Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is to the U.S. Senate what Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are to the House of Representatives: A clueless gasbag who knows almost nothing about virtually everything.
Blackburn proved her massive ignorance with a tweet she sent out suggesting that her home state of Tennessee wants to see a wall built on its southern border:
“Tennesseans want a wall on our southern border.”
Blackburn likely meant that the people of Tennessee want a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but the way she phrased her tweet set off hysterical laughter online and was a reminder that the senator’s so-called “qualifications” for office are a degree in home economics from Mississippi State University.
The geography department at Trump University was severely underfunded.
— Four-Time Indicted One-Term Trumpy (parody) (@outofcontroljb) April 11, 2022
when I was a TN resident years ago, I'd have joked this would protect TN from MS, AL and GA — but now that human dust bunnies like you are in office, pretty sure it's the other way around
Tennesseans want health care. We want broadband. We want better schools that aren’t underfunded and at risk of losing add’l funds b/c of the governors charter school-for-profit scheme. They want clean air and water.
They want you to do your job, not simply snark-tweet all day.
Cruz, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, meant to diss Yale on “The Liz Wheeler Show” and his own “Verdict With Ted Cruz” podcast when he said Yale would probably require him to (initially) be in a “smoking jacket with maybe a Sherlock Holmes pipe and maybe some Madeira.”
He mused: “Or, I don’t know, has it gone more hippie than that? Like, nude and taking peyote or something.”
Ted announces he has an upcoming speaking engagement at Yale, and says they may want him to smoke some peyote and give his speech nude. pic.twitter.com/6SQqD0KBon
In an effort to explain why she is opposed to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) cited the U.S. Constitution as her rationale.
But instead of referencing the Constitution, Blackburn proved her own massive ignorance, quoting the Declaration of Independence.
Here’s the tweet Blackburn sent out on Wednesday afternoon:
Um…no.
As HuffPost notes, this isn’t the first time Blackburn has gotten American history horrible wrong:
Blackburn has something of a history of constitutional screwups. Last year, she vowed: “We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States,” seemingly ignoring the 27 times it’s been amended. Blackburn even co-sponsored resolutions in support of three potential amendments.
It didn’t take long before social media lit up with laughter and mockery, all aimed at the ditzy Tennessee senator, who has a degree in home economics and clearly didn’t bother to study very hard in college.
Shamefully, this US Senator doesn’t know her American history…The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE “declares” our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…NOT the Constitution. https://t.co/EuVAfy6JnN
She’s confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence. Neither document *grants* these rights. And what’s the deal anyway with Republicans insisting our rights come from government? The Declaration specifically rejects this notion. https://t.co/Vrojsuk8CA
1. That's from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, Einstein. 2. You're on the Judiciary Committee. You should know this. 3. You violated your oath to the Constitution when you voted against impeachment, but at least read the document. pic.twitter.com/uoDkasCZYt
Literally the LEAST we could ask is that members of Congress be familiar with the country's founding documents. Unfortunately, our qualifications are basically "how old are you and can you exhibit the motor functions of a tadpole."
That's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. I grew up in Tennessee public schools and you're an embarrassment to the state and education both, you racist box of hair. https://t.co/P4xET6dYyQ
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) appeared to take a shot at his fellow GOP Senate colleague Ted Cruz (TX) during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has been nominated by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.
As he was questioning Judge Jackson, Sasse noted that he didn’t think it would be a good idea to have cameras in the high court:
“A huge part of why this institution doesn’t work well is because we have cameras everywhere. Cameras change human behavior. We know this. … There’s a whole bunch of things humans can do if they’re not immediately mindful of some distant camera audience that they might be trying to create a soundbite for.
“I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities, and it is definitely a second and third and fourth order effect that the court should think through before it has advocates in there who are not only trying to persuade you nine justices, but also trying to get on cable that night or create a viral video.”
Though he didn’t call Cruz out by name, the Texas Republican immediately looked up from his cell phone and stared at Sasse, clearly thinking the jibe had been directed at him.
GOP Sen. Ben Sasse, following aggressive lines of questioning from Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz this week:
"We should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities." pic.twitter.com/BNb2wuMi6q
Some laughter as Sasse says "cameras change human behavior" and that the "jackassery we often see around here is partly because people are mugging for short-term camera opportunities." Cruz has looked up from his phone at Sasse, who is sitting right next to him
If indeed Sasse was aiming his comment at Cruz, he was merely speaking the truth. Ted Cruz has always been and will always will be one of the biggest jackasses on the face of the planet.
Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun says he thinks the U.S. Supreme Court had no right to mandate that interracial marriage had to be legal in all states and that each individual state should be able to decide on such issues without the interference of the courts.
According to The Times of Northwest Indiana, Braun said the landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision that struck down state bans on interracial marriage, was a mistake:
“Braun initially limited his claim to the national right to abortion established by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision he hopes the current, more conservative, Supreme Court will overturn in coming months when it rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But, when asked by The Times, Braun admitted there are many Supreme Court decisions he believes improperly established federal rights that would be better handled on a state-by-state basis, including Loving v. Virginia that legalized interracial marriage, and Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) establishing a right to privacy concerning contraceptive use.”
Specifically, Braun commented:
“We’re better off having states manifest their points of view, rather than homogenizing it across the country as Roe v. Wade did. This should be something where the expression of individual states are able to weigh-in on these issues through their own legislation, through their own court systems. Quit trying to put the federal government in charge.”
So now we have a Republican member of the Senate who is quite literally letting the mask slip and saying that if the state of Mississippi decides that blacks in their state cannot marry whites, they should have every right to do so.
Or, suppose the state of Indiana wants to say that same-sex couples have no right to marry or live together, they should also be allowed do to so because hey, state’s rights and all that stuff, the very same argument that was made for decades on the issue of slavery.
Fortunately, the reaction to Braun’s remarks was utter disgust and disdain, as it damn well should be:
