You
might have gathered that I’m more of a words-and-pictures girl, rather than a
numbers one. But in the wake of Sunday’s mass murder-by-AR-15—and the
completely predictable outpouring of platitudinous “thoughts-and-prayers” from
our spineless Congressmorons—I thought I’d lay a few figures on you.
These
are cumulative totals of top ten recipients of NRA largess in the House and the
Senate, both cash contributions and other monetary support. They were collated
by the New York Times in the wake of
the last mass shooting—hey, only a few weeks ago—in Las Vegas.
You’ll
note that the platitudes vomited forth last month are interchangeable with
those spouted since Sunday; just swap out Las Vegas for Sutherland Springs.
The
Times notes that (as you can see) the
top trough-snorters are all Repugnants; no surprises there, eh? The highest
recipient in the House is Sanford Bishop (Georgia); he ranks 43rd on
the list. The top two Democrats in the Senate are Joe Manchin of West Virginia
and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. They are 52nd and 53rd,
respectively; that’s to say—behind every Republican except for Alaska’s Dan
Sullivan.
So,
you can plainly see why a Replicant-controlled Congress will never pass reasonable gun control
legislation. They even get twisted up in the surreal world of writing off white
men shooting scores of civilians not as terrorism, but as acts of the
mentally-ill—even as they pass legislation that makes it easy for the mentally
ill to buy assault weapons.
The
most we’ll ever get out of this lot is thoughts and prayers, which cost them
nothing, while they deposit the next round of NRA checks.
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