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· Michael’s Substack Josh Hawley voted for the Medicaid cuts he now blames for the GOP midterm rout. Michael McDermott 14 minutes ago As reported yesterday, Sen. Josh Hawley, noted liar, hypocrite and generally all-around pandering creep, thought he could hide his involvement in the 2020 insurrection attempt by diverting the attention of the electorate. He thought if he now pretended to be a supporter of the working class instead of an American hating MAGA mutt he could camouflage his actual voting record and pull the wool over the eyes of his constituents. Didn’t work, Bozo. Your record has surfaced and proven you to be as despicable as any back-alley sewer rat, save rats rarely turn on their own. Caught with your pants down, ( not an unusual circumstance in the Republican congress) and still you pander because you have no semblance of honor or decency, no integrity or probity, and no chance of ever being respected by decent folk. No, you’ll tell any lie, turn on any friend, and practice deceit and duplicity to enrich yourself no matter the harm you cause to your constituency. See this – Boldface mine: Thanks for reading Michael’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Josh Hawley voted for the Medicaid cuts he now blames for the GOP midterm rout. Story by IdahoLearningNews Editorial Team • 4h • 4 min read Republicans spent Tuesday’s postmortem searching for someone to blame for losing both chambers of Congress. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri had an answer — and an inconvenient problem of his own: he voted for the legislation behind the Medicaid cuts he now calls the reason his party lost. Back on Capitol Hill Monday after the election rout, Hawley told reporters his party had walked away from its own coalition. “When you abandon pro-lifers, when you abandon the needy, when you abandon the poor, when you abandon working people, the American people might have something to say about that,” he said, delivering one of the bluntest self-assessments any Senate Republican has offered since the votes were counted. The scale of the loss is not in dispute. Democrats won both chambers, flipping roughly 42 House seats and picking up seven Senate seats, leaving the GOP shut out of power for the final two years of President Trump’s term. What makes Hawley’s critique awkward is his own voting record: per CrowdBlue and Mediaite reporting, he supported the reconciliation bill that made the Medicaid cuts law — the very policy he now blames for the defeat. Speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju and other reporters, Hawley ticked through a list of grievances aimed at his own conference. “When you cut Medicaid but you fund data centers, when you cut rural hospital funding,” he said, “the American public doesn’t like that very much.” The grievance list went beyond healthcare, touching pro-lifers, the poor, and working families — a critique of his own party’s governing record delivered from inside the conference. Hawley has also declined to say his vote will go to the current Senate Republican leadership team, a notable stance with leadership elections on the calendar. Hawley is not alone in his frustration. Republicans returning to Washington after the drubbing were, in the words of Rep. Richard McCormick of Georgia, “p—ed off” — pointing fingers over spending, fundraising, and messaging. Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas said he would grade Congress an F, calling it “a horrible election year.” See more Here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/josh-hawley-voted-for-the-medicaid-cuts-he-now-blames-for-the-gop-midterm-rout/ar-AA2habJL?