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Opinion Just when you thought Josh Hawley couldn’t stoop any lower …
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in Tampa on July 22. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Take a can of beer, add light rum and stir frozen limeade concentrate into
the mixture. Voila! You’ve whipped up a cocktail known as the Missouri
Jackass <https://www.crystalmixer.com/missouri-jackass-recipe/>.
Surprisingly, the drink is not named for the state’s junior U.S. senator.
Josh Hawley (R-the nearest full-length mirror), last seen
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dashing in fear <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHOIn1Dwqk> from the Jan.
6 mob he helped incite — he was the guy who raised his fist
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as high as his ludicrously tight-fitting suit would allow — is back in the
news for his lonely stand against NATO membership for Finland and Sweden
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-set-to-vote-to-ratify-adding-sweden-finland-to-nato/2022/08/03/c9581aae-12e1-11ed-8482-06c1c84ce8f2_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4>.
In search of a position that would set him apart from his rivals among the
Senate’s young conservatives, Hawley arrived at the cockeyed notion
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that adding two robust military powers with vibrant economies would somehow
increase NATO’s burden on U.S. resources.
