In 1989, the United States Senate voted down fellow Senator John Tower for Secretary of Defense position under George H.W. Bush. They threw one of their own member under the van over accusations that Tower had a conflict of interest with respect to the Pentagon, that he was also a heavy drinker, and – in the parlance of the day, a “womanizer.” Tower could at least point back to a significant career in the Senate as the experience necessary to run the Pentagon while attempting to make his case. Now, though – Pete Hegseth, the lubricated lush accused of rape in California, possessing nearly no experience in either politics or in running the military, believes that he is worthy of a position from which Tower fell woefully short while demonstrably more qualified for the job. If one had an “open mind” about Hegseth’s ability to do the job, before – and you certainly did not, a rape allegation is a rape allegation, but if you did, the uninspired first day of Senate Hegseth testimony left one wanting. He is just not that bright – there is no steel there, no deeper intelligence, nor the analytical eye we expect from someone sitting in that seat. The testimony was humiliating and, well – boring. On that point, the Dems best step up for their meds, too. They should have nailed Hegseth’s hide to the wall and failed.
As but one example, Kaitlin Collins had Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on the program with a comprehensively painful answer springing from an otherwise easy question. It seems as though Mullin tries to say that Hegseth’s drinking is actually a good qualify because he might have to drink on the job – or something.
Collins: “I was in that room today,” she noted. And when you said that, I guess the thought that went through my head was, if what you’re saying is true and your colleagues do show up drinking to come to work and vote, which I think would maybe be concerning to those taxpayers who pay them, how is the bad behavior of a sitting senator a defense of someone who wants to run the Pentagon?”
Mullin: “It’s not. What they were saying is he was incapable of doing his job. And Kaitlan, what I was trying to get to is, if you’re capable of doing your job and you’re able to still drink on the job or late in the evening, then don’t tell me that Pete can’t. And Pete had already said he’s not going to drink, but they would just they just kept hammering it.”
Do what now? If you can tell me that you can drink on the job, don’t tell me that Pete can’t? Is it not ideal that neither of us drink on the job? And, when one of us is the Secretary of Defense, isn’t it up to that guy to hold up the ideal whether I drink or not? Something like that.
But it’s actually even worse. Not only was Hegseth cornered on his drinking and fathering children in every time zone, he just isn’t very bright. Look in on the makeuped man and look him in the eyes – not a lot there to explore. If you don’t believe me, it is best to hear him talk about the Association of South East Asia Nations or “ASEAN” – akin to a NATO but without the NA or the U.S., for that matter.
Senator Tammy Duckworth of Wisconsin asked Hegseth:
Duckworth: You talked about the Indo-Pacific a little bit, and I’m glad that you mention it. I’ll mention it. Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in the ASEAN, in ASEAN, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations, and how many nations are in ASEAN, by the way?
HEGSETH: I couldn’t tell you the exact amount of nations in that, but I know we have allies in South Korea, and Japan, and in AUKUS with Australia, and trying to work on submarines with them and-
Okay – I know he’s nervous, but the “amount of nations”? Are you ffffing kidding me? How about, “I am not aware of the exact number of nations within the Association.” Now – I would likely have named Australia – and would’ve been wrong. Except I am not asking to be Secretary of Defense, I would have studied, I could’ve said, “I am unaware of the total number of nations but let me talk about the strategic importance that Alliance brings” and then could likely have rattled off three or four of the nations.
And I am not that bright, either. It is shocking that the same guy who argues that the Left’s whole “woke” thing (Just being “nice”) actually ends up lowering standards, when – in reality, we have concrete proof as to how Hegseth’s nomination has lowered standards. In 1989 – John Tower got voted down on many of the same issues -being stupid, actually not being among them. In the first Trump administration, we had James Mad Dog Mattis, as Secretary of Defense, a former 4 star Marine and former “Supreme Allied Commander Joint NATO Forces Europe” and now this clown. Talk about “waking up” to the differences: He would be the single least qualified Sec. Def. in modern history.
Having said all that, the Democrats look hapless and are asking poorly prepared and inane questions such that they’re doing all they can to make Hegseth look like a reserved wise statesman. Watching Sen. Tim Kaine ask about “You did swear an oath to your first wife, too – correct?” was just painful! He needed to ask something like: “It appears here you have been married three times, fathered children out of wedlock, how do I know you won’t be susceptible to blackmail if you are in an affair with attractive employees? Do you agree that such affairs make blackmail far easier? How do I know you won’t be in a bar with a Russian-trained “date” who has you wrapped around her finger? Why aren’t you better prepared to be here, by the way? Do you not care enough? How much did your prepare? Was it enough?” That is how one asks questions about the fact that Hegseth chases women everywhere and everything else.
So, Democrats – get better. Follow Duckworth’s lead. Ask difficult questions that are directly pertinent to the job! She is pulling all the weight right now. Hmmmm, maybe Duckworth should be the obvious candidate to lead the Pentagon?
There is no there, there. I just don’t see it. Go get a drink, Pete, it’s late.
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The women sitting behind him do not look impressed.
Cut Hedgehog a break. It’s hard working without a teleprompter.
There is no teleprompter in the Pentagon OR the situation room. This fool is an insult to the nomination process, and his “boss) is jerking the American public around, both his followers and those who know he himself is an insult to the office which he will assume next week.
His answer honestly should have been: I’m sorry senator, but I was advised to skip my three gin and tonics for breakfast, and I’m not myself right now.
Hegseth spent a lot of time saying we need a dusty-booted warrior as SecDef. Believing the smoke that a con man is blowing up your ass and smirking it back out at U.S. Senators doesn’t make you a warrior…it makes you an empty vessel with nothing in your core to stop it on its way from your sphincter to your face!! 😤🤬
SMH……. It’s ALL, Psycho-babble & RW BS. NO ETHICS, NO TRUTH!
Military service is now the number one predictor of whether someone will commit a mass casualty event. Pete’s “warrior culture” will guarantee that doesn’t change.