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Mark Z. Barabak: Forget decency. In today's politics it's all about nastiness and party loyalty

Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own. Tony Gonzales, a two-term congressman from San Antonio, was censured for, among other things, backing a modest gun safety law after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered at an elementary school in Uvalde. The day after the party issued its condemnation, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson appeared on Fox News (motto: "Lying ...
Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, if he would resign during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Ending the U.S. Military Mission in Afghanistan in the Rayburn House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29, 2021 in Washington, D.C..

Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own.

Tony Gonzales, a two-term congressman from San Antonio, was censured for, among other things, backing a modest gun safety law after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered at an elementary school in Uvalde.

The day after the party issued its condemnation, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson appeared on Fox News (motto: " for fun and profit") where he cracked wise about the removal of a cancerous growth

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