Pete Hegseth has done everything required of him, done it with aplomb and dignity.
Not a soul was fooled nor mollified into caving 'O
h, well, we got one' by the polite 'unanimous vote for Marco' in the tailpipe trick.
Some of John Thune's threats must be beginning to work because the Senate
got over their Ratcliffe procedural hissy fits...
...Senate Democrats slowed Ratcliffe's confirmation after his nomination advanced out of committee earlier this week, forcing procedural maneuvers to extend consideration of his nomination in recent days.
..."But Democrats unnecessarily delayed this important vote," Barrasso continued. "John Ratcliffe is undeniably qualified for the job, he's going to lead the CIA without bias, and with the safety of the American people being his priority."
On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, objected to a time agreement that would have allowed the Senate to quickly vote on Ratcliffe's nomination, expressing "serious concerns" about Ratcliffe's ability to distance himself from Mr. Trump's political interests and urging that it wasn't too much to ask for senators to have time to debate the nomination on the floor.
We have a new CIA Director at last.
That's a whole *
checks notes* two confirmations.
Hegseth had been humming along despite a rocky introductory period before senators actually had their face-to-face sessions with him. He then blew doubters away when he had his bravura performance during the hearings.
The Democrats, and, more importantly, I believe the military-industrial-DEI complex, panicked. The forces arrayed against Hegseth had counted on the reputed macho wildman to lose his cool at some point. Their
orchestrated attack on all fronts at the hearing included every manner of modern, asymmetrical weaponry, from a phalanx of shrieking AWFLs...
