.MaddowBlog: The Republican Study Committee urged GOP officials to 'lean into the culture war' and it''s a message Sen. Ted Cruz appears to have taken to heart.
or retweeted Big Bird attacks at least nine times over the next couple of days, which was substantially more tweets than he offered about a mass-casualty event in Houston this weekend."After taking aim at "Sesame Street" character Big Bird for urging kids to get inoculated against COVID-19 over the weekend, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz mocked Democratic bigwig Hillary Clinton's sartorial choices in a photo showing the vaccine-promoting pair standing together.
The Sesame Street bruhaha will soon fade, but the Texan will have scored a few points with his party's base, and he'll probably end up with a slightly larger social media presence than he had before complaining about Big Bird's efforts to help children during a pandemic. He'll probably see a bump in fundraising, too.
On the contrary, when a small percentage of GOP lawmakers voted for a popular and sensible infrastructure plan, those Republicans wereThe problem is not that the Republican Party cares about culture-war distractions; the problem is. There's no shortage of substantive challenges facing the nation, and the GOP isn't prepared to offer substantive solutions to any of them, too often preferring fights with Muppets.
Vote for Republicans and they'll pass a ban abortion. Vote for Republicans and they'll create new laws to prevent marriage equality. Vote for Republicans and they'll mandate English as the official language. And so on.
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