Sounds like 4th grade. How had Rep. Jayapal offended her?
She had asked Rep. Lesko to wear a mask.
I expect Jayapal to stick her tongue out and chant, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Instead Rep. Jayapal accepted an invitation to discuss the exchange on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. How civil.
The next day Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, revealed that he had tested positive for Covid-19 after refusing to wear a mask in the same hearing. (What, it's real? Yes. Duh.)
As a result, Gohmert wasn't allowed to accompany dt on a trip to Texas on Air Force One. But he had already exposed everyone present at the House hearing to his virus-laden breath and spittle.
Today House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a rule requiring anyone in the chamber to wear a mask from now on.
We also learn today that prominent businessman Herman Cain has died of Covid-19 after attending the dt rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a month ago. He had a number of risk factors in his health history, but he chose to give his life for his president. Or for his ego.
Although it is unclear where Cain, who was 74, contracted the disease, he was among several thousand people, most of whom did not wear masks, who attended a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa on June 20. Cain, who co-chaired Black Voices for Trump, was photographed maskless and not socially distancing at the event, report John Wagner, Robert Costa, and Annie Gowen for the Washington Post.
How did we get to the place where masks are signs of political persuasion?
How did the House of Representatives become less civil than a children's school yard?
These are the kinds of things we Americans are suffering through as the seventh month of a terrible year ends.
But all of the above amounts to just footnotes. The big news today was the memorial service for Rep. John Lewis, D - Georgia, who served for more than thirty years. Three former presidents attended--but not dt. He refused.
In fact, he tried to steal the limelight by a shocking tweet during the service:
Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election.
"He should be removed unless he relents," replied Steven G. Calabresi in a column in the New York Times. "That's unconstitutional." Calabresi is a co-founder of the Federalist Society and a professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law.
The 45th prez was not only grabbing attention but insulting Rep. John Lewis, who spent his life working for voting rights for poor and Black Americans.
Or maybe dt tweeted nonsense to distract us from another major news report today:
Second-quarter GDP plunged by worst-ever 32.9% amid virus-induced shutdown.
Either way, we Americans are traumatized by how his fanning of flames, with Russian help, won him the 2016 election. We don't trust the 10-point lead former Vice President Biden has at this point in the 2020 race.
I want to believe that in the next 95 days there's no way this trickster could change the way Americans appear to be planning to vote on November 3.
I want to relax and return to working 9-5 pm on the computer without having to keep cable news on in the background.
Each time I try to keep the television and radio off, he pulls another trick out of his bag. Or the pandemic he fostered hits another incredible total.
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