Johnson blocks vote on antisemitism envoy, meets with truckers instead

[Behind the Aegis]

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy. Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C., in protest of the COVID-19 mandates and to support those imprisoned for participating in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

Jewish groups expressed outrage at the holdup, with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt calling Johnson’s behavior “disgraceful.”

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was scheduled to vote to advance Lipstadt’s confirmation, one of about a dozen nominations, following a long-delayed and contentious hearing last month.

During the hearing Johnson accused Lipstadt, one of the foremost historians of the Holocaust, of engaging in the “malicious poison” of hatred for a tweet in which she accused him of engaging in white supremacy for his comments about the Jan. 6 riot. While Lipstadt expressed regret for the tweet, saying it was not meant as a personal or political attack, the Republican senator from Wisconsin indicated he would try to foil her nomination.

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[dchill]

1. The stench of Ron Johnson's rot is getting unbearable.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. As odious as MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn are, they are nothing more than rodeo clows.

Johnson, on the other hand, is an actual politician, and an evil one at that. They are the distraction from vile actions from him and others just like him.

[dchill]

5. Yeah, but I'll bet the truckers RonJon met with were just...

... wondering where MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn were.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. "Everybody loves a clown, so why don't you?"

I agree, they like their show clowns for sure.

[dchill]

7. Gary Lewis and the Playboys!

[Behind the Aegis]

10. LOL! I only know it from "The Simpsons" Halloween special, "A Clown Without Pity".

I know all kinds of odd quotes, words, and snippets of snogs because of that show.

[dchill]

11. I hear you. I'm 70, so my experience is different!

[Poiuyt]

4. Sometimes I wonder if he's trying to lose the Nov election.

The last two years have just been agonizing,

[msongs]

3. block it how? if its a blue slip scam tell him where to putit nt

[Bettie]

8. OMG, They are all such colossal

assholes.

How did we get here, where half of our elected officials are just giant galloping dickheads?

[spanone]

9. We have to get rid of these horrible people. I'm physically disgusted by republicons.