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Midnight Meme Of The Day!
by NoahSunday Thoughts:AOC is a witch? Ah, the Republican mind! It idles stuck on Bizarro World where love is hate and hate is love unrevealed. How else to explain their bizarre, dark (and potentially dangerous) obsession with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? How else to explain Repug Christonuts making themselves the Devil's Workshop and projecting their inner demons as a lame explanation of the existence and behavior of others.
Likeliest Congressional One Termers
Robert Dold, GOP freshman in the bluest district Steve Israel managed to loseThis morning, Roll Call ran a short list of the likeliest congressional one-termers. It wasn't based on the likelihood of whacked out extremists saying something blatantly insane.
Who Voted Against Militarizing The Local Police-- And Who Was Just Fine With It?
I saw a lot of coverage of Ferguson, Missouri in the last few days. But I didn't see any photos of Georgia Republican congressional candidate Jody Hice. Hice never showed up-- or maybe he was hiding under something.
Not Your Father's Republican Party-- Meet Jody Hice, Who Wants A Bazooka In Every Home
John Birch Society stalwart and former drug addict Paul Broun has widely been considered Congress' most extreme Member. He ran in the May Georgia Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate nomination and lost miserably, failing to even crack 10%. But in his own north central Georgia district, GA-10-- stretching from just east of Atlanta to just west of August and from Athens in the north and Milledgeville in the south-- he's pretty popular. The Democrats didn't bother running anyone against him in 2012. The district has a PVI of R+14 and Obama only managed 36%.
Today At The Races: Georgia
It's another vile lesser of two evils election in Georgia today. Neither Jack Kingston nor David Perdue is fit for any public office, let alone for the U.S. Senate. But, then again, neither was Saxby Chambliss, the imbecile who's resigning the seat. The Republican primary itself was May 20 and the top 5 candidates didn't generate much enthusiasm: