I rarely make predictions anymore: past ones have blown up in my face. It was messy. One prediction I was willing to make over and over again was that Dr. Senator Bill Cassidy’s reelection bid was doomed. After Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Julia Letlow, the time is nigh. And that is why Bill Cassidy is malaka of the week.
This is Cassidy’s second time in the malakatude barrel. The first time was over a weak ass 2017 health care plan as part of Republican efforts to replace and repeal the ACA.
During the Bobby Junior confirmation circus, I wrote an open letter to Cassidy urging him to do the right thing and reject the crackpot nominee. Instead, Cassidy cast the decisive vote in the committee. He told the world that Bobby Junior promised to be a good boy. Kennedy lied. Cassidy obviously doesn’t have a bullshit detector.
After the vote, I wrote a post with a spot-on title, Bill Cassidy: All Profile & No Courage. My worst fears have been realized with Bobby Junior in charge of federal health care policy. Cassidy has criticized MAHA mania BUT he could have stopped it. So much for the Hippocratic oath. In Cassidy’s case, hypocritical oath is more like it.
Cassidy is paying the price for voting to convict Trump at his second impeachment. It was the sole principled act of his political career. Why he thought the Insult Comedian would forgive and forget is beyond me. Retribution is all that matters to Trump. All that matters to Cassidy is his senate seat, which is slipping away as I write this.
Since Cassidy’s reelection bid was doomed by his 2021 vote, he should have gone down fighting instead of groveling. But groveling is what MAGA Republican politicians do best. Cassidy is among the worst offenders: As a former public health doctor, he should have known better than to support Bobby Junior, but he was too afraid of President Pennywise and the Clownfish to do the right thing. Ironically, doing the wrong thing didn’t help him. It just made him look pathetic and weak.
Team Cassidy reached out to Democrats via text last weekend. I got one, marked it as spam, then deleted it. It was an exercise in futility. Here’s why: Thanks to Landry, the Gret Stet Of Louisiana now has party primaries in federal races. The lege had our hapless senior senator in mind. If Team Cassidy thinks that I’ll change my voter registration to vote for the least bad GOPer, they’re in for a rude awakening. Fuck off, y’all.
Julia Letlow is Cassidy’s Trump endorsed opponent. If elected, she’ll be Mike Johnson in a frock. Like Speaker Yellowbelly, she’ll owe her election to the Kaiser Of Chaos. He’ll expect subservience from Letlow. I expect her to deliver.
In her campaign launch video, Letlow hid behind the word that should not be applied to MAGA GOPers:
“A state as conservative as ours? We shouldn’t have to wonder about how our senator will vote when the pressure’s on,” the congresswoman says in her launch video. “Louisiana deserves conservative champions, leaders who will not flinch.”
Ain’t nothing conservative about MAGA Republicanism. They’re radicals dressing up their extremism by calling it conservatism. Is occupying Minnesota conservative? Is destroying NATO conservative? Not in my book.
Repeat after me: Don’t call them conservatives.
The bit about leaders who will not flinch is unintentionally hilarious. That’s all Bill Cassidy, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins, John Neely Kennedy, and Letlow herself have done in Congress. They’re flinchers, not champions. And that is why Dr. Senator Bill Cassidy is malaka of the week.
The last word goes to Dave Edmunds with a song whose title aptly describes the state of the Cassidy campaign: