January 7, 2021
At 41, Senator Josh Hawley certainly qualifies as a proud boy. His “white power” salute to the crowd getting ready to storm the Capitol may be the longest lasting image that comes out of this fiasco. When it comes time to write his obituary, I hope that the lead-in is this photo. He is reputed to have used this rebellion as a fund-raising opportunity. His own newspaper says he has “blood on his hands.” And he still failed to back down from his conspiracy theories.
Hawley is part of the Ivy League mafia. He claims Stanford and Yale Law on his resume. Cruz is Princeton and Harvard. I hope these institutions consider revoking their degrees for behavior unbecoming of an educated person. The standard comment about Hawley is that he knows better because he is so smart. He is probably good at absorbing information, and regurgitating it back on tests. However, both Hawley and Cruz apparently skipped ethics classes in their three years at law school. Tests certify your intelligence. Ethics training certifies that you might know what to do with the gifts that you have been given. One without the other is like having a loaded gun with no way to aim it. I went to Harvard, but that doesn’t make me a moral or ethical person. It doesn’t even make me smart.
Josh, Ted and others…make us all proud, step back, and step down.
The Spin Doctor 