I recently recommended that Ilya Shapiro, scheduled to become executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Constitutional Studies, be given a week or two, probably sans pay, to think over the advisability of the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Constitutional Studies talkin’ smack every time a Democratic president makes a Supreme Court selection Ilya doesn’t like. So what should I recommend that White House press secretary Jen Psaki do when, after Sen. Josh Hawley suggested that President Biden’s foreign policy regarding Russia and Ukraine is needlessly confrontational and indeed exactly opposite the best interests of the United States, and Ukraine, and Russia, Ms. Psaki said as follows:
Well, if you are digesting Russian misinformation and parroting Russian talking points, you are not aligned with long-standing, bipartisan American values, which are to stand up for the sovereignty of countries like Ukraine.
But wait, there’s more:
That applies to Sen. Hawley, but it also applies to others who may be parroting the talking points of Russian propagandist leaders.
Oh, yeah? Well, I guess that most definitely includes me, Jen Psaki. If pressed, I might easily have picked Sen. Hawley as my least favorite Republican, but I’m afraid I could now pick Ms. Psaki as my least favorite Democrat. It seems to me that a White House press secretary should at least have a nodding acquaintance with the First Amendment, and Jen baby clearly can’t meet that test. Unfortunately, other Democrats, like Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, for example, suffer from a similar malady.
Resign, Jennifer Psaki, resign. Resign, and do something at least marginally more honest than your current activity. Like scamming blind seniors out of their Social Security checks, for example. It would be a real step up.
Afterwords
Josh “Fist Pump” Hawley (R-MO) is indeed one of the very worst Republicans on Capitol Hill. To make Josh Hawley look sympathetic takes a truly massive blast of double-barreled ignorance, arrogance, and stupidity. But dear sweet Jenny was clearly up to the task.
