Kansas City Star editorial:  “Missouri’s best-known insurrectionist, Sen. Josh Hawley, is still trying to accomplish what he could not pull off with his power-to-the-rioters raised fist on Jan 6.  You’re not going to believe this, but in a Senate floor speech, he called on President Joe Biden to resign.  It’s a difficult speech to watch, shamelessly exploiting as it does the deaths of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen for political gain.

“But despite its contradictions, hyperbole and misreading of history, we must watch, because Hawley’s threat to our republic is real and ongoing. The senator’s desire to overthrow the people’s choice for president has not abated.  ‘This president is a disgrace,’ Hawley intones. ‘He had dishonored this country with his shameful leadership in this crisis. And it is time for him to resign.’  Hawley is referring to our recent withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Let the record show what Hawley desperately wants us to forget: He was an enthusiastic supporter of abandoning Afghanistan — not on Aug. 30, when the final troops departed, but months earlier, in May.  ‘President Biden should withdraw troops in Afghanistan by May 1, as the Trump administration planned, but better late than never,’ he tweeted on April 13.  ‘It’s time for this forever war to end.’  Apparently, Hawley’s imitation of a peacenik has a sell-by date, which is whenever the Missouri Republican decides there are partisan points to be made.”