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Josh Hawley thinks he can feed on the offal and carrion of the GOP. Thanks for reading Michael’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. He thinks we forgot he cheered the street trash attacking the Capitol by raising a fist in support and then announced he would not vote to certify Biden’s election. Another disingenuous Republican slimeball slithers out of the woodwork. This man, who was part of an active crew of traitors who tried to overthrow an honest election and install a dictator in the Oval Office, has emerged from his rat hole with the intent of hiding his crimes behind yet another wall of lies. Hawley, the craven coward who fled in fear like the adopted daughter of a lascivious stepdad when the street-trash mob sought out congresspeople to assault, once again pretends to be a friend of working class when in fact he voted against almost every aspect of the Social Safety Net. Now, in an attempt to exploit the devastation of MAGA and the Republicans still in congress, like the snake he is, is turning against those he wholeheartedly supported when he pandered for their friendship. Honor, integrity and rectitude are nowhere within his character, rather deceit, hypocrisy and duplicity better describe this pathetic, sniveling wreckage of a man. See this – boldface mine: GOP senator rebukes Republicans after midterms bloodbath: ‘When you abandon working people…’ Story by Kathryn Wilkens • 1h • 2 min read Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) delivered a blistering rebuke of his own party Monday following last week’s midterm election bloodbath, accusing Republicans of abandoning working-class America and warning that voters had made their frustrations clear. Democrats swept both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections, prompting growing calls within the GOP for a reckoning over the party’s direction. “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,” Hawley told CNN’s Manu Raju and other reporters on Capitol Hill. The Missouri Republican also took aim at his party’s legislative priorities in comments reported by Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio. “When you cut Medicaid but you fund data centers, when you cut rural hospital funding, then you fund Planned Parenthood, when you let the cost of healthcare for working people go through the roof but you can’t do anything for them on other issues of affordability from fertilizer to gas and everything else — yeah, you know what? The American public doesn’t like that very much.” Asked whether Senate Republicans needed new leadership, Hawley declined to commit his support to the current slate. “I’m not going to pledge my vote to leadership. I’ll tell you that.” His comments came as a group of Republican senators pushed to postpone Tuesday’s scheduled leadership elections, arguing that the party needed more time to confront the reasons behind its losses. According to Axios, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Budd (R-NC), and John Kennedy (R-LA) signed a letter seeking a delay. Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and Jim Banks (R-IN) also publicly supported the effort. Johnson went further, threatening to walk out if the elections proceeded on Tuesday. “I simply won’t participate in business as usual,” Johnson wrote on X. “An election defeat of this magnitude demands change.”