Skrulls! That's right. Skrulls have apparently replaced many practical, no nonsense South Dakota legislators: good solid folk who believe that hard work is its own reward. How else does one explain the desire to hand out stickers and pass "give everyone a trophy for participating" resolutions? Shapeshifting Skrulls have taken on the form of South Dakota legislators and replaced the good folk South Dakotans elected.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 (SCR 5) provides the most obvious proof that something is amiss. SCR 5 commends Senators Thune and Rounds for supporting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.
Let's review: a Republican state legislature commends the states's Republican federal senators for supporting someone nominated by a Republican president. Thune's and Rounds's votes were hardly profiles in courage. No South Dakota Democrat is going to win campaigning against the Kavanaugh vote. In fact, voting against Kavanaugh would have increased the chance of a Republican primary challenger. There's no need to commend someone for making a politically expedient vote. Republicans would know that. Skrulls probably would not.
More importantly, the resolution commends Thune and Rounds for supporting Trump, an act they perform with extreme regularity. Thune votes with Trump 95% of the time. Rounds is in line with Trump's positions on nearly 92% of his votes. The odds of the two men voting against Trump's nominee is only slightly higher than the odds of fictional Skrulls taking over the state legislature. (The odds of Trump's positions aligning with South Dakotans" best interests 90% of the time is likely lower.)
Republicans used to be republican. At the state level, they worried about the state first. Is it too much to hope that some work will get done about roads or nursing homes that are disappearing before the legislature devotes time to handing out participation trophies to politicians for taking politically expedient votes?
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