Al Green loses his primary
No great loss – except to Al Green.
This is an example of the effect of redistricting. Green would have almost certainly been a shoe-in if he was running in his old district. But he can’t do that, because his old district doesn’t exist. So he switched to another district, and was defeated in the runoff:
The race for Texas’ solidly Democratic 18th Congressional District was an incumbent-on-incumbent Democratic clash, with Green and Menefee both trying to preserve their places in Congress after redistricting altered the congressional districts around Houston.
Green has been among President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics in Congress, pursuing impeachment charges on multiple occasions against him during both of Trump’s terms. Green has been kicked out of Trump’s State of the Union addresses multiple times as well for standing up and protesting amid the speech.
The new district is not competitive for the GOP, so Menefee will almost certainly win in the general.
So is Menefee any better than Green. I mean, other than waving a cane, raising Cain
My fear is that the Reps that lost to Trump supporters will do everything they can to cause trouble.
Nelson laugh: HA HA.
Menefee could scarcely be worse than Green, or at least more ridiculous.
The dems are gonna need a new Preston Brooks.
As an ex-congresscritter, Green can still attend the SOTU, although he will be seated in the gallery. He could still make a spectacle from the gallery, at least for a short while. That’s all he did on the floor — made a spectacle until he was escorted out.
I’d prefer to enjoy THE Al Green:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0
The voters took him to the river and washed him down.
An interesting article that Green was taken down by big spending PACs funded by the crypto industry. Apparently the winner, Menefeepro crypto, but Green is not. Makes as much sense as anything else
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/al-mrimpeachment-green-out-crypto-backed-candidates-win-key-texas-primary-runoffs
Al ‘Mr.Impeachment’ Green Out As Crypto-Backed Candidates Win Key Texas Primary Runoffs
— Shirehome
It’s already started, though more visibly in the Senate. Thom Tillis has been taking potshots at Trump and MAGA ever since he announced he wasn’t running again, and now I fully expect Cornyn to join in. Thune might or might not join them, it might come down to whether his rage is stronger than his sense of political self-preservation.
Lindsey Graham and MAGA have had a touchy relationship for decades (all the way back to the 2006 Comprehensive Amnesty effort, though MAGA wasn’t called MAGA back then, it was still MAGA). OTOH, Graham has been taking some measures to mend fences, in both the first term and since 2024.
Al Green – Let’s [Not] Stay Together
Is it shoe-in or shoo-in?
@BenDavid:
It’s “shoo-in”.
Yep – “shoo-in”, as in shoo-ing some small animal or insect away from you with waves of the hand, while exclaiming “Shoo!”
@ Ben David – the two phrases seem to be used interchangeably now, although shoe-in is a mistake for the homophonic shoo.
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/shoo-in-vs-shoe-in/
“You can find this misspelling of shoo-in even in respected publications:”
Citations from Time magazine and the New York Times.
Sigh.
What loosers.
That’s because people are ignorant of the etymology, especially if they have only heard the phrase and not read it somewhere. And maybe with air conditioning in offices and homes, journalists no long shoo flies. Or fix horse races.
(h/t Maureen IIRC, who mentioned this common but mistaken substitution for losers)
Continuing down the rabbit-hole, originally the phrase came from corruption in horse races.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoo-in
“From a sense of the verb shoo, where racehorses would fall back and allow a chosen rider to win a fixed race. See 1910 quotation.”
Also from Wiktionary: “From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German sch?, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).”
Thus endeth today’s English lesson.