An Alabama columnist had some choice words for his state's senior senator in an opinion piece published this week.
Writing at AL.com, columnist Roy S. Johnson compared Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to Hans Christian Andersen's famous "emperor with no clothes" who was fooled into walking around completely naked by a tailor who sold him seemingly invisible garments.
Among other things, Johnson argues that Tuberville's accomplishment's as senator in his two-plus years in office have been small to the point of nothingness.
"Tommy Tuberville gives us nothing to hold onto," he writes. "Nothing fanciful or fruitful. Nothing engaging or impactful. Nothing."
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"Yet Alabama’s senior U.S. Senator walks on," he writes. "Talks on. He spins and spins and spins invisible yarn and prays we see something that simply is not there — lest he be deemed unfit for the job."
To back up his point, Johnson pointed to Tuberville's widely mocked touting of infrastructure products coming to his state despite the fact that he voted against them two years ago.
"None of Tuberville’s fellow Republicans, those representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives, voted for the bill, either," noted Johnson. "They just had enough sense to say nothing."
Johnson also chided Tuberville for "blocking military promotions like a petulant child because he does not want women in the military —women sacrificing to serve our nation — to have equitable access to medical options" when it comes to abortion rights.
The columnist even gets in a dig at the fact that "Tuberville’s own brother even chose to publicly 'distance himself' from "the senator with no clothes, which too many continue to ignore, lest he be deemed unfit for the job."