January 09, 2026
Hawley Knifes Us in the Back
Timothy Birdnow
Not Josh Hawley!
While I have loved most of what Hawley has done as a Senator I was less than thrilled when he was our candidate, and for good reason; I followed his career in Missouri and saw a tendency in him to do this sort of thing, to pull a John McCain every now and then and "reach out" to Democrats at the expense of his own party and the voters.
Susan Collins, Rand Paul (who else), Todd Young of Indiana joined Hawley and the Democrats.
News flash Josh; if you are voting with Democrats you are almost certainly on the wrong side of an issue. You should know that by now. There is nothing they do for the American People nor for your party.
I remember when Missouri Governor Eric "Fifty Shades of Gray" Greitens was charged by a partisan hack DA in St. Louis (who has seen been removed from office, went on the lam to avoid being forced to testify, and wound up being convicted of crimes) Hawley, who could have stopped the witch hunt at any time, not only didn't do anything (he was Missouri AG at the time) but he didn't even say anything, despite the fact the whole prosecution was a farce and any idiot could tell that. He let Kim Gardner force Greitens from office. IF he thought it was good Greitens be forced from office (he was formerly a Democrat) fine but the GOP should have been the ones to do it and on legitimate grounds. He let them pull this and win because party insiders in Missouri hated Greitens, who was pushing for lobbying reforms that was going to take a lot of bread from their greedy porcine mouths.
I've never fully trusted Hawley since. This only confirms my reasons to suspect he will fail us when the crunch comes.
Shame on him. Shame on Collins. Rand Paul at least was being true to his beliefs - he's a libertarian in everything except party affiliation. I don't know much about Young but he's probably deserving of shame too.
Donald Trump is taking necessary and proper actions at a critical time and it is just this sort of stupidity that has in times past led to our being stuck with so many terrible regimes trying to undermine us and freedom in the world. Ronald Reagan would be doing exactly what Trump is doing now. Anyone remember the Sandanistas? Reagan knew they were the lynchpin for revolution throughout Central America, at a time when it really mattered. He was unwilling to be hamstrung by Congress and he did something about it. (Granted, Obama/Biden let Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas come back, and it was the same reasoning applied by these two dimwitted el presidente's as being applied by Hawley and his ass, er, associates here.)
In my mind this should disqualify Hawley from any consideration for leadership positions in the future. If you can't be a team player when the other team is the Democrats you don't deserve to run a lemonade stand.
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And people are still surprised why Congress has such a low approval rating? Or are they? I'm not!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 10, 2026 11:58 PM (lBLsY)
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Neither am I Dana.
I'm not sure what Hawley thinks he's accomplishing by siding with the Democrats here but he apparently is positioning himself in some way. Perhaps he plans to run for President by appealing to the paleos and Libertarians? This is no doubt quite a popular move with these old line isolationist Republicans.
It will also buy him some good press.
You're right; turncoat Republicans are why Congress doesn't work, and why Trump has to circumvent them as much as possible.
I caught Mark Warner on Fox News Sunday this morning and he was bloviating about how Trump must go to Congress for any more military action. I was so frustrated with host Shannon Bream, who never asked the dope the obvious "why would he when all Democrats will vote against it no matter what". Warner knows full well HIS party will vote against any authorization of force to the last man, and several Republicans like this will join them to get good press - the old John McCain trick. And of course Congress will leak every single thing they learn as prt of their oversight
Trump is showing our world's problems can indeed be fixed but that the ruling class in the West has never actually tried to or wanted to fix these problems.
I'm not sure what Hawley thinks he's accomplishing by siding with the Democrats here but he apparently is positioning himself in some way. Perhaps he plans to run for President by appealing to the paleos and Libertarians? This is no doubt quite a popular move with these old line isolationist Republicans.
It will also buy him some good press.
You're right; turncoat Republicans are why Congress doesn't work, and why Trump has to circumvent them as much as possible.
I caught Mark Warner on Fox News Sunday this morning and he was bloviating about how Trump must go to Congress for any more military action. I was so frustrated with host Shannon Bream, who never asked the dope the obvious "why would he when all Democrats will vote against it no matter what". Warner knows full well HIS party will vote against any authorization of force to the last man, and several Republicans like this will join them to get good press - the old John McCain trick. And of course Congress will leak every single thing they learn as prt of their oversight
Trump is showing our world's problems can indeed be fixed but that the ruling class in the West has never actually tried to or wanted to fix these problems.
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