Dems throw a tantrum after one of their own endorses Mike Lawler

Democrats spent Monday gnashing their teeth in between sips of their tear-stained coffee after Rep.Jared Golden, a retiring member of their caucus from Maine, endorsed Republican Rep.

Mike Lawler’s re-election campaign in a stunning op-ed.Arguing that the House “needs fewer members who treat the job as a stage and more who treat it as work,” Golden deemed Lawler a “true partner” before imploring voters to “find the members who pass laws with the other party, and keep them.”If you listen closely, you can hear the echoes of the resulting howls even now.“Mike Lawler is a partisan hack and Trump sycophant,” declared Hakeem Jeffries, the hapless House minority leader.“In desperation, he is peddling an 11th hour endorsement from a retiring Congressmember who represents an out of town district more than 400 miles away ..

.Mike Lawler can try to run from his extremist record.

We will never let him hide.”Who’s desperate, again? And what must Lawler have called Jeffries’ mother?The Bulwark’s Tim Miller struck a similarly — and characteristically — shrill note.“Lawler has been a complete Trump shill who has done nothing meaningful to slow his agenda and Cait Conley is a mainstream Democrat what the f–k are you doing?” he asked while presumably shaking his fist at the sky.A dutiful Rep.Gregory Meeks lifted his talking points directly from Jeffries’ scornful word-salad statement (“Look, if Mike Lawler wants to tout an endorsement from a Democratic member from hundreds of miles away, he can do that .

..”)And Hasan Piker, in a bit of mental gymnastics for which he is woefully unequipped, chimed in to try to channel the anger at Golden back toward a Jew: New Jersey Democrat Rep.

Josh Gottheimer.It’s been an undignified, if representative, 24 hours for Team Donkey.Jeffries, Miller & Co.hope you won’t notice that they’re outright lying about Lawler’s record.The Hudson Valley congressman was ranked the fourth most bipartisa...