Welcome my friends to Paddlin Upstream's semi-regular review of highly irregular behavior by people inexplicably elected to make decisions for the rest of us. It's time for another edition of Politicians Gone Loco.
This week the Senate voted individually on 3 nominations for very high ranking military positions, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These individual votes are being taken to break a logjam created by one lone Senator. That logjam is the approval of hundreds of military promotions which traditionally have been done in blocks due to the sheer numbers.
Tommy Tuberville has single handedly blocked military promotions since last February protesting a health policy for military personnel. You've got to be pretty deranged to get in the way of national defense and insult deserving military servants in this manner simply because you think you have a right to make health calls for women.
This guy is in the U.S. Senate.
Speaking of making health decisions for others, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis actually rejected the latest CDC recommendations for the new Covid vaccine and will not follow the protocols the other 49 states have adopted.
DeSantis made his bones on the anti-vax train which puts him right up there with deep thinkers like Robert Kennedy and Kyrie Irving. Despite anything these guys claim, the evidence makes one thing clear. The Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective in keeping people alive.
This isn't surprising for DeSantis. He's already inserted himself into women's and children's health decisions in his state and has fantasies of putting a foot on the whole country.
This guy is a governor of a state.
Somewhere in DC a Kentuckian just trying to be relevant is taking a major role in the impeachment inquiry called for by a serial adulterer sitting under more indictments than Baskin-Robbins has flavors. Unfortunately James Comer (rhymes with Gomer) manages to capture one of our bad stereotypes every time he gets in front of a camera. Just like the guy he takes his orders from, things that aren't true tumble awkwardly from his lips each time he opens his mouth.
He sits in the U.S. House of Representatives with our last bad example.
Imagine you decide to take your kids to see Beetlejuice - The Musical. You've made sure they understand the rules of the theater...turn off the phone, no vaping (your kids don't vape but they should know), no talking or throwing gum, and, most important of all, no fondling the private parts of the person sitting next to you. Now imagine you've done all this and your seats are next to Lauren Boebert.
In pure you can't make this stuff up fashion, the Representative from Colorado managed to get herself videotaped doing all those things and more before being kicked out of the performance. She highlighted her rampage by calling a pregnant woman a "sad and miserable person".
Boebert apologized in true fashion by blaming her date who turned out to be a Democrat.
She, like the others, is actively making decisions and laws for us all. She and her colleagues will soon shut down the government claiming moral obligation.
It's not just the politicians who've gone loco.