Five Republican senators stood up last weekend and said Rep. Max Miller of Ohio should step down. His own former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, called him “a danger.” Sen. Jon Husted, also from Ohio, piled on. So did Jim Banks of Indiana, Tim Sheehy of Montana, and Roger Marshall of Kansas. All of them said the allegations of physical abuse against Miller’s ex-wife Emily Moreno and their two-year-old daughter were too serious to ignore.
Brian Thorpe (Public domain) via Wikimedia CommonsFunny how not a single House Republican said a word.
Miller’s colleagues in the chamber where he actually serves, the people who see him every day, who share the same cafeteria and the same cloakroom? Silence. Complete, deafening silence. Not one House member has called for him to step aside.
MOs810 (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia CommonsAsk yourself who benefits from that arrangement.
U.S. Navy photo by Emily McCamy (Public domain) via Wikimedia CommonsThe senators get to look principled. They’re from other states, mostly. They don’t have to work with the guy. They can preen on Meet the Press and say “of course he should resign” and never pay a price. Banks even helpfully noted that Miller might lose the seat and endanger the House majority, saying “he should drop out if he’s endangering that seat.” As if that were the real concern here, not the alleged abuse of a toddler.
Meanwhile, the people who actually have skin in the game, the House Republicans who need that seat, are keeping their mouths shut