The Hateful 126

Last week, 126 House Republicans signed their names to an antidemocratic attempt to toss out the votes of 20 million Americans in four states that gave Joe Biden the victory over Donald Jumbotron Trump, including members of the so-called GOP "leadership" ("so-called" and in quotations because they're not really leaders at all but just scared little beta sheep following their leader). Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, called this act "an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come."  

The Supreme Court ultimately decided the case had no merit and that the plaintiffs had no standing and declined to even hear the case, but even though the attempted soft coup failed, our elected officials still tried to overturn the will of the people.  According to the U.S. Constitution, government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, and in this case, the people's supposed representatives decided to put their own goals and interests ahead of that expressed by the American people.

In the closing scene of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, Brad Pitt's character uses a bowie knife to carve a swastika into the forehead of a German general before he defected to make sure that everyone in the future would know that he once was a Nazi.  Beyond an "indelible stain," I wish there was some way that we would never forget who the treasonous, seditious congressmen who supported this unconstitutional coup were.  Short of carving big letter T's into their foreheads, this blog will follow these traitors to the Constitution and delight in their eventual downfall.

Probably the worst of the worst were the congressmen from the four states the lawsuit sought to overturn.  In effect, these people wanted to go to the Supreme Court to overturn the will of the very people who elected them to office.  Here in Georgia, they were  

1. Rick Allen (not the drummer from the rock band Def Leppard but an Augusta congressman who once quoted Bible verses and told his fellow Republicans they were “going to hell” if they voted for the a vital spending bill because of an attached amendment that would protect LGBT workers.).
2. Buddy Carter (a supposedly grown adult who still calls himself "Buddy." Need I say more?)  
3. Doug Collins (the ass-clown Trump enabler who last month lost in his Senate bid to Kelly Loeffler, and said some truly awful, hateful things following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.)  
4. A. Drew Ferguson (who once had a biography of Robert E. Lee displayed under glass in his office, opened to a page highlighting the Confederate general’s racist ideology: “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically," etc.)
5. Jody Hice (a pastor and radio show host who claims that Islam is not a religion but a geo-political structure and therefore is not deserving of First Amendment protection, and that there is a Muslim Brotherhood plot to take over the United States.)
6. Barry Loudermilk  (who likened the impeachment of Trump to the crucifixion of Jesus, stating on the Congressional record, "When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers." Experts on religion say that Jesus did not in fact have the right to face his accusers while Trump, on the other hand, did have an opportunity to present a defense.)
7. Austin Scott (staunchly opposed to health-care reform, he lead an effort in 2010 to pressure the Georgia Attorney General to file a lawsuit against the federal government over the Affordable Care Act, and then ironically tested positive for covid-19 ten years later.)

Do not, under any circumstance, ever vote for any of these seven.  Doug Collins stands alone in this list as the only one who lost in the 2020 election (didn't his own concession to Awful Loeffler acknowledge the legitimacy of the very election he is now contesting?). Hopefully, he is now consigned to the trash heaps of history, but we need to keep an eye out for any attempted return, as well as for the political downfall of the other six.

In addition to Georgia, the lawsuit also sought to overturn votes in Pennsylvania,  Michigan, and Wisconsin.  Representatives of those states who signed onto the suit include to effectively disenfranchise their own constituencies are:

• Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.)
• Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.)
• Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Fred Keller (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.)
• Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.)
• Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.)
• Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.)

Don't vote for any of them either. 

 Here's the list of the remaining cowards and traitors.  Don't vote for any of these either (unless it's a vote for impeachment):

Alabama

• Robert B. Aderholt
• Mo Brooks
• Bradley Byrne
• Gary Palmer
• Mike D. Rogers

Arizona

• Andy Biggs
• Debbie Lesko

Arkansas

• Rick Crawford

California

• Ken Calvert
• Doug LaMalfa
• Kevin McCarthy (of course)
• Tom McClintock

Colorado

• Ken Buck
• Doug Lamborn

Florida

• Gus Bilirakis
• Mario Diaz-Balart
• Neal Dunn
• Matt "Frat-Boy" Gaetz
• Bill Posey
• John Rutherford
• Ross Spano
• Greg Steube
• Michael Waltz
• Daniel Webster (Republicans like to complain about "dead people voting," but I thought Webster died in 1852)
• Ted Yoho

Idaho

• Russ Fulcher
• Mike Simpson

Illinois

• Mike Bost
• Darin M. LaHood

Indiana

• James Baird
• Jim Banks
• Trey Hollingsworth
• Greg Pence
• Jackie Walorski

Iowa

• Known racist Steve King (who lost his re-election)

Kansas

• Ron Estes
• Roger Marshall

Louisiana

• Ralph Abraham
• Clay Higgins
• Mike Johnson
• Steve Scalise

Maryland

• Andy Harris
• Minnesota
• Tom Emmer
• Jim Hagedorn
• Pete Stauber

Mississippi

• Michael Guest
• Trent Kelly
• Steven Palazzo

Missouri

• Sam Graves
• Vicky Hartzler
• Billy Long
• Blaine Luetkemeyer
• Jason Smith
• Ann Wagner

Montana

• Greg Gianforte

Nebraska

• Jeff Fortenberry
• Adrian Smith

New Jersey

• Jefferson Van Drew

New York

• Elise Stefanik
• Lee Zeldin

North Carolina

• Dan Bishop
• Ted Budd
• Virginia Foxx
• Richard Hudson
• Greg Murphy
• David Rouzer
• Mark Walker

Ohio

• Bob Gibbs
• Bill Johnson
• Jim "Shirt-sleeves" Jordan
• Robert E. Latta
• Brad Wenstrup

Oklahoma

• Kevin Hern
• Markwayne Mullin

South Carolina

• Jeffrey Duncan
• Ralph Norman
• Tom Rice
• William Timmons
• Joe "You Lie!" Wilson

Tennessee

• Tim Burchett
• Scott DesJarlais
• Chuck Fleischmann
• Mike Green
• David Kustoff
• John Rose

Texas (which filed the lawsuit in the first place)

• Jodey Arrington
• Brian Babin
• Kevin Brady
• Michael C. Burgess
• Michael Cloud
• K. Michael Conaway
• Dead-Eye Dan Crenshaw
• Bill Flores
• Louie Gohmert (the one man who can make Steve Scalise look smart by comparison)
• Lance Gooden
• Kenny Marchant
• Randy Weber
• Roger Williams
• Ron Wright

Virginia

• Ben Cline
• Morgan Griffith
• Robert J. Wittman

Washington

• Cathy McMorris Rodgers
• Dan Newhouse

West Virginia

• Carol Miller
• Alex Mooney