Louisiana Voice

Sen. Bill Cassidy gets it.

John Kennedy, along with a dozen other senators and senators-elect, apparently does not.

Kennedy, who looks and acts as if he just stepped out of an old Pogo comic strip (or for the younger set, like Sen. Belfry of the Shoe comic strip), insists on bringing more and more embarrassment upon the state by joining with the others to CONTEST the electoral vote count during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress.

We can all vividly recall the Republicans bitching and moaning that Democrats were trying to nullify the results of the 2016 election with the impeachment of Donald Trump. They kept invoking the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump, conveniently ignoring the fact that 65.8 million did not.

Now the shoe is on the other foot and the Repugnantcans are trying to nullify the wishes of 81.2 million who voted to Biden (as opposed to the 74.2 million who voted for Trump).

That’s a double standard by any measure but you’d never know that by listening to Sen. Kornpone, aka Foghorn Leghorn who, every time he opens his mouth, a banal bromide spews forth.

It obviously has never occurred to Kennedy that he took an oath to defend, not undermine, the U.S. Constitution.

It never occurred to him that he is in a unique position to help, not ignore, his constituents. People are hurting, yet he plunges ahead on this doomed mission of fealty to a demagogue.

It never occurred to him that his loyalty should be to his country, not some orange-haired tyrant.

It never occurred to him to let the rule of law, not the petulant whims of a spoiled tweet-master, guide him as his moral compass.

In short, John Neely Kennedy has forgotten where he came from.

He is a former Democrat-turned-Republican for one reason and one reason only. Political philosophy had little to do with his switch; political survival had everything to do with it. He merely shifted with the political winds because that was his meal ticket.

You can bet the farm if the state made a sudden hard turn leftward, he’d be back in the Democrat camp proclaiming that he’d rather drink weed killer than forsake his liberal core beliefs. That’s John N. Kennedy sincerity for you. We call those kinds of political hacks neither RINOs nor DINOs, but chameleons.

If trump peed down his back and told him it was raining, he’d break out his umbrella. But if you tried to reach out to him, you’d get a computer-generated canned response that was neither germane nor useful.

He belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of Goofy.

But today, it was announced that Sen. Dr. Bill Cassidy is among a bipartisan group of 10 senators who are fighting that quixotic effort to overturn the election that Trump lost by 7 million votes.

The 10, which include, besides Louisiana’s senior senator, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney, signed off in a statement that said:

“The 2020 election is over. All challenges through recounts and appeals have been exhausted. At this point, further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people and only serve to undermine Americans’ confidence in the already determined election results. The voters have spoken and Congress must now fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results. In two weeks, we will begin working with our colleagues and the new Administration on bipartisan, common sense solutions to the enormous challenges facing our country. It is time to move forward.”

Maybe Cassidy could take Foghorn to the woodshed for a little man-to-boy talk.

Oh, and while he’s at it, he should take that ass-clown Clay Higgins with him.

Bullet-Head Higgins showed up for an appearance on JIM SCUITTO’S CNN SHOW earlier today and came off looking exactly like the imbecile he is.

Higgins, boasting that he is an “investigator,” (he was the public information officer for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office before he was canned – we aren’t sure what he ever “investigated”), claimed to have “thousands of pages” of evidence of voter fraud but when pressed by Scuitto, was unable to cite a single example. No, not one. nada. zilch.

That’s not unusual for the one Louisiana elected official who has the capability of making John Kennedy look good by comparison.

It truly escapes me how this guy ever got elected. It’s not as if he had a lightweight as an opponent in his initial run for Congress four years ago. He defeated Scott Angelle rather handily. Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, had finished a close third in a four-man race for governor in 2015, barely losing a runoff spot to retiring U.S. Sen. David Vitter and had led in the first primary in the congressional race a year later.

But by running on Trump’s coattails in much the same manner as Kennedy did for the Senate, Higgins, who would give a head of cabbage a good run in an IQ test, won by 12 percentage points in the runoff.

Higgins is a guy who went into the race about $100,000 in arrears on his child support payments and was recorded telling his ex-wife that once he got elected, there would be plenty of money laying around for him to get caught up on payments.

Only in Louisiana, folks. Only. In. Louisiana.