Here’s why we should praise unhinged Sen. Rogers
Not long ago, Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers, the unhinged Arizona lawmaker running the joint Senate Elections and House Municipal Oversight & Elections committees, welcomed the testimony of an unhinged woman making unhinged accusations about bribery and connections to a drug cartel against the governor, the county supervisors, Maricopa County judges and even against the unhinged lawmakers who invited her.
Now, Republicans in the Legislature are suffering from ligament damage and tendon injuries from all the finger pointing.
Meantime, members of the press, other elected officials, social media respondents and the vast majority of, you know, sane people, condemned this one-flew-over-the-cuckoo’s-nest extravaganza as a horrible way for politicians to behave.
I understand where they’re coming from but ... they are wrong.
Rogers and the rest of her mad mob should be celebrated, not condemned. Seriously, celebrated.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, Montini has lost his marbles.
The truth is, a person cannot have spent his adult life toiling away in the paragraph factory that is a daily newspaper and not have misplaced an Aggie or two, or had a precious Cat’s Eye knocked out of the circle. Still, in this instance, most of my marbles are accounted for and my opinion is sound ... ish.
Rogers and her conspiracy crazed Republican cohorts are doing exactly what they promised they would do and, unwittingly, exactly what those of us with sound minds should want them to do. Which is — nothing.
They can rant about all the debunked conspiracies they want. They can hold all the hearings they want. They can propose all the bizarre, irrational,
irresponsible election bills they want. In the end, they will come away with – you guessed it – nothing. Think about it.
These people could be working on actual legislation with actual consequences, God forbid. Instead, they’re still obsessing on debunked election fraud, even after their own debunked accusations have been revealed.
Not long ago, state Attorney General Kris Mayes released an investigative report and two internal memos from 2022, information that should have been released by then-Attorney General Mark Brnovich, since it found that the exhaustive investigation by Brnovich’s office “did not uncover any criminality or fraud.”
It also noted that Brnovich’s agents said that neither Sen. Rogers nor Republican Sen. Sonny Borrelli, her election-denying buddy, offered any evidence to substantiate their claims of election fraud.
It doesn’t matter to them.
They are the flat Earthers of politics. Astronauts circling the Earth cannot convince them the world is round. Nor a lunar eclipse. Nor the way ships disappear over the horizon from the bottom as they slip over the curvature of the Earth.
These particular politicians are not in the problem solving business. They are in the problem causing business.
And that is what they’re doing. They’re causing problems.
For other Republicans.
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