Here are my observations and opinions from the news.
WANNABE PRESIDENT Corey Booker, the black Democrat senator from New Jersey, was questioning secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo during his confirmation hearing on Thursday, and what does he ask:
“So you do not believe it’s okay for two gay people to marry … is being gay a perversion … do you believe that gay sex is a perversion? Yes or no.”
Booker wasn’t interested in the presidents pending action in Syria, the up-coming meeting between President Trump and Kim Jung Un, or renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal. No, that would make sense.
The senator knew that Pompeo was a Christian who taught Sunday school, and holds the biblical view that same-sex marriage is a sin. While Pompeo holds the Christian view that everyone, regardless of his or her sexual proclivity, deserves to be treated equally with dignity and respect under the law, that didn’t stop Booker from his sad line of pursuit.
“Booker clearly thinks people who hold views that vary from one very narrow vein of liberal orthodoxy must be purged and publicly humiliated,” – Bre Payton, The Federalist
One can only imagine Booker’s campaign for the presidency.
SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-NH), like Booker, chose not to ask questions relevant to someone being confirmed for secretary of state. “Do you think Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation is a witch hunt?” the former school teacher asked. “Does the president have the authority to fire Special Counsel Mueller on his own?” Of course, Pompeo refused to get sucked in with a comment.
In a letter to the editor of seacoastonline.com, a resident of New Hampshire Ferris Saad, stated that he was “embarrassed” by Shaheen’s line of questions and said that she is the perfect example of ‘The Peter Principle.’ “It’s too bad NH has to tolerate her occupancy as our senator for the remainder of her term,” he added.
COUNT ON DEMOCRATS to take advantage of hearings like this to attack the Trump presidency. The confirmation hearing for CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel will be another opportunity for the “get Trump” Dems prior to the midterms.
JAMES COMEY WAS COCKSURE – In his new book, the disgraced former FBI Director James Comey reveals that he wasn’t concerned about reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton just 11 days before the election because media polls indicated she would win.
“It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or it Donald Trump were ahead in the polls. But I don’t know,” he writes.
Oh,my.
