Internet slams Marsha Blackburn for graphic attacking infrastructure bill: 'Are these supposed to be bad?'

Internet slams Marsha Blackburn for graphic attacking infrastructure bill: 'Are these supposed to be bad?'
Image via Gage Skidmore.
David Badash
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 The New Civil Rights Movement
April 08, 2021

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is continuing her agenda of actively attacking everything Democrats do, to the point she is becoming like a more experienced Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert.

On Wednesday Blackburn posted a Twitter thread filled with graphics she appeared to see as attacking President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill. As the far-right Tennessee conservative may learn, the legislation is extraordinarily popular with the American people – Democratic and Republican voters alike.

Blackburn is among the most extreme GOP Senators, with just four (Ernst, Cruz, Cotton, and Inhofe) being even more far-right than she is. She is also rated below average in leadership, according to GovTrack, a non-partisan website that tracks Congress.

Here's Blackburn's "attack":



The DNC liked it so much they "stole" it (her logo is still at the top):


It didn't go well for her. Take a look:
























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