Not So Good Offense
Written by Nick Carraway:
I’ve always been envious of people that lack shame. Josh Hawley is apparently taking the fourth door when it comes to defending yourself when you’ve participated in a failed coup. The first three defenses are ones each of us would do in a normal situation. You can just stay quiet and hope it goes away. You can apologize and hope it goes away. You can also resign and slink away in shame.
Mr. Hawley has chosen a fourth way. Attack. He has launched a counter ethics complaint against the seven Democrats that are asking for his removal from the Senate. Apparently, you shouldn’t expel people for failed coups. It was just a minor disagreement over who should be in charge after all.
I’m not sure what it takes to be this bullheaded. Maybe you could call it courage. Maybe you could call it stupidity. Maybe you could call it stubbornness. Maybe his conscience is just three sizes too small. As some football coach once said, the best defense is a good offense.
Nick
Arrogant – check
Seditious, insurrection supporting pr**k – Major check
Stupid – check
Please, someone expell this fascist POS and indict him. NOW.
1Hawley better hope his strategy pans out, otherwise he’ll have a hard time convincing the judge and later the parole board he has any regrets or remorse for his actions.
From here he doesn’t look like a quick learner.
2The explanation is the same one could use for anything that Cruz does, as wellL They both think they are smarter than anybody else. We are all morons in their so-called minds. Thinking you are always the smartest guy in the room is always a mistake–one that they both keep making. This won’t end well for either of them.
3You know who (hint, used significant amounts of orange makeup), always skipped to # 4 as well because of his malignant narcissism. I think it’s safe to say not joshin hawley is just like his orange hero. Same affliction. He’ll only get worse.
4I’m with you Papa.
Thanks, another Papa
Then there’s John Cornyn who was taken to twitter task by AOC.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
5@AOC
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I dunno, if you’re a politician that thinks ending discrimination is “divisive,” you might not want to publicly advertise that
Hawley is copying Joe McCarthy. Even before his Wheeling speech McCarthy was doing it. He drove Baldwin out of the Senate.
6Welcome to the world of Extremism.
7They are the ‘Chosen Ones’, their sh*t don’t stink.
Hawley is performing, and you are making the universal mistake of looking at the performer when you should be looking at the audience.
8So why are he and Cruz being sworn in as jurors in the impeachment trial when they were part of the coup?? Inquiring minds want to know. Seems like a conflict of interest t o me.
9It’s ego.
10Josh is the smartest person on earth, and can therefore do as he pleases.
According to him anyway.
Considering that what Senator Hawley is defending is insurrection, I’m not sure attack is the best strategy, here. If he looks enough like a traitorous (though not in the legal sense) idiot, people might start believing that that’s what he is. They might be right.
11Apparently Hawley is using Roy Cohn’s tactics. Attack relentlessly. Roy was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and a Democrat, but helped Reagan. A real scum lord. Hawley fits right in.
12Sorry, but I have a burning question: If Hair Furor is/isn’t impeached & convicted, is he liable for civil or criminal charges? (And if he is, which?)
13Doing a *Trumpy* – needs to stay in the spotlight .
14He is subject to any sort of charge whether he is impeached or not or whether the impeachment is confirmed or not.
In legal theory.
In practice, Iran-Contra established that it is almost impossible to pursue charges against high elected officials. Governors occasionally are prosecuted but people like Dan Inouye maneuvered to protect national officeholders. Inouye is gone but the precedent is not.
15I should add that he could have some claims to immunity for actions done under a colorable claim of official duties. Civil anyway.
But he could not claim an official duty to, say, evade taxes.
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