There were still more than 10 months to go, but John Avlon had the early lead in the race for The Year’s Most Inapt Analogy. Predictably, on Wednesday, CNN This Morning raked the House Republicans over the coals for their failure to get the necessary votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, or pass a stand-alone Israel aid bill.
Speaking of rakes, co-anchor Phil Mattingly kicked things off with this mocking depiction of Republicans: “This was clearly another day of a full-on pursuit of the Republican agenda of sequentially finding rakes and then stepping on them.“
Commenting on the situation, Avlon dropped a World War II analogy that was contextually dubious at best:
So much losing. House Republicans have shown themselves to be unwilling and unable to govern in the national interest . . . So many levels of failure . . . So they…
