John Shadegg – the cowardly congressman

The GOP continues raising the volume of the rhetoric criticizing the Justice Department’s decision to try KSM and cohorts in a New York federal court.

Joining the fun- direct from the floor of the House of Representatives-is Rep. John Shadegg, the Arizona Republican who we last saw using a seven month old baby as a prop when grandstanding against health care.

Now, Rep. Shadegg is showing a different side of his personality. And it’s not pretty.

Are you kidding?

After seeing the video, I phoned up a friend of mine who is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and who happens to be a Republican. I suggested he might want to watch the video. As I waited on the phone for him to finish, I could hear him letting out  bursts of laughter. When he came back on the line, the judge asked me if I was sure this guy was a Republican as he seemed a whole lot more like one of those ‘chicken sh** liberal types.’

Apparently, Rep. Shadegg doesn’t know very much about life on the bench in America’s big cities today. Threats? Kidnapping? Murdering witnesses and sometimes the judges themselves? Welcome to the everyday trial tactics of street gangs and organized criminals all over the nation. This stuff is standard operating procedure and what every big city judge and court officer sign up for simply by showing up to work each day.

Fortunately, these judicial officers have a whole lot more guts than Rep. Shadegg.

As for Shadegg’s concern for the safety of Mayor Bloomberg’s daughters, I’m sure Bloomberg will be most appreciative of the security warning as I doubt the Mayor has ever had to consider security risks to his family in the past. Why would it? He’s just a multi-billionaire running the largest city in the world. Who would want to get at him or his family? No doubt, this advice is arriving just in the nick of time.

Are you watching this, Arizona? I mean, it’s not like all of your elected officials are terrified of their own shadow. Say what you want about Sen. John McCain, but the man certainly does not lack for courage.

Shadegg is just one more of these elected officials who are all too ready to sends our soldiers across the planet to die but freak out at the very thought that the bad guys might be within five hundred miles of where they live.

Shadegg’s behavior is exactly the sort that the GOP used to tell us was an example of letting the terrorists win. They were right. Shadegg may be afraid to stand up for way things are done in this country but New York is not.

Can a Congressman be censored for acting like the cowardly lion?