden family. Think about it. On December 18, 1972, just weeks after being elected the junior senator from Delaware, Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident when a tractor-trailer struck their vehicle while they were out shopping for a Christmas tree. In 2015, Beau Biden, Biden’s eldest son, and Iraqi war veteran, died of brain cancer at the age of 46. Even before that happened Biden struggled to support his younger son Hunter who had become lost in Crack and alcohol addiction. None of this had anything to do with politics, it was just a decades long saga of family tragedies. If those same events had happened in your family, or you witnessed them happening to the family of a friend, do you think a little compassion might be the appropriate response? As we can see each day this has not been the Republican response. Instead they have used these tragedies to seek political advantage, and no one more than Marjorie Taylor Greene who, for me, is the manifestation of what my mother would have termed, slut.
MAGAt Republican smug Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Credit: Getty
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin blasted House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer in a letter Thursday for allowing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to show Hunter Biden’s nude photos during a hearing last week, saying the committee is “rapidly being reduced to the level of a 1970s-era dime store peep show.” Raskin is demanding that Comer deal with it and restore some dignity to the committee with a public rebuke of Greene and “a statement condemning her actions as an affront to the dignity, propriety, and decorum of the Committee.”
“It is incumbent upon you to make clear that Rep. Greene’s use of pornographic images at a public hearing clearly violated House rules and to ensure that we are not subject to repeated incidents or similarly unacceptable actions in future hearings,” Raskin wrote. “If this was acceptable for Rep. Greene, you are establishing it as acceptable for all Members.”
Comer responded predictably by basically telling Raskin to shove it, and then changing the subject. He accused Raskin of trying to spare Hunter […]
