Louisiana Voice

You’ve seen him/her at your job and you’ve probably shaken your head and laughed at the pathetic scene of the corporate or bureaucratic butt-kisser who tries to be the first one in the supervisor’s/manager’s/CEO’s office every morning to perform the obligatory suck-up chores. We derisively called that “snorkeling.”

In much the same absurd manner, we are seeing every day the spectacle of members of Congress, political appointees, favor-seekers, college presidents and governors acting out identical roles as they line up to kiss the ring of Clown Prince Donald Trump.

In the end, that ring is going to be one of those water-squirters that only drench the faces of those wretched sycophants, but that’s another story for another day.

I watch with growing amusement or befuddlement – I still haven’t decided which – as people like Mike Johnson, John Kennedy, Julia Letlow, Steve KKK Scalise and Clay Higgins drool all over ol’ Yam Tits in hopes of scoring an invitation to visit Tub-A-Lardo down in Florida.

And, of course, you can add one Jeff Landry to that list (if you hadn’t already).

Each of the aforementioned, along with scores of others, can’t wait to get their cues from Cadet Bone Spurs on what to say and do next to further his ever-changing agenda.

Take Landry, for example. First, he was all for solar energy – until he wasn’t. He wasn’t the moment el-Trumpo decided to eschew solar in favor of the fossil fuel barons.

Then there was the decision to order the National Guard into Washington to restore law and order to a city that ranks 80^th in crime rate among major cities in the U.S. with a violent crime rate of 9.8 per 100,000 population.

So, what was Landry’s reaction to that? Naturally, he’s going to DEPLOY 135 members of the Louisiana Guard to that war zone. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, is it not?

But wait! You want to guess the third-worst violent crime rate in America? It’s in Letlow’s district. It’s MONROE and the violent crime rate in that city is 26.3 per 100,000, more than 2½ times that of D.C.

How about the 10^th highest crime rate? Well, that’s in Alexandria, also in Letlow’s district. Wonder if Landry’s considered dispatching Guard units to those cities to quell the unrest?

At least New Orleans (33^rd highest) and Baton Rouge (49^th) aren’t in her district but are in fact, safely embedded in Democratic districts.

But wait! The city with the 73^rd highest violent crime rate (10.4 per 100,000 population) is Bossier City. That’s not only in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s district, but, egad! It’s his home town!

At least Shreveport (90^th worst) with a violent crime rate of 9.6 per 100,000 is 10 places better than that hellhole D.C. – by .2 of a point.

In terms of HOMICIDES, New Orleans ranks second-highest with 46 per 100,000 (Jackson, Mississippi, is highest with 49 per 100,000) among medium-sized metropolitan areas.

Baton Rouge is fourth-highest in its homicide rate at 23 per 100,000. Both of those, as noted earlier, are in the hands of the Democrats. But coming in at 7^th highest is Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, with a homicide rate of 15 per 100,000. Jefferson is represented by Scalise.

Washington, D.C. homicide rate? Fourth-highest among large metro areas.

So, now that he has gone on record as opposed to crime and willing to call up the Guard to enforce law and order, there’s only one thing left for Landry to do.

He must now dispatch Guard units to New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Alexandria, Bossier City and Shreveport.

I mean, all this rampant crime’s gotta stop, even if we have to go all the way to Washington.