So, Louisiana’s junior U.S. senator is teaming up with that constitutional scholar Tommy Tuberville and nine other senators and senators-elect to challenge Joe Biden’s victory over President Tweet Thang in the November election that the Tweeter-in-Chief lost by more than 7 million votes.
John Neely Kennedy’s decision to embark on this exercise in futility should make his Louisiana constituents very proud. We have a damned fool wasting his time on this B.S. effort to undermine the nation’s democratic process while 350,000 Americans have died of coronavirus (that’s more than half the 675,000 Americans who died in the Spanish Flu pandemic – which lasted more than two years, compared to one year of coronavirus so far).
Instead of trying to learn why the Trump administration fell more than 16 million short of the 20 million who were supposed to receive the vaccinations by Dec. 31, he would rather grandstand, pontificate and spew his homey Foghorn Leghorn banalities as he always does (Name one thing he’s done in four years in the Senate other than run his mouth).
Kennedy is going to spend his time on this fruitless challenge even as we learn of a massive computer hack of our government by Russians.
Kennedy feels this Rudy Giuliani-esque exercise is more important than the bounties paid by Russia to Taliban militants to kill Americans.
Kennedy would rather grandstand and garner face time on network television than take a serious interest in helping millions of Americans – including Louisianans – who are out of work, facing eviction, losing unemployment benefits and going hungry.
Kennedy would prefer to reject the decision of the American people in a democratic election in order to suck up to Trump. Remember when the Republicans (and Trump) were saying IMPEACHMENT was part of an attempt to NULLIFY the 2016 election?
Kennedy would rather stand with Tuberville and nine other crackpots than take his job as senator seriously.
Why do I single out Tuberville over the other nine who are continuing their attempt to thwart the democratic process when 60 – count ‘em, 60 – court challenges of the election have already proved unsuccessful? Kennedy says he wants the legal process to play out. Well, it has, John Boy, it has.
But let’s return to Tuberville.
It’s not like he’s squeaky clean himself. He was just a little too close to JOHN DAVID STROUD for my comfort. I know, that’s guilt by association. But let’s not forget that he was a co-defendant in that fraud LAWSUIT that claimed the two partners mixed clients’ assets with their own, failed to filed tax returns, falsified fund performance reports and “generally disregarded and violated customary practices and procedures followed in the hedge fund and security investments industry.”
Tuberville, the former head football coach at Auburn, was head coach of Texas Tech at the time and by the time he SETTLED the lawsuit, he was head coach at the University of Cincinnati. Looks like somebody has trouble holding a job.
Tuberville claimed that Stroud merely used his name, that he was an investor “just like everyone else” who lost money. But the fact is, he was a 50-50 partner with Stroud in TS Capital Partners – that’s “T” for Tuberville and “S” for Stroud.
Of course, terms of the lawsuit settlement were confidential, as is the trend these days. When Tuberville ran for the Senate in Alabama, his campaign was asked to release the plaintiffs from the settlement’s confidentiality agreement.
The campaign refused to do so. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
But that’s nothing compared to Tuberville’s grasp of basic civics and American history. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank probably had the best take on Tuberville who probably (to paraphrase LBJ on Gerald Ford) played too much football without a helmet (as opposed to Kennedy who talks like he played too much without a cup). But since there is a paywall to The Post, I’ll just borrow a few of Milbank’s examples of the wit and wisdom of Tommy Tuberville:
His dad, for example, “fought…in Europe to free Europe of socialism.” That might be news to Hitler and the Nazis as well as a few million WWII combatants.
In 2000, he told the Alabama Daily News, “Al Gore…was president-elect for 30 days.” He probably should have been, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. The actual number of days Gore was president-elect was…0, zero, zilch, nada, nil – as in none.
Of the opioid epidemic, he informs us, “It’s not just opioids now, it’s heroin.”
On health care, he cited the need to “open up” a health-care system “where we have more than one insurance company.” Really? There are 952 health insurance companies in the U.S.
He said he wanted to serve on the Senate “banking finance” committee. Banking and Finance are separate committees and besides, he is ineligible to serve on Banking because Alabama’s senior Republican senator, Richard Shelby, already is on that committee. And speaking of his desire to be a member of the “banking finance” committee, did I mention that fraud business with that hedge fund with John David Stroud? Did I also mention that a lawsuit over the hedge fund (read: Ponzi scheme) resulted in a confidential settlement?
Rural hospitals have closed, he said, “because we don’t have Internet.”
In discussing the “three branches of government,” he named “the House, the Senate and the executive.”
On the Voting Rights Act: “Who’s it going to help?”
On constitutional democracy: “We’d probably get more done with just the president running this country. So, let the Democrats go home.”
On education: “We’re going to educate several generations in this country that really don’t understand this country.”
Looks like he’s got a jump on the rest of us on that last one.
As for John Neely Kennedy: Just shut the hell up and do your damned job.
Louisiana Voice 
It should embarrass Kennedy.
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Fayette, I am convinced it’s impossible to embarrass parasites like Kennedy and Clay Higgins.
– “as opposed to Kennedy who talks like he played too much without a cup”…
…spilled my damned drink as I read that one, lol. And I think there are a few more zeros on those numbers referencing the vaccination shortfall. I would send a “you’re still such an asshole” message to kennedy if it would do any good, but I know he’d just send a snarky “that’s Rhodes Scholar asshole to you, sir” message back. So, I’ll wait patiently for two more years and make sure I add my vote to send his ass back to the dumpster-fire he came from.
I have come to the conclusion that these “new” republican senators and representatives have no knowledge of government or history. As for John Kennedy, I think he is only in Washington for the perks and power. He obviously has changed…tremendously. The ones, like him, who are voting to basically do away with the people’s vote are voting to do away with democracy. And we must do away with them.
I think that was supposed to be 20 million, not 20 thousand by 12/31/2020, at least according to the leaders of Operation Warp Speed.
You’re absolutely correct. I’m my own worst proofreader.
Goodness Tom, you have started 2021 with one of your best. It will be hard to top this one!
Three of the dirty dozen who will create chaos at the event that should be a pro forma acceptance of the electoral college count were among the seven Republican senators and one republican representative who celebrated the 2018 Fourth of July in Moscow. John Kennedy was among that number. Makes one wonder if they are running home to Mother Russia.
I will message the erstwhile senator with my opinion that an audit of the presidential election is fine with me as long as all 50 states’ results are audited. Because it’s my belief that trump did not win all those states that “went” for him. No way he could have won. The polls predicted a Biden sweep and American voters are not that stupid, right? /s If this exercise is not to overturn the election but to satisfy the trump voters that the announced winner in fact won the election, then people like me should have the results of the trump-won states proven beyond a doubt as well.
As for Tuberville, he proves that there should be a test of knowledge of how our government operates before anyone may qualify to run for Congress. A passing grade on a civics test from any level of K-12 education would serve nicely. He is old enough to have slept through civics, which he apparently did.
I fear the republic is not in good hands (Eisenhower). There are probably a few Americans rooting for Iran to rid us of this turbulent imPOTUS (Henry II) for his role in the death of their general last year. Many of us will not breathe well until trump becomes irrelevant and fades from the collective consciousness of the US.
– “…there should be a test of knowledge of how our government operates before anyone may qualify to run for Congress.”
I hear you earthmother, but I’d prefer to see a better educated electorate. You can drive through a couple trailer parks near me that are serious havens of poverty, crime and drug addiction but couldn’t throw a stone without hitting several dozen Trump election signs. If the voter understands civics, then they are much less likely to fall victim to the snake oil the politician is pedaling.
I thought the “TS” in TS Capital Partners stood for “Tough Sh*t”. How could I be so foolish?
As usual, well said!
John Neely Kennedy, rather than standing for the sanctity of our country and all that is reasonable and proper, has chosen to play to the conspiracy theorists among his constituents – Never again, JNK, do you deserve the vote of anybody with good sense.
I doubt Kennedy and Tuberville are really that dumb. But their states are governed by corporate stooges. No wonder the citizens believe government can’t do any good and do not trust politicians and elections. Our state governments refuse to tax corporations and therefore cannot deliver decent public services. Just look at the latest US News & World Report university rankings. Along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida, the public universities of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are a disgrace compared to those of Florida, Texas, and Georgia. Why? Are the students dumb? Nope. Are the professors dumb? Nope. Are student-faculty ratios through the roof because so many have left due to low salaries and not been replaced because of a lack of funding? Yup. Kennedy and Tuberville are simply playing to their audience, which has been abused by our politicians for so long they distrust everything about them and government.
Kennedy’s really ignorant. I heard him speak and answer questions in Abita Springs a couple of years back when he was running. Up until then I was neutral on him. After witnessing his total stupidity first-hand he moved to my idiots in office list.
OK. I will take you eyewitness assessment as true: John Kennedy is dumb.
Bayou Bernie, very succinct, very accurate and very sad for our state. Unfortunately, I believe Tuberville really is that stupid. Thanks.
OK. I will take you expert assessment as true: Tuberville is dumb.
It is always good to pause and take a long, hard look at our elected officials. However, until we take a long, hard look at the Louisiana folks that elect them, we will continue to be underserved by “political prostitutes” instead of public servants. It is true that the poor, uneducated love Trumpism (will never understand this unless it has to do with bigotry?). But, then there are the upper middle class, church-going, White folks that also mystify me. My conversation with any of Trump’s supporters that I know about why they love him so, always ends with no answers. They never go beyond, MAGA or “he has been soooo mistreated.” These folks are not dumb….so, until we can understand their emotional reasoning about loving Trump or any politician that sucks up to him (Kennedy), it is my humble opinion that we are doomed to continue this downward plunge. What has anyone heard from our new State Democratic Leadership…? BTW, the Trumper ladies that I know locally are ALL running around without masks, having open houses, playing bridge, holding their book clubs….need I say more?