Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE. Meet Tom Tiffany: Trump sycophant and ill-informed charlatan with a shameful resume as an elected official

Sunday, June 27, 2021

GET ME REWRITE. Meet Tom Tiffany: Trump sycophant and ill-informed charlatan with a shameful resume as an elected official

Capital Times, 6/25/2021

Since he was elected to Congress in a special election to fill out the term of another Walker sycophant, Sean Duffy, in May of last year and then elected to a full two-year term last November, Tiffany has flown the colors of Donald Trump more than even some of his GOP colleagues have been able to stomach.
He's on board with the "stolen" election. He and another Wisconsin freshman Republican congressman, Scott Fitzgerald, advocated to have Vice President Mike Pence refuse to certify the election results. Tiffany's been against pandemic relief that has helped his own constituents, and he's a naysayer on the COVID-19 vaccines. Quite a resume for a former Wisconsin legislator who spent most of his time dismantling environmental regulations that have served to protect northwest Wisconsin's rivers, lakes and scenic beauty.
But he gets elected, usually fairly easily. Before the GOP-controlled Legislature figured out how to gerrymander the state's political boundaries, Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District was represented by the likes of Republican Mel Laird and then Democrat Dave Obey. Both Laird and Obey became accomplished and revered lawmakers, mightily contributing to the nation's progress.\
Now an ill-informed charlatan like Tiffany carries the banner for a part of the state that deserves so much better.

6/24/2021 update, "Tom Tiffany is pathetic", starts here.

Cap Times, 6/23/2021

The Seventh District congressman is an unapologetic right-wing zealot, who participated in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and who has a history of anti-democratic agitation. But the vote on the Juneteenth holiday was different from Tiffany’s predictable votes on behalf of Donald Trump’s authoritarian scheming.

Most Republicans, most conservatives and most Trump apologists voted for the holiday. Tiffany’s vote against recognizing and celebrating Juneteenth was accompanied by a delusional statement in which the representative tried to explain his position by claiming that, "Once again, House Democrats have used their majority to balkanize our country and fuel separatism by creating a race-based 'Independence Day.'"

Even by the dumbed-down standards that are applied to this particular congressman, Tiffany’s statement was pathetic.

6/18/2021 update, "GET ME REWRITE: In politics, Tom Tiffany keeps movin' on up to ever higher levels of incompetence", starts here.

The Peter Principle in action.

Wisconsin State Journal, 6/17/2021

You don't get more despicably off-the-mark than this.

"Once again, House Democrats have used their majority to balkanize our country and fuel separatism by creating a race-based 'Independence Day,'" Tiffany, R-Minocqua, said in a statement. "There is only one Independence Day in America, just as there is only one National Anthem, one American flag and one America — under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

"It is unfortunate," he continued, "that some have chosen to politicize the naming of this important historical event — one of many momentous milestones in America’s shared journey that began in 1776 to create a more perfect union — to turn Americans against one another and foment division based on skin color instead of uniting us."

We are reckoning with whiteness here.

Original 6/17/2021 post, "Wisconsin's Tom Tiffany is among the 14 GOP white males in the U.S. House who voted against making Juneteenth a federal holiday", starts here.

CNN, 6/16/2021

The bill passed the House 415-14 after the Senate unanimously passed the legislation Tuesday. The 14 Republicans to vote against the bill were Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, Doug LaMalfa of California, Tom McClintock of California, Mike Rogers of Alabama, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Ronny Jackson of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Chip Roy of Texas and Paul Gosar of Arizona. (shown in order, left to right, in the photo collage above)

The lazeist white men in the House. (5/21/2021)

GET ME REWRITE: Tom Tiffany has been an elected official since 2009 and still doesn't know how government works. (4/11/2021)

As you would expect, Tom Tiffany peddles inaccurate Covid transmission information. (4/9/2021)

Tom TIffany Clown Show shills for white privilege. (3/27)

Tom Tiffany challenges Glenn Grothman for desingation as Wisconsin State Clown. (3/25)

Tales of Treason: Tom Tiffany goes to Washington. (3/6)

Meet the Wisconsin delegation of the U.S. House Traitors Caucus. (1/7)
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus crazies team up to scrap 'one-China' policy. (3/5)

2020

GET ME REWRITE: Tom Tiffany working to yank title of Wisconsin State Embarrassment from Glenn Grothman. (10/2)

Dear Tom Tiffany, Confederate monuments were erected decades after the end of the Civil War and are intended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy. (7/23)
GET ME REWRITE: Trump-backed Tom Tiffany underperforms in Duffyland, Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. (5/13)
Clearly, the hard hat is offering no protection. (1/21)