"A country as great as ours deserves better [than him]"

 

“On Jan. 2,  U.S. Sen. John Neeley Kennedy signed a statement alongside 10 other Republican colleagues declaring his intention to vote against the certification of the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election. Four days later, a group of violent right-wing insurgents attacked the U.S. Capitol, halting the Congressional count of those same electoral votes...

“Later that day, after bearing witness to the deadly consequences of politicians undermining the integrity of our elections, Sen. Kennedy joined five other Republican senators in voting against the certification of the Arizona electoral votes, his intentions apparently unmoved by the events that took place just hours before…

“Sen. Kennedy understands perfectly well that this was a fair election. If he truly believed the election to be fraudulent, would he not oppose the seating of his Republican colleagues that were elected to office on the same ballots he supposedly questions? Would he not object to the results of the congressional race that re-elected fellow Republican Bill Cassidy to the U.S Senate?

“Sen. Kennedy’s vote against the election certification was not the principled act of defiance he made it out to be, but rather a self-interested charade. Sen. Kennedy sought to further his political fortunes by playing into the ‘Stop the Steal’ farce to earn goodwill among the pro-Trump base. Perhaps he thought his actions would earn him a congratulatory tweet from the president, or an ‘I-owe-you’ in the form of a future rally or political endorsement. Even more stomach-churning is the way Sen. Kennedy has compromised public trust in the election in order to fundraise for his campaign…” (Claire Sullivan, KLSU, Louisiana State University).

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Neeley Kennedy (R-Louisiana) released the following statement after the Senate rejected both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

“The vote today [February 5] was nothing more than a proxy vote on President Trump. It was a partisan impeachment in both houses. Our founders did not intend impeachment to be used this way. I believe Speaker Pelosi’s attempt to normalize impeachment and to turn it into a routine political weapon was a mistake. In fact, it was reckless. A country as great as ours deserves better, and so do her people.”