{"id":1179,"date":"2021-11-18T00:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2021-11-18T00:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:54:28","slug":"doug-lamalfa-what-its-like-to-have-an-embarrassing-gop-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Doug LaMalfa — What it\u2019s like to have an embarrassing GOP drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug LaMalfa<\/b><\/p>\n

What it\u2019s like to have an embarrassing GOP drone<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

November 17th<\/sup>, 2021<\/i><\/p>\n

Back in December 2020, Doug LaMalfa, Republican Congressman from California\u2019s first district, was the sole Republican to talk to the press after a frivolous and essentially idiotic lawsuit by Texas to overturn the election was dismissed out of hand by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

In his interview with CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo, the interview quickly turned weird.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You got any proof that anything was done that was fraudulent in any election?” Cuomo asked.<\/p>\n

“You know, I don’t have proof that men landed on the moon in 1969 because I wasn’t there,” LaMalfa replied.<\/p>\n

“Really?” an incredulous Cuomo asked.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” LaMalfa shrugged.<\/p>\n

“Do you believe the world is round?” Cuomo pressed.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ve proven that,” said LaMalfa.<\/p>\n

OK, at least he knows the world is round. That\u2019s a start, I suppose. He makes his living growing rice in one of the most drought-stricken places in America, so you kind of have to expect that he\u2019s going to be a little out of touch about stuff like moon landings or budgets or things like that.<\/p>\n

In the same interview, he said he would not \u201c\u2019recognize Biden’s victory until he is formally sworn in on January 20th.\u2019 LaMalfa’s comments seem to suggest the House GOP is planning on disrupting the ratification of the electoral college results on January 6<\/a>, which is their final chance to contest the election before the inauguration.\u201d Lo and behold, they did. I guess that qualifies as insurrection-light. Dougie is kind of a boutique revolutionary.<\/p>\n

While LaMalfa doesn\u2019t enjoy the notoriety of a Marjorie Taylor-Greene or a Paul Gosar, that in part is because he is from California\u2019s First District. (Look it up. It\u2019s the area on the map that\u2019s covered with the cartographer\u2019s sigil and a sign saying \u201cHyere bee dragons.\u201d Before LaMalfa, the area was California\u2019s 2nd<\/sup> district, and from 1987 to 2013 it was represented by Wally Herger. The region has a history of electing rural non-entities who fail to make any marks on the House.<\/p>\n

After five terms, his committee membership is, to put it mildly, a bit thin: House Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry subcommittee Ranking Member, Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit subcommittees, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Highways and Transit, Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Water Resources and Environment subcommittees<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the primary sponsor of three bills that were enacted, one of which was the renaming of a post office.<\/p>\n

At that, he\u2019s doing better than Herger, who didn\u2019t even get his first committee chair until his seventh term. Herger voted with his party 94.4% of the time, which by GOP standards made him a screaming dissident. (Seriously\u2014in party line votes he ranked 46th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n

On the listing of liberal\/conservative votes, LaMalfa is in a flat tie with Paul Gosar (and now has more committee assignments than Gosar, provided he doesn\u2019t threaten to shoot the President or something.) As a goosestepping GOP fascist, he is extraordinarily good at his job. In recent years, he voted for Trump Care, which would have stripped over 100,000 of his own constituents of medical coverage under Obamacare, and has voted loudly against every bill designed to allow the government to negotiate the prices on drugs they buy for Medicare. He has voted against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, even though a majority of his working constituents would be making less than that had the State of California not already gone ahead and raised the minimum wage on its own. It would not have cost him a dime to support a federal law doing the same thing\u2014it was just gratuitous cruelty on his part.<\/p>\n

He toes the party line on all votes, often contradicting the wishes of his own constituents and sometimes even his own supporters.<\/p>\n

His votes often come with a large helping of hypocrisy. He voted for Trump\u2019s financial stimulus package in 2020 ($1.7 trillion) but against the subsequent aid packages put forth under Biden, even though America\u2019s situation had worsened (a lot of Trump\u2019s bill was allocated for employers to continue paying employees idled by the pandemic, but of course most of them just pocketed the money and screwed their workers over.) But he voted against the Biden stimulus package, $1.9 trillion, which would have funneled an estimated $4 billion into his district, supporting workers, families, and small businesses\u2014including his own. (He\u2019s been whining loudly about how the pandemic and subsequent shipping problems means he can\u2019t sell his rice to China.)<\/p>\n

On the infrastructure bill, he voted no because everyone knows the ungrateful peons in his district don\u2019t need roads, schools, water works, sewers or family support of any kind.<\/p>\n

On that last vote, taken last week, he had a characteristically strange take on it. KRCR, a Sinclair broadcast station that is one of the biggest in this district, interviewed John Garamendi, the Democrat representing the 3rd<\/sup> district, adjoining LaMalfa\u2019s. Garamendi gave the station a list of the benefits and projects the infrastructure bill represented and what it would mean for Northern California.<\/p>\n

So it made sense to get LaMalfa\u2019s take on the just-passed legislation. This is what KRCR reported: “LaMalfa, speaking with KRCR’s Dylan Brown, responded that President Trump has not spoken to him about the matter.”<\/p>\n

OK then. Never mind that LaMalfa is on the Infrastructure committee and might possibly know something about it\u2014anything about it. But what\u2019s this \u201c..President Trump has not spoken to him about the matter.” crap? Trump has no role in this; he\u2019s an ex-president almost certain to be in prison by the time the next presidential election rolls around. Is LaMalfa one of the loony and ignorant morons who thinks Trump is somehow still president? Is he expecting a Trump\/JFK, Jr ticket in 2024? What\u2019s the story here?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, LaMalfa voted twice to acquit Trump of impeachment charges. He voted to not censure Marjorie Taylor-Green, and just today, to not censure the evidently insane Paul Gosar. He does support censuring the 13 Republicans that supported the infrastructure bill, which kind of destroys his claim that it is unwise to censure frivolously.<\/p>\n

With his lockstep support of fascist GOP policies, he is not representing his constituents. With his support of Trumpism and people like Taylor-Greene and Gosar, he isn\u2019t even representing humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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