Republicans have potties on their mind

What the hell is wrong with the Republican Party, and why have they gone, as Lindsay Graham once said, "bat-shit crazy"?

I've referenced a couple of stories here. In one, the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department on Monday each filed suit against the other over that state's "bathroom law." In the other, the lieutenant governor of Texas called for the resignation of the Fort Worth school superintendent because he implemented a policy that lets students use the restroom of the gender they self-identify with.

I have to agree with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch here on a couple of counts. First, laws like the one in North Carolina (being pushed nationwide by the Liberty Counsel) that require transgendered people to use the restroom of the gender on their birth certificate are nothing more than "state-sponsored discrimination."

And on a more practical level -- can anyone point out even ONE instance where a transgendered person sexually assaulted a woman in a women's restroom somewhere? Even one? As Lynch also noted, this is a radical solution for a problem that doesn't even exist!!!

And how are we going to enforce this? Is someone going to check birth certificates at restroom doors? Or genitalia? Or are we all going to have to carry a gender identity card?

It's idiotic and smacks of nothing more than desperation revenge for the Supreme Court's marriage ruling. And here in Texas, our Republican lawmakers can't go low enough in pandering to the state's rabidly crazy right wing.

I was gone for a couple of weeks, and during my departure, Donald Trump wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination. Republican voters may be mad (and crazy) as hell, but at least they weren't crazy enough to nominate Ted Cruz. Thank heaven for small miracles!!!

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By BearinFW | 05/10/2016 01:03 AM | 11 comments
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  • Nice pic... Now only if it were a full toilet... I'd have fun dumping on Drag Donald...
    OCalig 05/15/2016 09:17 PM
  • ......
    fenwaydav 05/14/2016 01:51 PM
  • Largely because of turnout issues, we are at a point where the Republican Party dominates during off-year elections, because of their lower turnout, and the Democrats dominate during presidential elections because of their higher turnout. Reality is that a lot of the key Democratic constituencies just don't turn out to vote with regularity. GOP knows this, so they try to throw up as many impediments to voter turnout as they can. (Such as Voter ID laws.)
    BearinFW 05/13/2016 03:58 AM
  • Somewhat I guess... I just keep hearing talking heads yap on about it, but to me it's starting to turn into those "Jesus is coming" predictions at this point. As a former Pentecostal, I remember those end of the world predictions since my junior high days...

    It's kinda deja vu now... GOP won *more* seats after a gov't shutdown and a lot of frustration? Where were the (blue leaning) talking heads who predicted their downfalls a year before?
    OCalig 05/12/2016 06:32 AM
  • matureblktopman: Yes, we often hear that anyone can grow up to be president of the United States, but that's only true to a point. Yeah, maybe if you can get into Harvard or Yale law school. But let's be honest: There are very real economic, class, and minority and to some degree gender barriers. The odds of any individual becoming president (there have only been 44) are astronomically small, but they are even smaller yet if you don't come from wealth and privilege.

    As for this year's election: The GOP has been headed for a showdown for a number of years. I don't know if this year is it, but if it's not, it's damned close. There is an enormous gulf in the party between the ideological puritans and the old money/economic GOP.

    OCalig: I hope that answered your question on the party fracturing. I think a split in the GOP is going to happen. Whether that will be this year or not is an open question. Trump *may* be able to hold most of the party together, but the GOP is just way too ideologically divided to keep it together as has been the case for the past 30 years for much longer. The nuts are on the verge of taking over the nut house, if they haven't already. If Ted Cruz were the nominee, that would definitely be the case. Trump may wind up being a bridge candidate. We'll see.
    BearinFW 05/12/2016 04:11 AM
  • I grew up hearing often that anyone no matter race creed color or religion could become president of the USA....2008 that happened...a non white male got elected to be pres and it seemed a large part of the country had a nervous breakdown...how painful it is to watch whats happening in my beloved America....." sigh "
    matureblktopman 05/11/2016 06:24 PM
  • Bear: How much stock do you put in the idea of the party fracturing?
    OCalig 05/11/2016 01:25 PM
  • matureblktopman: God I hope even Trump knows better than that. Cruz would be a drag on the ticket, and being from solidly red Texas, brings nothing to the table except *maybe* making the religious right happy.

    Chris Christie would appear to be the odds-on favorite to be the VP candidate, but you never know -- especially with Trump!!!

    BTW, the Fort Worth school superintendent told the Lieutenant governor, basically, to mind his own business. And for the most part the people of Fort Worth appear to support him. There are pockets of sanity. Even in Texas!!!
    BearinFW 05/11/2016 12:34 AM
  • the insanity has only just begun
    BDGF 05/10/2016 06:54 PM
  • its possible that Trump may nominate Cruz as his VP running mate....." sigh "
    matureblktopman 05/10/2016 02:20 PM
  • As dreadful as Trump is, Cruz gives me the willies. I'm so glad he's out of the race. I can only hope that voters in Texas wise up and send him packing....somewhere!
    furball 05/10/2016 01:46 PM