So much for Will Hurd

| 3:55 pm EST November 21, 2019
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Congressman Will Hurd is what passes for a “moderate” Republican these days. He doesn’t fully buy into Donald Trump’s psychotic agenda. He’s not maniacally anti-immigrant in the way that Trump is. He doesn’t scream and yell in the way that Trump and his loyalists do. But as Will Hurd reminded us today, he still sucks.

Will Hurd is retiring from the House at the end of this term. Why? You’d have to ask him. The Republican Party is now the Trump Party, so maybe he feels like his political career is no longer viable. Or maybe he’s just tired of Trump’s crap. But he’s clearly not that tired of Trump’s crap, because at the end of today’s incredibly incriminating and damning televised impeachment hearings, Hurd announced that he’s seen no evidence that Trump is guilty of anything.

Here’s the kicker. Will Hurd is retiring, meaning he doesn’t have to run in the 2020 election. So he doesn’t have to kiss up to Donald Trump. He could vote to impeach Trump, and it wouldn’t matter if Trump spent every day trashing Hurd on Twitter for the next year. Yet Hurd has to get a job after this, and there are only a couple places that washed up Republicans can get hired these days. One is Fox News. The other is a Republican lobbying firm funded by conservative billionaires.

In other words, Will Hurd may be giving up his career as a Republican office holder, but he appears to be trying to keep his options open in terms of working for the conservative establishment going forward. Hurd must be afraid that the conservative powers-that-be won’t hire him if he votes to impeach Trump, which could harm the GOP’s overall chances in 2020 up and down the ballot.

We saw Jeff Flake give up his career as a Senate Republican because he hated Donald Trump. But even on his way out the door, Flake voted to confirm psychotic monster Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, because that’s what Flake’s overlords wanted. Will Hurd is now going out in the same shameful manner. It’s the latest reminder that the only good Republican is a defeated Republican. Get out and vote.