Hawley Freaking Out?

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Insurrectionist Sen. Josh Hawley worried? Best moment of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s nohearing yesterday was Hawley asking him detailed questions about what cell phone and additional data might reveal about those involved in January 6 attack on U.S. Congress and U.S. Capitol.

Wray coyly answered he doesn’t know details but assured Hawley it’s “being handled properly”.

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  2. The Divine Bette Midler and MeidasTouch have a message for the treasonous Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. Credits: Parody lyrics by Eric Kornfeld Piano by Marc Shaiman Vocals by The Divine Bette Midler

  3. from PBS interview 2/3/21:

    Judy Woodruff:

    And to talk more about where the Republican Party is right now, I’m joined by former Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri.

    Senator Danforth, thank you so much for joining us.

    You garnered a good deal of attention last month when, after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, you were quoted as saying that your support for your home state Senator Josh Hawley a couple of years earlier was — quote — “the worst mistake you have made in your life.” You said he was instrumental by his actions in creating perhaps the darkest day in American history.

    […]

    • Judy Woodruff:

      And, Senator, when Senator Hawley and others say they don’t see anything wrong with challenging the election results — and, in fact, Senator Hawley himself said what he had done was not an effort to overturn the election — what is the danger? What are the consequences in challenging a legal election outcome?

    • John Danforth:

      Well, the consequences are what you saw on January the 6th.

      It was there, then, an attack on the Capitol Building. It’s a fracturing of the country. Previously, the certification of the Electoral College votes was a mere formality. I never attended one. I mean, they may have lasted an hour or so.

      But what Hawley did was to create an event. He announced that he was going to object, that he was going to make this into a big deal, and then he repeatedly said that the election was in doubt, that January 6 was going to be the decisive day, this wasn’t over yet.

      And then he appeared in front of the Capitol Building in that famous photograph encouraging what was going on. So, yes, I mean, it’s not the democratic process. He claimed that all he was trying to do was to use the opportunity to speak. He didn’t speak.

      I mean, when Pennsylvania came up on the floor of the Senate, he remained in his chair.

    • Judy Woodruff:

      Well, let


    • John Danforth:

      So, it was really an effort to create an event, and there was trouble that was created in that event.

  4. st. louis fox2now 1/7/21:

    Former Missouri U.S. Senator John Danforth told St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger that “Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.” Danforth said the violence Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was the “culmination of the long attempt to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn’t work and that voting was fraudulent.”

    Danforth told the Associated Press that he was “bamboozled” by Hawley and would no longer back him for re-election or a possible White House bid in 2024.

    Asked if he believes Hawley bears some responsibility for the attack on the Capitol, Danforth says simply, “Yes, I do.”

    There have been calls for Hawley’s resignation in the wake of Wednesday’s violence. His office released a statement saying “he will never apologize for giving voice to the millions of Missourians and Americans who have concerns about the integrity of our elections.”

  5. He’s RonAnon Yohnson
    He comes from Wisconsin
    He spouts 40 lies in a day.
    Along comes a hearing
    But he’ll still be jeering
    Thinking GOP lies beat Chris Wray

  7. Amy Coney Barrett suddenly ran out of questioning time when the Arizona lawyer accidentally blurted the truth about voter suppression

  9. craig, i’m with jamie, cbob, BiD et al on your next endeavor; but if inspiration or energy is lacking to write an autobiography or life as a political reporter book or blog host, how ’bout considering authoring a sitcom or play about an enterprising journalist?  been a long time since murphy or lou grant and even longer since the intrepid young jimmy olsen from the daily planet.  new twist would be that the stories and characters are real.   

  11. I share my birthday with Dr. Seuss so it was interesting his publisher picked yesterday to take six of the books out of circulation.  It’s not as if almost everyone hasn’t known about the racist elements from his earliest cartoons.  Why now?  And to Think I saw It on Mulberry Street was one of the very first books I ever read for myself, so I had to rush to find a copy this morning for my “childhood library” that I’m rebuilding.  

    Of course the GOP leaped on this action as part of the “cancel culture” which is idiotic.  Don Lemon was right last night when he said that educating was better than eliminating.  Teaching the context is a great tool to fight racism.  Hiding it leaves the issue in the dark and open to the silliness of the Republicans.

     

  12. craig, your immortal words “just one more cow” might make a good subtitle.

    also tho’t of that and your reluctance to write another book when i saw this cartoon on writer’s block

    See the source image

     

  13. Jamie…  I don’t know why… but I was not into Dr. Seuss as a kid.  But I agree.  Let his books stand.  It’s the same crap as those who think we should ban Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn because of the language.  I find that point of view to be nonsense.
     
    Craig…  if you are fine with where your life stands right now…  my suggestion… ignore the noise… unless you don’t want to…  Enjoy!

  15. Was just feeling pretty good yesterday. But there’s always the repubes to knock ya back down.  I get the second shot later this month.  Seeming like we can get ahead to the virus and the assorted mutations soon.  And then….
     
    Asshole Abbott opened his ugly, ignorant month. Spring break is soon.  Could it be not only his repube attempt at distraction from his failed power grid as well as  a greed grab at spring break kids shoulder to shoulder in the Tejas riviera?  Both dan patrick and abbott are determined to kill everyone off/
     
    And so I’m now active in the dem party here at the grass roots level. Work needs to be down on every race from dog catcher to president!

  17. Republican anti-vaxxers will keep COVID endemic, and eventually it will become a disease that ravages poor white American communities almost exclusively.
     
    Let them vote for their own extinction đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž

  18. …there’s a young kid in my family with chronic heart disease as a result of COVID complications, but go ahead and take off that mask🙄🙄🙄

    Pardon me, back to your regularly scheduled programming✌

  19. OK, I guess you have to have lived in Missouri for the last Mummmbl, mummmble years. This isnot the first time Danforth has come out asking for forgiveness for a stupid political associates. (Clarence Thomas probably the most famous up to this point)
    It is like he has the apology down pat. He recommends an idiot and they do idiot things, then he goes on MSM and says “who would have thunk it”.
    There are some days and some people who make us regret modern medicine.
    Jack 

  21. Bink
    I talked to a neighbor lady yesterday. She caught a mild case with a cough. Even 3 months later she tires easily. her job is one of those invisible people in our healthcare industry. She cleans up after all of our messes. So she does work hard. 
    She is sending all of her extra money to her brother in Honduras. He has covid and needs to be on oxygen. Down there it is basically, “You need oxygen? Where is the cash?” It is cash up front if you want to live.
    Jack

  25. Trump? Trump who?
    Hey that is so yesterday. 
    The world has moved desperately back to old forms.
    Jake Tapper was wondering on Twitter why Biden is scared of the  press.
    And the there is the NYT and M Dowd. They all really want it to be 2010.
    Jack

  27. Do you suppose a little power struggle between Josh & Ted over who is the bigger a-hole could tear down their burgeoning, fascist regime?

  29. cnbc:

    The U.S. Capitol Police Department said Wednesday it has obtained intelligence showing a “possible plot to breach the Capitol” on Thursday “by an unidentified militia group.”
    “We are taking this intelligence seriously,” Capitol Police said in a press release, which also said that authorities are prepared for potential violence.
    “Due to the sensitive nature of this information we cannot provide additional details at this time.”
    The alert came a day after the Homeland Security Department and the FBI sent an intelligence bulletin to state and local law enforcement agencies warning that some domestic groups have “discussed plans to take control of the U.S. Capitol and remove democratic lawmakers on or about 4 March,” a senior law enforcement official told NBC News on Wednesday.

    [continues]

  35. So about this gop lawyer saying the quiet part out loud……that easier voting puts the gop at a competitive disadvantage.   
    You see, the suppress the vote deals are a kind of “affirmative action” for the white dudes.

  36. Christ on a unicycle.   We need democrats who know how to fight.   We need them now.   Cuomo, chastened, stays.
    The next shiny object by which the cult tries to benefit is just around the corner. 

    REMEMBER THE FRANKEN 

  39. Just like Franken, Cuomo not worth Dems looking like hypocrites. Why the F you think we won the House, Senate and Presidency thanks to women voters? Zero tolerance for harassment.

  42. Of course it’s not appropriate, Poobah, but they said the same thing about Joe.  Sounds like Cuomo went a bit further than whispering in ears and smelling hair, but damn, can’t we stop trying to take out our own? If the voters of NY don’t want him back they’ll vote for someone else.

  43. I loved Cuomo’s Covid leadership, hoped for the best, was willing to forgive the nursing home stuff as the chaos of war. But this behavior toward women, which he hasn’t denied, is inexcusable. 

  48. No argument about the stupidity, and I really don’t care one way or another about Cuomo.  I hear you about women voters.  I would point out that while Dumbass lost the female vote by 15% according to exit polls, we lost 11 seats in the house in November, so I’m not sure how to reconcile those numbers.  Regardless, I’m just not sure killing off the governor of New York is going to benefit Dems in 2022 congressional and state house races.

  50. Gov. Abbott is a lying a-hole. The reason we can open up now is because we have the vaccine. It doesn’t help until folks are vaccinated! If about half of seniors (just seniors) are vaccinated, that does not fix things. This is about talking focus off of his winter power failure, and, spring break money. That tree should’ve had better aim.

    He also said we don’t need a mask mandate because folks know they work and will wear them. No, you ass, you just told them they don’t have yo wear them. That is the inky thing your good, little qazis will hear.

    And now he’s bring up immigrants with COvid coming in.

    I miss Ann Richards!

  51. A-Butt just changing the subject from their piss-poor storm response……he must think texans are morons.

  53. Someone needs to investigate those who are suddenly coming out against Cuomo.  Why now?  Uh, because it’s tRUMPsky tax time?  

    Is this to send a message to anyone else involved in the case against SFB?  Why not say anything about it when it happened, if it happened.  Who do they know? Money/favors/press attention in play?  

  54. a point to ponder for purists:   the governor of new york can pardon the cult leader and his family.  Maybe we should think about the consequences of our actions.

  55. Well, at least Ronnie Jackson (MD Q, TX). seems to be in deepening shit. He’s taking the GQP approach- just deny the fuck out of it. Let’s see who in the GQP calls for his head. I’m guessing the list will be exceeding short. 

  62. these days hard times for the physically effusive greeters and huggers.  first it was the me-too and then the covid social distance rules.  the indiscriminate profligate flower child, the cuddly bear granny/grampy  type, the big family welcomer to the stranger at the door all seem to be considered perverts now.  

  67. Gov. Abbott’s health advisors say he didn’t talk to them before announcing his decision to open up TX and not require masks. 

  68. Whenever someone lets me play their electric guitar, i’m always like, “so…um… you mind if i turn up the ‘gain’”?:

    (They’re usually like “Yeah, so… i have those set where I like them…”🙄🙄🙄)

  69. Ok, neighbors are about to call the cops on me✌

    “We all know this is nothing, and this is nowhere, and there nothing, here”

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