SHE GOT EVERYTHING THAT UNCLE JOHN NEED

When it comes to taking it to the streets, I’m a bit long in the tooth.  But once, in the dark days of 2017, I did join a protest at the office of then-Congresswoman Martha McSally.  At the time, McSally represented AZ CD2, which rightfully belongs in perpetuity to Gabby Giffords.  But that’s water under the bridge. 

McSally lost her House seat in 2018, but failed upwards, thanks to the Republican welfare state.  John McCain’s death left a Senate seat open, and Arizona’s Republican governor picked McSally.  Her temporary term is up this year, and – in the words of Rodney Dangerfield – she can’t get no respect.

Not that she deserves much respect.  She wasn’t in her Tucson office during the protest I attended, so I asked her local office manager to relay a message:  please ask the Congresswoman to insist that Donald Trump obey the Constitution.  Not exactly controversial, I thought, since Trump had taken an oath to do just that not long before.  But her local rep said, “she’s just a second termer.”  I replied, “Why did she want the job in the first place?”  He didn’t have an answer for that.

That may be one reason why she’ll be out of a job pretty soon.  McSally chose to embrace Donald Trump, apparently unaware that everything Trump touches, dies.  At a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, she was hoping for an enthusiastic endorsement from the great man.  Instead, Trump introduced her this way:  "Just come up fast. Fast. Fast. Come on. Quick. You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick. Come on."

McSally will be an ex-senator soon, replaced by Gabby Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly.  Maybe what goes around really does come around.  Stay classy, Republicans.