Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy missed the runoff in the state’s GOP Senate primary last night, finishing third. This means his tenure as U.S. Senator will end in 2027.
Well, good. Cassidy voted to convict President Donald Trump after he was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House in a purely partisan abuse of the impeachment process. Emulating Liz Cheney is not a good look for a Republican Senator.
Or anyone, really.
In 2021, Cassidy joined Democrats and a small band of bitter anti-Trump Republicans in voting to convict Trump after his second impeachment trial. Trump had called Cassidy a “disloyal disaster” and warned Louisiana voters that the senator was “BAD FOR LOUISIANA.” Well, convicting Trump would have definitely been bad for the nation, the stability of our government, and the institution of the Presidency. The second impeachment, properly mocked as the “snap impeachment” by Prof. Jonathan Turley, occurred without thorough House hearings, witnesses and an investigation. It was not designed to remove a rogue President, because Trump had already lost his re-election bid. The case that the riot at the Capitol was an “insurrection” was always legal nonsense, and the accusation that President Trump was somehow an accessory to the criminal acts of the drunk and stupid rioters never made sense.
I am pretty certain that the dual abuse of the impeachment process by the Democrats has effectively killed the device as a necessary fail-safe on Presidential misconduct. Now impeachment has been reduced to a cheap weapon of political warfare, and Cassidy was willing to cross party lines to endorse what was a Constitutional debacle. Never mind loyalty…the problem with voting for an unjust impeachment of one’s own party’s POTUS isn’t a lack of loyalty, it is an excess of stupidity, judgement, and responsibility.
Good riddance.
Ethics Alarms 
By this logic, Patrice Cullors, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Charles M. Blow would be accessories to the riots in 2020.
But of course, these people would not apply this logic. For them, the Capotil Riot was an Insurrection®™, while rioting in 2020 (even going so far as to vandalize as a federal courthouse, and attack Secret Service agents guarding the White House) was Fighting White Supremacy®™.
Those in Congress should also know on which team they play. You should not vote against the key interests of your own party in a misguided effort to reach across the isle and a misguide attempt at statesmanship. This applies to those who supported impeachment of Trump, but also those who stop redistricting in the GPS’s favor (hello Indiana Republicans!), vote against important tax bills and budget (hello Senator Massie!), or are not on board with restoring the integrity of elections by passing the SAVE act (hello Senator Thom Tillis).
When Democrats have the trifecta they are in power, when Republicans have the trifecta they are merely in office as too many Republicans in safe states vote like Democrats on key issues.
I suspect that some Republicans were expecting reprisals against all Republicans who supported Trump and people like Cassidy may have been trying to avoid such reprisals. My own state’s senators basically begged the Democrats not to hurt him, because he is one of ‘the good ones’.
That would make him a coward; and cowardice is a disqualifier for office. If you are in office you are supposed to have a spine and stand for something.