This is an opinion cartoon.

Is it just me or does Sen. Katie Britt’s ‘motherly’ giddy enthusiasm for a law that cuts taxes for the rich at the expense of Alabama’s poor have a creepy ‘Mommie Dearest’ vibe?

My colleague Kyle Whitmire offers his take in a column under the headline: Katie Britt didn’t flinch.

A few excerpts:

Whoever hands out the U.S. Senate speaking gigs must have it in for Sen. Katie Britt.

A year and a half ago, Britt went on national television to deliver the State of the Union rebuttal to President Joe Biden and walked away from it, deep sigh, a sitting duck for Saturday Night Live.

And if anyone had forgotten that, Britt returned to national television again this weekend — on a show called “State of the Union,” no less — to defend the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” to CNN host Jake Tapper.

I know somebody had to go sell that stinker a day before the Senate vote, but couldn’t it be somebody other than Britt? Hasn’t Britt learned to say “no” yet? Sure, she called her autobiography “God Calls Us to Do Hard Things,” but that doesn’t mean every lousy speaking request is coming from the Almighty.

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Let’s be clear what this bill does. It cuts federal spending on programs for poor people but still increases the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the latest estimates.

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How does that work? At the same time it cuts programs for the needy, like Medicaid and food stamps, it’s cutting taxes for the rich. By even more. It’s like Robinhood, only backwards.

Meanwhile, the bill offloads responsibility for the safety net programs onto the states, including Alabama.

As Britt has campaigned for the bill, one Senator has voiced some skepticism — the senior senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville.

“Everybody that’s going to be in state government is going to be concerned about it,” Tuberville told Politico three weeks ago. “I don’t know whether we can afford it or not.”

Tuberville has a reason to be worried, as the odds-on front runner for Alabama governor, he might have to clean up this Big Beautiful mess back home. That still hasn’t stopped him from voting for it to clear procedural hurdles, though.

Read all of Whitmire’s column here.

JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group andAL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter@Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].