A Democrat erupts at Josh Hawley, and a 'loudness' gap is revealed [View all]

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“Democrats need to make more noise,” Sen. Brian Schatz told me. “We have to scream from the rooftops, because this is a battle for the free world now.”
I contacted the Hawaii Democrat to talk about his extraordinary eruption at Sen. Josh Hawley on the Senate floor Thursday night. Schatz ripped his Missouri Republican colleague over his hold on a senior staffing nominee to the Defense Department, even as the U.S. is calibrating its response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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But that was the superficial cause of the eruption. The deeper catalyst was how Hawley is doing this, a stance that’s saturated in almost bottomless levels of bad faith. That’s the real topic of Schatz’s tirade, and you should watch all of it:

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This raises some questions: Why don’t Democrats create moments like this more often? Are there other ways of getting loud, as Schatz did here, that don’t degrade our politics and are substantively and politically productive?

What sparked Schatz’s ire is Hawley’s justification for his hold on President Biden’s nominees, particularly Hawley’s claim that Biden isn’t delivering sufficient military aid to Ukraine fast enough. Schatz also blasted Hawley’s demand that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin resign over the Afghanistan withdrawal to get his holds lifted.

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