Yesterday marked the three-month anniversary of the hostile invasion of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of the former guy bent on interrupting the official confirmation of the 2020 presidential election won going away by Joe Biden.
In terms of overt attempts to thwart the will of the electorate, this was an unprecedented event…were it not for an eerily similar event that involved a high-ranking member of the Louisiana congressional delegation more than a year earlier in the very same building.
The date was Oct. 23, 2019, when House Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District was joined by none-other than accused pedophile Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and 39 OTHER REPUBLICAN HOUSE MEMBERS who literally forced their way past Capitol security guards (sound familiar?) into the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) to interrupt a deposition being given by a top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy in Ukraine.
To give a bit of background, protocol calls for tough screening of cell phones before they can be allowed inside the SCIF but that didn’t stop these 41 clowns, once inside, from not only bypassing risk-mitigation safeguards, but using their devices to ORDER PIZZA as if they were a bunch of college frat boys (and sorority girls) getting their kicks by pulling off some kind of bizarre prank.
It was about as serious a security breach ever recorded in the Capitol to that time and probably helped inspire the insurrection that took five lives on Jan. 6 of this year. The precedent had been set. As J.R. Ewing famously once quipped on the CBS-TV show Dallas: “Once you give up your integrity, the rest is a piece of cake.”
The Republicans have long since given up any shred of integrity and to know that a man being mentioned as a potential candidate for governor of Louisiana in 2023 participated in such a stunt is nothing short of shameful and certainly worthy of his being stripped of his committee assignments and revocation of his status as Minority Whip.
Click HERE to view a clip from Gaetz’s self-serving press conference staged during that 2019 SCIF invasion taken from Gaetz’s own congressional web page. Standing to Gaetz’s immediate right in the photo of Gaetz holding court is our very own Steve Scalise.
Folks, this isn’t typical Republican-bashing. This is serious business and it underscores just what a partisan hack Scalise really is. If he had any semblance of a soul left, he sold it long ago to his instincts of political self-serving with no thought given to the standards of behavior expected of members of Congress.
The simple fact is, no mater what your personal political philosophy may be, no matter what may be the collective thinking of your constituents, there are some things you just do not do and STORMING PAST CAPITOL SECURITY to pull off some sort of grandstanding security breach by forcing your way into a secure area should be at the top of that don’t go there list.
Scalise, by his PARTICIPATION IN THIS IDIOTIC STUNT, which itself bordered on sedition, has proven beyond any doubt that he does not possess the maturity or the political acumen to lead Louisiana as governor. He is certainly not worthy of serving as Minority Whip – though he does seem eminently qualified to represent the David Duke faction of the Republican Party comfortably ensconced in the congressional district he currently serves.
Louisiana Voice 
In light of what we now understand about the impact on the riotous mob of January 6th by the equally seditious Republican gang of 41 on October 23, 2019, all 41 participants should be disciplined in the harshest of ways.
Is it too late to discipline these 41 Republican seditionists? I certainly hope not.