Commentary
Democrats still don’t understand … they lost, despite their multi-year effort to keep Donald Trump out of the White House for a second term. And, despite his overwhelming victory that has given him a mandate, at least to close the border and remove bad actor migrants, make our streets safe again, and to “drill baby drill” our way back to energy independence, the left is still at it.
While it was the Democrat Party, during the campaign, that constantly talked about the risk to Democracy that a Trump victory posed and insisted that he pledge to acknowledge the winner, it is the left that still fails to recognize that Trump won, and it is the left that is now attempting to block his cabinet nominees and his effort to Make America Great Again.
As the Senate confirmations began this week, Democrats should be relieved that most Americans are not watching their antics, but if the truth be known, that’s precisely why they believe they can make fools of themselves, and their constituents won’ t know how.
Take Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who confronted defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth with his statement that generals should be banned from working for the defense industry for 10 years after leaving the Pentagon, asking Hegseth if he was willing to make that same pledge.
The smile on Hegseth’s face and the “Oops look” on Warren’s face when Hegseth responded, “I’m not a general,” was worth the time I spent listening to her drivel.
Then there was Oklahoma’s Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who called out Democrat senators for their hypocritical line of questing of nominee Hegseth over his alleged drinking and marriage cheating,
“I think it is so hypocritical of senators, especially those on the other side, to be talking about his qualifications, and yet your qualifications aren’t any better.
“What if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have shown up drunk to vote at night? How many senators do you know who have gotten a divorce for cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down.? Give me a break.”
It was Senator Mullin who reminded Senator Warren that the current SecDef, Lloyd Austin, was given a waiver when he left the board of Raytheon to be confirmed, saying, “but I guess that is okay because that is a Democrat secretary of defense.”
Of note was Hegseth’s remark that “we won World War II with seven four-star generals. Today we have 44 four-star generals,” noting a conversation he had with Trump over what that star power got us.
When it came to the hearing for Pam Bondi as attorney general, the Democrat senators seemed to understand that they cannot argue over her legal experience, which includes eight years as Florida’s AG, they pressed her to say that Trump did not win in 2020. As if that is important. Next priority was, can she say “no” to Trump if needed.
Bondi had enough of Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s questioning, suggesting that Bondi was tailoring her answers not out of honesty, but out of a desire to be confirmed.
“Senator, first,” she shot back, about having to “sit up here and say these things. No, I don’t! I sit up here and speak the truth. I’m not going to sit up here and say anything that I need to say to get confirmed by this body. I don’t have to say anything. I will answer the questions to the best of my ability.”
California’s Sen. Adam Schiff, ever the anti-Trumper, pressed Bondi for Trump’s plan to seek vengeance on Liz Cheney. Ridiculous, but it shows you how he thinks. Schiff was behind the two impeachments, and is known for his outright lies about having evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians. Evidence he was never asked to produce.
Most of Trump’s key nominations are likely to be confirmed by Inauguration Day.
Finally … Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.), asked to comment on Biden’s final foreign policy speech, said it was “absolutely stunning to hear him take the findings and turn them around. His was a failed presidency.” Priceless.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
