Senator Hawley Calls for Ethics Probe Into Democrats Who Filed Complaint Against Him

[NightHawkeye]

From the "Tit for tat", files: Hawley Calls for Ethics Probe Into Democrats Who Filed Complaint Against Him

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Monday called for the Senate Ethics Committee to probe the Democrats who filed a complaint against him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over their objections to Electoral College votes.
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Hawley in his counter-complaint (pdf) asserted the Democrats tried linking his objections to violence with no evidence.

“They submitted their meritless complaint in potential coordination with a campaign by partisan and dark-money groups that have peddled falsehoods about me and my objection. By knowingly submitting a frivolous complaint to accomplish impermissible partisan purposes, these Senators have engaged in improper conduct that may reflect upon the Senate. The Committee should discipline these Members to ensure that the Senate’s ethics process is not weaponized for rank partisan purposes,” he wrote.​

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Doesn’t seem like he’s been so incredibly silenced to me.

 

[Hans Blaster]

What I'm wondering is:

When Hawley made his "raised fist" gesture entering the Capitol on Insurrection Day, who was he saluting? Were there Trump supporters he was gesturing to, or was it just a pose he made to be captured by the press?

 

[grasping the after wind]

What I'm wondering is:

When Hawley made his "raised fist" gesture entering the Capitol on Insurrection Day, who was he saluting? Were there Trump supporters he was gesturing to, or was it just a pose he made to be captured by the press?

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

For Balance: Josh Hawley Believes Disliking Josh Hawley Is an Act of Censorship

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Hawley seems to believe corporate donors are repressing him by refusing to give him money, as if any free-speech principle compels a business owner to hand his money to a politician even after the politician does something odious. He likewise treats his canceled book deal as a form of censorship.

Hawley isn’t wrong to see it as a rebuke. Simon & Schuster is a prestigious mainstream imprint. Regnery churns out right-wing doggerel by the metric ton. The humiliation Hawley must feel to join a list featuring the likes of Dinesh D’Souza, Diamond and Silk, and David Limbaugh (the less talented brother of the notorious talk-radio demagogue) is surely very sincere. But he has failed to articulate any principle that Simon & Schuster has violated by deciding not to promote the views of an insurrectionist.

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The most comic touch may be Hawley’s attempt to connect his own travails to that of his audience. Today the man on the cross may be him, but tomorrow it may be you losing a lucrative source of campaign funds or being forced to accept the indignity of a Regnery book contract. The very thought must send a tremor of fear down the spines of the Post’s readers. What cheesy publishing outlets will they be consigned to if they abet the violent overthrow of the government?​

 

[7thKeeper]

A bunch of pictures of other people doesn't really answer who or for what purpose Hawley made the gesture to. So besides trying to distract, were these supposed to serve any other purpose?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

How many of these preceded a riot?

 

[A2SG]

For Balance: Josh Hawley Believes Disliking Josh Hawley Is an Act of Censorship

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Hawley seems to believe corporate donors are repressing him by refusing to give him money, as if any free-speech principle compels a business owner to hand his money to a politician even after the politician does something odious. He likewise treats his canceled book deal as a form of censorship.

Hawley isn’t wrong to see it as a rebuke. Simon & Schuster is a prestigious mainstream imprint. Regnery churns out right-wing doggerel by the metric ton. The humiliation Hawley must feel to join a list featuring the likes of Dinesh D’Souza, Diamond and Silk, and David Limbaugh (the less talented brother of the notorious talk-radio demagogue) is surely very sincere. But he has failed to articulate any principle that Simon & Schuster has violated by deciding not to promote the views of an insurrectionist.

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The most comic touch may be Hawley’s attempt to connect his own travails to that of his audience. Today the man on the cross may be him, but tomorrow it may be you losing a lucrative source of campaign funds or being forced to accept the indignity of a Regnery book contract. The very thought must send a tremor of fear down the spines of the Post’s readers. What cheesy publishing outlets will they be consigned to if they abet the violent overthrow of the government?​

Seems to me Hawley is auditioning for that new reality show, Who Wants To Be The Next Trump.

-- A2SG, not quite enough of a cartoon character for that, though....but he is close.....