The less-than-Honorable Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina pulled out his penis and asserted his male dominance today over California Junior Senator Kamala Harris, chastising her for not being “courteous” to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during his unwillingness to directly answer the question she had asked him.
This type of male, right-wing tactic plays well with their base. “Put the woman in her place” and “He showed him” mantras are certainly in the households of those that have been brain-washed into believing anything the Republicans are doing is for them.
Mitch McConnell, perhaps the most destructive American politician in history, did something similar to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) earlier this year. But if you will notice, a clear pattern begins emerging. The male Republican senators have no problem with opening “talking-down to” the female Senators. I will note, they would not have done this with former Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski- for some reason the male senators did either fear or respect her.
It’s also interesting to note that the two Senators who were silenced by the alpha-male carriers of Republican propaganda were from decidedly liberal states, California and Massachusetts, so there’s that, too.
In the past, I would have been against retribution, but when the Democrats regain control of the Senate, I am not in favor of them treating the GOP in the same manner in which they’ve been treated. We see that cooperation is something the GOP is NOT interested in; they only want to gain power to be able to say the Democrats are not willing.
They’ve been obstructionists for the past ten years, the GOP, and now that they have complete control of the federal government and control most of the statehouses, they have either no clue how to govern or never had any intention of doing so. Either way, it’s clear to even the blindest and most partisan of us that they are idealess toward anything that will actually help Americans.
And with their tax plan, it should be clear by looking at what happened in Kansas today. Governor Brownback introduced a new form of perennially proven unsuccessful ‘trickle-down economics’ there a few years back, when the state had a surplus of around $800 million dollars. Today, after the failure once again of an economic theory as tactical as carrying water with a sieve, the actual ruling party, and the Governor’s own, overrode his veto and rid the state of his disastrous tax plan, one I might add they fully supported. The state today is in debt nearly $5.3 billion! BILLION! Yeah, trickle down works.
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