There are those in the Gret Stet of Louisiana who somehow think Steve Scalise is capable of changing his stripes. Remember when he was gravely wounded in the Congressional baseball team shooting? Some folks in South Louisiana hoped that he would modify his position on gun control. He, of course, did not.
You’re probably asking yourself why do some people kid themselves about this mook? Here’s a bullet list:
- He’s “nice” in social situations.
- He’s friends with Cedric Richmond.
- Having him in a leadership position is “good for Louisiana.”
The latter point is an editorial page standby. It’s a relic of the days when we had Congresscritters who brought home the boudin/bacon for the Gret Stet. Those days ended in 2014 with Mary Landrieu’s defeat.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Sunday made clear that he stands by former President Trump as he took great pains to deflect from Trump’s incitement of the mob behind the deadly Capitol insurrection last month.
Scalise claimed on ABC News that he just simply “ended” up at Mar-a-Lago last week to do “some fundraising” in Florida.
“I was in Florida doing some fundraising throughout a number of parts of Florida, ended up at Mar-a-Lago and the president reached out and we visited,” Scalise said. “I hadn’t seen him since he had left the White House and it was actually good to catch up with him. I noticed he was a lot more relaxed than his four years in the White House.”
After saying that his conversation with Trump in Florida was “more about how he’s doing now and what he’s planning on doing and how his family is doing,” Scalise was pressed on comments by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who blamed Trump for inciting the mob behind the deadly Capitol insurrection hours after the attack last month — only to later backtrack on his rebuke of the former president’s actions.
Holding fast to his loyalty to the former president, Scalise said that there was “a lot of blame to go around.”
“At the end of the day, the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6th, it was a disgrace and they need to be held accountable,” Scalise said.
Scalise asked after Trump’s family during his Mar-a-Doorn visit. See, I told you he was “nice.” And he didn’t blame Nancy Pelosi for the mob violence. How “nice” is that?
He also continued to dodge the notion that Joe Biden won the election:
“Once the electors are counted, yes, he’s the legitimate president,” Scalise said. “But if you’re going to ignore the fact that there were states that did not follow their own state legislatively set laws, that’s the issue at heart, that millions of people still are not happy with and don’t want to see happen again.”
Aww, he cares about people’s feelings. How “nice” is that?
Steve Scalise is smart, not nice.
He’s smart enough to sand off the rougher edges of his repellant ideology in polite company. That’s “nice”?
He’s smart enough not to take a dump on the living room carpet in broad daylight like the Kaiser of Chaos. That’s “nice”?
He’s smart enough to brag about being a more respectable David Duke then deny saying it for years. That’s “nice”?
The good news is that many people in the Gret Stet of Louisiana don’t buy Steve Scalise’s “nice” act. The bad news is that there aren’t enough to vote him out of office. My condolences to the folks in New Orleans who are stuck with him as their Congressman. He ain’t going nowhere. How “nice” is that?
The last word goes to the Steve Scalise butt-plug that made its First Draft debut in July 2015.
When I woke up one morning in 1991 in Breaux Bridge and realized that if David Duke had been elected governor the night before I would have to leave the state, I also wrote off 90% of white Louisianans as either openly racist white trash or genteel crypto-racist white trash – including my entire family.
All he cares about is the Speakership with a solid QOP/KKK majority.
Well, it is possible that Scalise has been turned and visited the court of the Pretender at Mar-a-Lago wearing a wire. I think that this theory is at least a bit more credible than all that Q stuff, but it’s main selling point is that it is about the only positive construction that can be put on Scalise kowtowing to the deposed dictator. We should try to be positive.