Louisiana Voice

Five of Louisiana’s House members apparently have no problem with the rash of attacks on Asian-Americans just as the same five don’t see any reason to investigate the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters that left feces on corridor walls, widespread vandalism, and five people dead.

Never mind that Congressional Repugnantcans spent more time investigating Benghazi than it did 9/11. (Don’t believe me? Click HERE.)

House Resolution 275 called for the condemning of the “horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021, and reaffirming the House of Representative’s commitment to combating hate, bigotry, and violence against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.”

Democrat Troy Carter voted for the resolution which passed the full House by a 245-180 vote. Only 30 Republicans voted in favor of the resolution.

Neither Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, Julia Letlow nor Garret Graves, Repugnantcans one and all, were among those 30.

So, what would be the harm in those who make our laws coming together, regardless of party affiliation, to condemn the spate of violence against Asian-Americans?

Beats the hell out of me, but Louisiana’s five Repugnantcans just couldn’t bring themselves to display enough spine to stand up for human rights and against the incomprehensible mentality of inflicting harm on others because of the color of their skin.

Unless, of course, the Repugnantcan Party at some point decided that it was no longer the Party of Lincoln, but the Party of Bigotry, which, come to think of it, isn’t that much of a stretch.

It also may be the Party of Anarchy.

Those same five Repugnantcans joined 170 other Repugnantcans in voting against House Resolution 3233, the “National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act.

HR 3233 passed by a 252-175 vote, with 35 Repugnantcans voting with 217 Democrats in favor of the resolution.

And again, the Louisiana Five were not among those 35. The only yea vote from Louisiana again came from Democrat Troy Carter.

You think maybe the Repugnantcans were that hesitant to vote in favor of investigating Benghazi in an effort to bury Hillary Clinton? Not on your life.

Without going into the merits or lack of for Clinton, it’s worthwhile to note that Congress, led by Repugnantcans frothing at the mouth, spent two years and four months investigating the deaths of four people at the U.S. embassy in Libya. In case anyone’s forgotten, five died as a result of the Capitol insurrection.

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Rep. Kevin McCarthy said back in 2016. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?” That’s the same Kevin McCarthy who now wants no part of a Jan. 6 investigation.

But 28 months investigating Benghazi? That’s longer than congressional investigations into 9/11, Watergate, the JFK assignation or Pearl Harbor.

But Scalise, Higgins, Johnson, Letlow and Graves just couldn’t see the need to investigate how a screaming horde with nooses, guns, a bomb or two, and God knows what else was goaded by the former guy into storming the Capitol screaming about hanging Mike Pence, killing Nancy Pelosi and other members while actually killing one police officer.

Some “tourist stroll” that was.

The Fantastic Five just couldn’t bring themselves to probe how an orange-toupeed, con man managed to coax thousands of rabid followers to Washington to wreak havoc and to even kill a Capitol police officer, why members of the active military were among the rioters, why the U.S. Capitol was breached so easily and how any of the members under siege at that time could possibly equate the maniacal lunatics to a group of tourists strolling through the Capitol.

There are only two possible explanations. The five are (a) cowards who are deathly afraid of Trump, Jim Johnson, Devin Nunes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Madison Cawthorn, Clay Higgins, Steve Scalise, John N. Kennedy, Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Matt Gaetz, Mitch McConnell and the other mouth-breathers who somehow got themselves elected to the House or Senate, or (b) are themselves advocates of violence, discord, and lawlessness.

Whichever the case, be assured that these people do not represent the values and principles this country stands for as set out in the U.S. Constitution – a document they’ve likely never read.

Unfortunately, they likely do represent their respective constituents, the people who put them in office.

And therein lies the problem.

As someone said long before I first wrote it in a column, we get the government we deserve.

Politics is cyclical. The pendulum swings both ways and the national mood will shift.

Those who deride a free press are seeing what happens in countries like Belarus when a reporter dares speak out against the country’s leader. That’s the kind of state-sanctioned terrorist acts against a dissident reporter that Trump so admires but one day, his supporters of today will sit back and wonder whatever possessed them to vote for such a monster. Only the hardest of the hard-core supporters will continue in their unquestioning blind loyalty.

One day, Congress will be rid of parasites like the aforementioned architects of the modern Repugnantcan Party.

We can only hope it won’t be too late.