When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) compared Republicans’ midterm reaction to urinating multiple times on Wednesday.
His biggest audience was on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show, which airs at 9 p.m. Eastern but became the wee hours.
Exhorting fellow Republicans to stay active in the lame-duck Senate session after the Democrats retook both the House and Senate in the election, Kennedy began his stream of consciousness: “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. And let me put it another way — a smart man washes his hands after he urinates. A wise man doesn’t urinate on his hands. We Republicans in the Senate need to stop thinking we’re so smart.”
“This was not a normal midterm election loss,” he continued to Hannity, who has downplayed the Democratic takeover of Congress as normal. “If you think that, congratulations, you’re stupid. As my friend [Sen.] Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) says, Toby and Edith, they didn’t stay home. They voted for Democrats, and we’ve gotta get Toby and Edith back. ... We’ve got 50-plus days while Republicans are still in charge.”
Earlier on the Senate floor, Kennedy leaked his folksy analogy to win back voters with a twist: “A smart man washes his hands after he urinates. A wise man doesn’t urinate on his hands. We need to stop urinating on our hands.”
In his chat with Hannity, Kennedy listed a few bills he sees as a priority before Democrats take over in January, including measures to increase home sellers’ tax-free profit, to ban stock trading by members of Congress, and to further military spending.
“Now, those things are not gonna solve all of Toby and Edith’s problems, but at least they’ll show Toby and Edith that we’re trying to do something,” the senator said.