Great photographs tell stories. Think about the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square, captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt on V-J Day, or Dorothea Lange's close-up of the weary "Migrant Mother" in the 1930s Dust Bowl. They've become symbols of the country's experience of World War II and the Great Depression.
We don't know who took this photo of Gym Jordan today. But we want to find out, because it says so much about the GOP's self-destruction — and Jordan's well-deserved humiliation.
Not to treat this Republican chaos as anything close to normal, but it has to be said that in even in a process as ugly as this, Jordan was an uber-ugly candidate. And so were his tactics, whether he personally directed them — as we're sure he did with Sean Hannity — or just inspired them. Either way, his Congressional colleagues didn't appreciate being threatened and bullied.
(Of course, they've always seemed untroubled by bullying when they weren't the targets themselves. Did any of these Republicans speak up in defense of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in Georgia? Surely not.)
Anyway, Gym is out and the GOP clown show continues. But hey, what else have they got to do? Just fund stuff like Israel, Ukraine and the southern border, and keep the government from shutting down in a month. Memo to the American people: This is the crap you get when you put people who hate government in charge. It's dangerous, destructive, and a farce, and we cats HISS.
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