Mudline August 9, 2022
August 9, 2022
........Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on GOP blocking burn pit bill to aid vets: "Total bullshit."....Jon Stewart: "Congratulations, Sen. Toomey. You successfully used the Byzantine Senate rules to keep sick veterans suffering...The Senate is where accountability goes to die."....Alan Dershowitz on 1/6 hearings: "A Fraud, and a disgrace to America."....former Trump WH aide Garrett Ziegler, after testifying before 1/6 committee: "They're Bolsheviks, so they probably do hate the American founders and most White people in general."....Freudian-slip-tweet by House Republicans right after 7/21 hearing: "This is all heresy."....Clare McCaskill on Trump during afternoon of 1/6: "He was holed up in his dining room drinking a Coke like a big baby."....Rep. Matt Gaetz: "Our America is proudly ultra-MAGA, not some low-energy roadside RINO safari...Mike Pence will never be president."....former Pence chief of staff Marc Short in response: "I'd be surprised if he was still voting. It's more likely he'll be in prison for child sex trafficking in 2024."....Sen. Ted Cruz on DOJ: "Has turned into the partisan attack dog of the Biden White House."....Aaron Rupar: "Do you ever think about how Texas has 29 million people and yet they ended up with Ted Cruz and John Cornyn as its US senators, or is it just me?"....Fox host Tucker Carlson on Dems: "The great replacement? It's not a conspiracy theory. It's their election strategy."....Media Matters senior fellow Matthew Gertz: "The difference between a Tucker Carlson monologue and a white supremacist mass murderer's manifesto is the Tucker Carlson monologue gets aired in prime-time on the nation's most-watched cable news network."....Trump on 1/6 testimony of former WH official Sarah Matthews: "'15 Minutes of Fame Matthews,' who I don't know, is clearly lying."....Trump on Rep. Liz Cheney: "A sanctimonious loser."....Trump on Jake "Fake" Tapper: "So biased and pathetic. No wonder CNN's ratings are at an all-time low."....Trump on Elon Musk: "Another bullshit artist."....Trump: "Joe Biden, who many have said is our worst President, has come down with a case of the China virus...Doctors described my fight against the China virus as Herculean, and not meaning the woke Disney Hercules but rather the Kevin Sorbo one. The Lou Ferrigno one as well. Joe, I wish you a speedy recovery, even though you are taking America in the wrong direction."....Mark Leibovich on Trump: "Easily the sorest loser, the most prodigious liar, and the most interminable victim ever to occupy the White House...He is, quite possibly, the biggest crybaby ever to toddle across history's stage."....
