I’ll keep this brief so I don’t get too snarky.

On Wednesday — just hours after passage of the American Rescue Plan — Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi touted how the historic COVID relief legislation would help restaurant owners in the Magnolia State.

Except Wicker — like every other Republican in both the House and Senate — voted against the American Rescue Plan!

Here’s where things stand right now:

• One of the two major parties in this country — the Republican Party — has no actual platform. (Literally. Republicans didn’t adopt a platform in 2020, instead endorsing Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.)

• It welcomed and colluded with the corrupt, criminal presidency of Donald Trump. Over and over again.

• It whines relentlessly about cultural change while fomenting and exploiting racism in a blatant ploy to retain power undemocratically.

• It repeatedly chooses petty, spiteful, pointless partisanship over helping the American people — even its own supporters.

• And now its leaders are resorting to trying to take credit for historic, popular laws they opposed in a pathetic ruse to appear relevant and responsive to their constituents.

Tell Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker:

You are fooling exactly nobody. The American people see right through your pathetic attempt to take credit for assistance to small businesses in the American Rescue Plan that you voted against. Why don’t you try passing helpful legislation (your state capital, Jackson, has been dealing with a water crisis for over three weeks) instead of falsely taking credit for real work done by your colleagues?

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