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“Your fundamental error is to assume that I can be shamed for my obvious hypocrisy.”

29 Monday Aug 2022

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Tom Tomorrow.

Roy Blunt (r) [August 2022 file photo].

A few days ago:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
The Biden administration’s student loan plan is a one-two punch for hardworking Americans. It’s a handout for high-income college & advanced degree graduates paid for by taxpayers who had no part in taking out the loans.
1:24 PM · Aug 24, 2022

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
And, it will drive inflation up even further when families are already struggling w/ skyrocketing costs. The plan will also increase the cost of higher education, making it harder to pursue a degree.
1:24 PM · Aug 24, 2022

Some of the responses:

You didn’t complain when the very wealthy & corporations got a big tax cut under TFG or when Wall Street got bailed out. It’s not a student’s entire debt but also encourages those who benefit to go into public service ex. Help the teacher shortage!
Go cry somewhere else.

Roy, I’m an old woman who’s paid taxes for well over half a century. In recent years that money has subsidized Red states, farmers, PPP loans, a failed wall on the southern border, and paid your salary. I’m delighted with some going to student loan forgiveness.

Wrong and you know it, it’s lies.

It’s always interesting to me how republicans are very quick to criticize & blame but excruciatingly slow /inept/incapable at actually coming up with sensible viable plans to help the American people.
Unless there’s $$$ I it for you you could give a rats ass.

Trump declared bankruptcy 6 times. But OK Roy, you just keep being you.

This is a lie and you know it – cancelling debt means loans are not repaid. It does not change taxpayer payments. Your “handout”tax cuts for the rich and corporations cost more ($2.3 TRILLION vs $298 billion). Show me some truth!

I don’t know what universe you are in when those whose incomes are less than $125K are considered wealthy. Of course forgiving PPP ‘loans’ is totally cool. Then giving $2 trillion in tax breaks to the truly wealthy. Corporate bailouts? Sure. We can surely forgive student loans.

Pell Grant recipients and those earning under $125,000. a year are the only ones that will qualify for the program. If you had funded the Pell Grant program years ago, this program would not be necessary. Republicans don’t like to help the average Americans. Just the rich ones.

Most of the benefit will go to people earning under $75k/year.

You could retire with some dignity, you know. You don’t _have_ to exit the stage with dishonest attempts to make the lives of everyday Americans worse.

Heh. We talkin’ about the same Roy Blunt (r)?

You were totally against PPP loan forgiveness, right?

So misleading. Wish you had the courage to be honest with your constituents now that you aren’t running again. Surely, honesty isn’t going to cost you that high-powered lobbying job waiting for you in DC.

Well, actually…

You’re describing when you gave the richest people in the country massive tax cuts and the poorest got service cuts to balance it.

Do you not hear yourself talking anymore?

Go away Roy, you gave billions to you and your rich friends. I can’t wait until you are as irrelevant as John Danforth! #Missouri #GOPTaxScam #GOPHypocrisy

That one left a mark.

High income people who go to college don’t take out loans.

Roy: We all know if this were really and handout to those with high incomes you’d be claiming it was your idea.

And how many tax cuts for billionaires and corporations that pay zero taxes have you voted for over the years? Go away to your high paying lobbying jobs. You don’t care about working people.

I’m a teacher. In Missouri. I’m not “high income”

You’re just angry it’s not more tax cuts for billionaires which is the only thing you ever vote for

Roy what did you call the tax cut ghat you voted for and signed by Trump giving corporations and millionaires like yourself a tax cut without paying for it.

The tax cut of the last administration mainly benefitted the wealthiest. You supported that and that was monumentally unfair. As is your plans to dismantle social security. Too oft it seems your party ONLY caters to the rich and powerful and undercuts the poor and needy.

“The government is only allowed to forgive the debts of rich people. Everyone knows this. The GOP is dedicated to ensuring governmental relief only goes to people that don’t need it, and the plebes can go die in a ditch where they belong!”

— Roy Blunt, 2022

I’m surprised you took the time to remove your lips from trump’s a$$ to comment on this subject.

That’s a lie, and you know it, but you don’t care do you?

He never has.

Yet trump gave a massive and permanent tax cut to corporations and the super rich. Hypocrite much?

“Pay off your own debt!” says a generation of pundits that went to school when classes were $100 and the minimum wage could finance a mortgage on a 2-bedroom home.

For the love of Pete, who the hell do you think took out the loans trying to get better paying jobs, if not taxpayers, Roy?

You really must think people are very dumb.

He does.

Roy Blunt (r) [August 2022 file photo].

A blue gingham shirt

18 Thursday Aug 2022

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Today at the Missouri State Fair Governor’s Ham Breakfast:

Mark Alford (r) [August 2022 file photo]..

Roy Blunt (r).

Eric Schmitt (r) {August 2022 file photo].

Wait, is that the same shirt?

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Why, yes it is.

Next, the vest:

Mike Kehoe (r) [August 2022 file photo].

Mike Parson (r) [August 2022 file photo}.

Also, blue jeans, big belt, scuffed brown cowboy boots.

Big white hat optional. Read the room first, though…

Billy Long (r) [2021 file photo]

Previously:

Governor’s Ham Breakfast – Missouri State Fair – August 18, 2022 (August 18, 2022)

Still struggling to remain irrelevant

27 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Give us all a brake.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Democrats ignored all the warning signs to ram through a $1.9 trillion partisan spending bill that triggered 9.1% inflation & negative economic growth.
[….]
5:16 PM · Jul 26, 2022

[emphasis added]

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Now, they’re pushing ahead with more spending & tax hikes that will make the situation worse. They need to pump the breaks before they drive the economy off the recession cliff.
5:16 PM · Jul 26, 2022

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Almost every country in the world is experiencing a 9% inflation rate. Is that the result of U.S.spending?

The spending bill is responsible for worldwide inflation?? Or just MAYBE it’s the ongoing war and pandemic?

Gas prices going down, thanks Biden!

You used to teach history

Not an English teacher – pump the breaks?

Them’s the brakes

Thanks Senator for tweeting about this instead of checking on us constituents going thru historical flash flooding on the east side of the state. [….]

And how does this explain the fact that inflation is global?

Roy Blount, professional water boy. Good job walking the party line.

What, exactly, is the GOP plan to deal with inflation? I haven’t seen anything except mean tweets. Do better!

Old Roy is getting forgetful. He forgot about all the tax breaks that Republicans granted to the wealthy and corporations during the Trump years…which laid the groundwork for our inflation. [….]

You need to do your homework before posts like this

You know you’re party’s too far gone which is why you’re slinking away. Your corporate donors thank you for your service to their interests.

Are you talking about the #GOPTaxScam?

Inflation is a world-wide problem so let’s put it in world-wide contexts.

Uh, maybe it has something to do with covid-caused supply chain issues & the war in Ukraine thanks to your buddy Putin? Quit simplifying complex issues that you must not understand.

Really appreciate your concern for the STL area! Too busy lying about inflation to notice the havoc climate change is wreaking.
#GOPTraitors [….]

That spending and only that spending caused the inflation? How so? Why not the Trump tax cuts? How did it cause worldwide inflation?

Maybe you’re just lying, intent on leaving the Senate with no integrity left at all

Horse shit Roy

It’s so easy to lie for you isn’t it?
So pathetic

Omg just stop with the partisan BS. You are thrilled with your fascist party or you would be backing Liz Cheney. You are a corrupt POS.

Inflation is global. Quit lying you POS.
#GaslightObstructProject

Roy Blunt (r) wakes up from another nap…briefly

15 Friday Jul 2022

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Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday afternoon:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Democrats’ misguided “spend, spend, spend” policies have gotten us to the point – inflation is at a nearly 41-year high.
3:42 PM · Jul 14, 2022

There was no mercy in the comments:

Please identify three examples of the “spend, spend, spend” policies you would stop RIGHT NOW.

That would be the Trump Tax Cut for the Rich. #TaxBillionaires

You built this, Roy.

Trump increased the deficit. Biden lowered the deficit. Try again.

I remember those necessary Trump Tax Cuts. [….]

You built this, Roy.

#BluntBot is active again. What set it off?

Perhaps it was recognition that inflation is up world-wide, so this talking point has to be beaten into the ground to cover for how little explanatory power it actually has.

Inflation is above 9% in Europe. It is a global phenomenon, and not the fault of @POTUS or the Democrats.

Lol. Tax cuts are also expenditures, pal.

You built this, Roy.

Dont forget supply chain disruption, labor shortages due to the woefully inadequate minimum wage and millions from the workforce who died or disabled due to covid, the impact of embargoing Russian oil on the WORLD economy and record profits of the oil companies.

Just to name a few things.

And yet corporate profits are at an all-time high and Missouri is poor. Maybe this is a bipartisan issue? Or is that too sensible of an idea for the “free-thinking” moderates of Missouri?

Also tax cuts, the pandemic, supply/demand issues, price gouging; inflation is a global issue.

Break down the numbers for us, Roy. Take us into the weeds.

That’s neither accurate,nor how inflation works. Go back to your data.

Remember that bigass tax cut you voted for during the last administration?

It’s not the Dems or Biden! Inflation is up world-wide due to a lot of issues that are out of the control of anyone in power, otherwise I’m sure you and your colleagues would have suggestions on how to fix it, right?!?!? No, just talking points??
#Hypocrite

Let’s discuss the effect of that huge tax cut for the rich y’all did. F’ing clown.

You built this, Roy.

You’re a damn liar.

Inflation is up all over the world.

Just go away and retire already.

Liar.

Heh.

When a political hack starts to believe his own hype

15 Wednesday Jun 2022

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“…The fairness doctrine took effect shortly after the creation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) in 1927 and was continued by its successor, the FCC, until the late 1980s. In its 1929 Great Lakes Broadcasting Co. decision, the FRC asserted that the “public interest requires ample play for the free and fair competition of opposing views, and the Commission believes that the principle applies to all discussions of issues of importance to the public….”

The Fairness Doctrine died in 1987 when Ronald Reagan (r) was in office.

“…On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overruling an earlier decision, Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce (Austin), that allowed prohibitions on independent expenditures by corporations. The Court also overruled the part of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission that held that corporations could be banned from making electioneering communications….”

Where Roy Blunt (r) tries to pretend he’s never heard of Citizens United or the Fairness Doctrine:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
It’s hard to have truly fair elections when large email platforms are deciding which messages can easily reach voters and which get buried in a spam folder.
3:40 PM · Jun 15, 2022

What’s the matter Roy, you can’t buy any stamps or newspapers?

Some of the responses:

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when $20 Billion is being spent just on political campaigns ensuring divisive & emotionally charged messaging can easily reach voters. Time to revoke Citizens United & shine a blinding light on Dark Money contributions.

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when large mobs are deciding to usurp voters by seeking to bury the vice president.

Trust me when I say that the contents of my SPAM folder were never the reason that I didn’t vote for you.

Perhaps my emails to you to get your thoughts on common sense gun control in Missouri HAVE gotten stuck in your SPAM box, though, since I sure haven’t heard back from you.

You going to complain about dial-up speeds next? Gas prices, milk prices, and spam emails. So glad I have a senator who’s focused on solving the biggest problems of 1998

Try a decade before that.

It’s hard to have truly fair elections when you put obstacles in the way of voting, and put people in positions of power whose stated purpose is to only verify results where Republicans win.

How about when one side storms the capitol to overthrow the results of the election?

Distract and deflect…. What does the 1/6 committee have on you? Might your name be coming up?

Restore the Fairness Doctrine and help cure the evils of Fox News

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Maybe if your messages are going to spam your messages are spammy bullshit.

So you don’t understand how it works

Also when the nra buys the allegiance of a Senator like you. #ComplicitCorruptGOP

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Feckless coward

08 Wednesday Jun 2022

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Who else, right?

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Today, I discussed the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, and the importance of expanding access to mental health care.
[….]
5:01 PM · Jun 7, 2022

Some of the responses:

You’ve accepted over 4 million from the NRA to remain mute on guns.

You voted to repeal the ACA and take mental healthcare away from people. There was no replacement. Only repeal. [….]

BLUNT VOTES TO MOVE FORWARD ON BILL TO REPEAL & REPLACE OBAMACARE
July 25, 2017

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement after voting to begin debate on House-passed legislation that would repeal and replace Obamacare. The Senate now has the opportunity to consider amendments to the measure before it comes to a final vote.

“Obamacare has left Missouri families with higher costs, fewer options, and less access to quality health care,” Blunt said. “With today’s vote, I’m glad the Senate is moving forward with debate on the House-passed bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. All senators will now have the opportunity to offer amendments and look at ways we can improve the final product. My hope is that we will be able to find common ground on solutions that meet the needs of Missourians, and create a more stable and reliable health care system.”

What about common sense gun legislation? You aren’t up for re-election. Speak out. It’s time for some courage @RoyBlunt

See above.

You’ve consistently voted against gun safety legislation and expanding mental health resources while taking $4,500,000+ from the NRA. [….]

Too bad people experiencing mental health issues are more likely to be VICTIMS of gun violence rather than perpetrators
What about easy access to guns?Because that’s the ONE THING we have that’s different from anywhere else.
What will you do about America’s Gun Violence epidemic?

So the party always pushing cuts in social services and mental health care is expected to be seen as the party that understands the importance of expanding access to mental health care. Delicious.

Expanding mental health services wouldn’t have prevented the Uvalde school shooting.
It’s not too late for you to do the right thing and support common sense gun laws.

What about #AssaultWeaponsBan , expanded #backgroundchecks and enhanced #RedFlagLaws ? We need these measures to #StopGunViolence . Every nation in the world has citizens with mental health problems; no other nation has our level of #GunViolence .

Your legacy will be tied to future mass shootings with newly acquired AR-15’s. Live with that in your retirement. You had a chance to make a difference.

Do Americans have more mental health issues than any other country? No, in fact, we don’t. The difference is easy access to assault rifles. Please address the real problem!

Stop. It’s the unfettered access to guns and you know it

Expanding access to mental health care is good, but it’s not a replacement for actually addressing the problem – there are too many guns on the streets, and they are too powerful.

Don’t exploit mental health to enable mass murder.

For the love of Pete, your State, Missouri, is 51st in Mental Healthcare access and would do less if it could. This isn’t serious. It’s the guns.

Does he think the Uvalde shooter wanted access to mental healthcare, but couldn’t get it?

Ok so what bills are you sponsoring or supporting that does such a thing? ACA? Medicaid expansion? CHIP? Where’s that Trump healthcare that was supposed to be “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic”?

How about some gun safety laws? Do you not care if children are shot at school? Do you not care if people are shot in a church or grocery store? Think about what you can do as a senator to make Missourians safer while they go about their daily lives.

What a brave stance… that no one opposes, doesn’t hurt your finances, and doesn’t meaningfully address school shootings.

No one thought you’d risk future lobbyist dollars/rubles for the safety of school children.

We see what you did there.

So, you’re sticking with *Thoughts & Prayers* #WhatsYourLegacy

Roy, Roy, Roy.
Stop it. You know, I know, all countries have mental health issues. Other countries have universal health care. BUT dude, none of those other countries have mass killings because none of those other countries allow citizen, especially 18 y/o, to buy assault rifles.

Unfortunately, it’s the expanded access to weapons of war that is the reason for the gun violence in our country.

He knows that. He doesn’t care.

Yes, we have heard this song and dance many times before. Please just be honest and say that the gop will never oppose the nra.

The NRA has contributed millions of dollars to Missouri’s senators. Sen. Roy Blunt is the fourth-largest NRA benefactor in Congress, with more than $4.5 million in help since 1996, and Sen. Josh Hawley is the 12th, approaching $1.4 million in contributions in just four years.

Now what about passing gun safety reform?

Good idea. Because the US is the only country in the world with mental health problems, which explains why it’s the only country in the world with regular mass shootings. Thanks, Roy!

Wait one minute! This is not the first mass shooting. It is NOT the first time you (and Republican) have used mental health as an excuse. Please tell me, what have YOU done, in all these years, to, even once, increase/improve mental health treatment, just one, I’ll wait.

This message brought to you by @RoyBlunt a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gun Manufacturing Lobby.

“No number of dead school children is too high a price to pay.”

Guns! It’s the Guns Roy! If I can’t drive an Indy car 300 mph to the grocery store, Jim Bob doesn’t need an AR 15 to shoot varmit

Narrator: “It was never about the varmints.”

It’s the guns.

Do the right thing, Roy. It’s already too late for many sweet innocent children. Enact common sense gun regulations.

It’s Roy Blunt (r). It’s not gonna happen.

ROY. IT’S THE GUNS.

This is nothing but a smoke screen. Tougher gun laws are needed. Why does anyone need an AR-15? They don’t! These guns need to be banned. This is a weak answer to this epidemic.

On behal

f of those of us in the mental health field, we’ll believe it when we see it.

Narrator: “They never did.”

That’s terrific, @royblunt. Now do guns

$4.5 million from the NRA.

Which roughly translated as “blah blah blah, not going to do anything about it, blah blah 2nd amendment, blah blah, ya still not going to do anything about it

It’s
The
Guns

Coward.

Translator: Today I did absolutely nothing to combat the issue of gun violence in America. Thank you. Now if you will excuse me I have some NRA donations to count.

It’s the guns.

We see who you are.

It’s not mental healthcare…it’s the guns.FFS.

Way to deflect from the real problem, ya know… the guns.

4 million dollars sure is worth other peoples kids dying though huh?

4 MILLION from the NRA! #NRABloodMoney

GFY

And you’ll more than likely vote no on any gun bill that goes to the Senate. Gotta keep the NRA happy. Right, Roy?

JFC

Guns are the problem but you just can’t walk away from that good ol NRA cash. How many kids have to die before you have enough money?

It’s the guns. No matter how many millions you take from the NRA, it’s the guns. @RoyBlunt

FU

Did you ask discuss the millions $ the NRA has given you. Or as I like to call it your pivot payment. Pivot to anything other than guns, am I right Senator?

Is this a joke? What about guns?????

#ItsTheGunsStupid #GunControlNow

It’s the guns Roy. You are complicit in the piles of dead children. YOU.

That alone won’t solve the problem. You’re not interested in doing anything.

And on and on.

Sadly, still the truth

29 Sunday May 2022

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March 24, 2018 – Kansas City, Missouri:

“The only thing easier to buy than a gun is a republican senator.”

WHICH SENATORS HAVE TAKEN THE MOST NRA MONEY?

Roy Blunt (MO) $4,555,722

Josh Hawley (MO) $1,391,548

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

Once an apparatchik, always an apparatchik

25 Monday Apr 2022

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No surprise here.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Last night:

Will Saletan @saletan
Follow-up on CNN:

Q: “Why is Trump’s push to overturn the election result—and his continued insistence the election was stolen—not an automatic disqualifier?”

@RoyBlunt: “He can have his own opinion. That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”
8:58 PM · Apr 24, 2022

Just one issue, eh? Evidently insurrection isn’t a deal breaker.

Some of the responses:

It’s not just that he thinks the election was stolen. It’s what he did in the lead-up to January 6th and everything that’s come after. How can Blunt think that’s not disqualifying?

And its such a minor issue: whether to accept the results of a legitimate election.

Embarrassing blunts in Congress:
1. whatever was in Cawthorn’s hands in that video
2. Roy

Jeebus.

The definition of insanity.

“That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”

WTH?
Faith in US elections isn’t ONE ISSUE
Faith in our electoral process is the basis of consent of the governed

Blunt was allowed to skate on both shows

@MeetThePress & @CNN both screwed the pooch

Roy Blunt, you are a coward.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

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08 Friday Apr 2022

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Historical.

Roll Call Vote 117th Congress – 2nd Session
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Vote Number: 134
Vote Date: April 7, 2022, 01:53 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2Vote
Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN1783
Nomination Description: Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Vote Counts:
YEAs 53
NAYs 47
[….]
Blunt (R-MO), Nay
Hawley (R-MO), Nay
[….]

[emphasis added]

On the wrong side of history, again:

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

We should expect more. Unfortunately, we can’t.

Previously:

A Yale law degree doesn’t have much of a cachet these days… (March 18, 2022)

Incomprehensible word salad (April 3, 2022)

Incomprehensible word salad

03 Sunday Apr 2022

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Not that we’re surprised.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Today:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
There is no doubt Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is well qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. However, her judicial philosophy is not one I can support.
10:26 AM · Apr 3, 2022

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
With every Supreme Court nomination, I look at two things: (1) is the nominee qualified; and (2) are they guided by a judicial philosophy that a judge ought to apply the law and the Constitution as they are written.
10:26 AM · Apr 3, 2022

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
While I will vote no on Judge Jackson’s confirmation, I believe her historic nomination is a proud moment for our country. [….]
10:26 AM · Apr 3, 2022

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Can’t have it both ways. Your statement clearly states that it is always politics over country.

You cannot have this both ways. If you think she is qualified, vote to confirm. Otherwise, you are blocking her historic nomination and have no claim to celebrate it.

You do not get to play this both ways, sorry. What about Amy Coney Barrett made her so qualified? Kavangh? You simply do not want to see change of this nature. Your perspective is exactly why I am no longer a republican after 40 yrs of voting.

Jesus H Christ.

Always party over country. Always.

So she’s qualified and her nomination is a proud moment for the country. But one that you don’t support? You can’t be proud for this moment in our history if you’re on the wrong side of it.

Blunt had a chance to support qualified, brilliant black judge and make history in a good way.
Trump Senator Blunt failed

Good to see you’re holding the Republican line to the end. No one could claim you bring an independent thinker, Mitch raised you well.

The former guy has you well trained in double speak. None of what you say makes any sense. Why didn’t you just say “I will not vote for her”. PERIOD.

Funny, Clarence Thomas meets the criteria for being removed from the bench and was never qualified to be nominated for associate justice to begin with.
So there’s that.

“I believe her historic nomination is a proud moment for our country.” NO YOU DON’T.

You just defend “#Hypocrisy” for all time.

You embarrass me as a Missourian

Coward

Judicial philosophy? Bullshit…you won’t vote for her because she’s black, female, and a whole helluva lot smarter and more principled than you are.

Yet another politician, trying to play “both sides of the street”. An activity that so many politicians are proficient at. In fact, it may be their most common ‘talent’. Apparently, Mr. Blunt is so out of touch with rationality, that he thinks that his doubletalk is reasonable.

You have no honor, sir. I guess you didn’t see her hearing. She did not define her judicial philosophy other than to say that it is a methodology. She wouldn’t let the Republicans define her and then use that against her. Not voting for her is sheer meanness and bad politics.

Coward, hypocrite

It also means that your “no” vote is a disgraceful moment for our country.

We didn’t expect YOU to vote for her. So this isn’t new. You had your mind made up well before she was nominated. It would be a no for anyone nominated by President Biden. And that’s the real truth. I can’t wait till you’re gone.

This is the stupidest thing you could possibly write.

Utterly useless for Missouri.

Yada Yada Yada. Of course you’re voting no. You don’t have permission from Mitch. #Spineless

Schmuck

Roy, you are a hypocrite. Judge Jackson is highly qualified for this appointment. Her previous roles were for a life-time appointment. You cannot celebrate this “proud” moment if you were not part of it. You voted for whining/sniveling Kavanaugh. You are a political hack.

Just stop it… “U will vote no, but “it’s a proud moment for our country” Pure garbage. If you really thought it was proud, it would make sense that you voted yes. Stop playing American people for fools.

Sounds like you expect a judge to use their political views to make their decisions. Also sounds like you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Talking out of both sides of your mouth. Pathetic.

You are an embarrassment

You’re a fraud. My only regret with you finally leaving the Senate is that I won’t be able to vote against you again.

You are a disgrace.

What a jackass. It is politicians like Roy Blunt, who’s clownish attempts to have it both ways are disgraceful, that have given charlatan con men such as Donald Trump the opening, or vacuum of competency and honesty that they needed, in order to attract their own followers.

But, alas, it is certainly not a “proud moment” for Roy Blunt, who has shown publicly that what is of greatest importance to him is not loyalty to the United States, or fair play, but instead, his own blind servitude to the Republican Party. Another cynical, corrupt politician.

You’re less than worthless

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