Do your job. That’s what attendees of a town hall conducted by Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz shouted at him last week.
The crowd is upset that the congressman has failed to hold the president accountable for his hateful and dangerous policies. The funny thing is neglecting to do his job didn’t begin after Trump was sworn into office. Chaffetz has spent the bulk of his time engaging in pointless investigations into Benghazi and Planned Parenthood, and trying to end legal marijuana and gay marriage in the nation’s capital.
Chaffetz later accused the crowd of being paid protesters and said he may not provide a venue in the future for “radicals” to further intimidate him. The snowflake provided no proof anyone was paid to attend, shout, and harass him.
I’m on a lot of political mailing lists for conservatives and liberals. Every week someone invites me to join political groups, events, and protests. I hear a lot but I’ve yet to be offered any money to attend a protest or hear from anyone who has. What up with dat?
Despite doing it pro bono, people are showing up to Republican town halls to yell “do you job,” “shame,” and to question their representatives. And to Chaffetz’s credit, at least he actually showed up.
Other Republicans have scheduled town halls and have failed to show up or they have sneaked out the back after seeing they weren’t going to be greeted with cheers and showered with adoration.
If nothing else they could always do what Donald Trump does and make up numbers and claim everyone present was there to cheer them. Though Trump is into a different kind of showering.
Democrats are trying to emulate the Tea Party in building a base for the midterm elections. There’s just one problem with that and it’s the fact Democrats are lazy during midterms. Conservatives are very loyal to the GOP, even when they throw out their incumbents for newer scarier Republicans (How ya’ doing, Eric Cantor? I miss drawing you). Liberals aren’t as loyal to the Democratic Party. A great many of them are independent and feel burned by the party. Go ask a Bernie supporter how he feels about Hillary’s candidacy or Debbie Wasserman Schultz (I miss drawing her).
Another issue is that during the 2018 midterm elections there are 33 seats up for election. Currently 23 of those belong to Democrats and two independents who caucus with the Dems. Republicans only have nine. A lot of these, even for the Democrats, are in states that voted not only for Trump in 2016, but for Romney in 2012.
I expect the Democrats to make gains in the House but they can actually lose seats in the Senate. Even if the Republicans burn the nation to the ground before then.
Creative notes: You gotta know this cartoon is a Blues Brother reference. Just in case you don’t (what’s wrong with you?) I will explain. Warning! Spoilers ahead (and I still haven’t seen Rogue One).
The Blues Brothers steal a gig from a country band at Bob’s Country Bunker, and they tell Bob they are the “Good Ole Boys” band. Bob’s Country Bunker features both kinds of music, “Country” and “western.” As the boys go into their first song, which is neither “country” nor “western,” the crowd becomes rowdy and starts throwing beer bottles at the band. Fortunately for the band the stage is erected behind a protective layer of chicken wire.
The boys appease the crowd by playing the “Theme To Rawhide” and “Stand By Your Man.” The audience loves it yet they continue to hurl bottles at the band.
When I played in bands I never had to play behind chicken wire or dodge beer bottles. But I have been in the predicament The Blues Brothers found themselves in at the end of the night where the band actually owes the bar money because of all the beer they drank. However my bands have always paid the tab and didn’t finish the evening with a high-speed chase pursued by an RV full of angry Good Ole Boys.
I anger and get pursued by good ole boys for other reasons.
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Perhaps we should try this attention-getting bottle flinging tactic with elected Democrats as well. They don’t seem to be working for the good of We The People either. Near as I can tell, with a scant handful of exceptions, both Republicans AND Democrats holding elected office seem to be treating their so-called “jobs” more as a license to enrich themselves via the largess of lobbyists for the obscenely wealthy and less as a trusted employee hired to work for the benefit of the country as a whole.
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Couldn’t happen to a better target than Chaffetz. He’s been working on overturning local laws in DC and the DC’s government’s spending of its own tax money on things DC voters have voted for, such as same-sex marriage, medical marijuana, and now assisted suicide. Unfortunately DC is basically a colony, with no vote in Congress and yet Congress can step in and nullify its laws. (I’m glad I live in Maryland and not over the line in DC or I’d be angrier on a daily basis than I am now.) Another example of GOPs being all for “local control” until the locals do something they don’t like, such as trying to control their own lives and their own dying.
But anybody opposing him must be a “paid protestor.” Like Trump, he thinks it’s impossible that anybody, on their own, could hate what he’s doing and not doing. He needs a lot more protestors… and I love it that some of them have been sending him invoices for their “paid protest.”
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