Pete Hegseth hearing
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You seem to have a hard time distinguishing between an election and an appointment.
Again he was never nominated for a cabinet position. Can anyone on the right stay on topic without trying to replay the past?
Teddy isn't relevant to this discussion. Not remotely.
Sounds like FoxNews came up with the Ted Kennedy excuse and the resident Rs are rolling with it.
So you're saying, never in your life have you said something and them later regretted it? Or is it that you have Blue glasses on and only looking at it in that way? She said something to her son 7 years ago, in anger, and later regretted it. There are reasons for him to not have this job, but this isn't one of them.
What about Nancy Pelosi? She's drunk a lot.
Ted's been dead for 15 years. And he wasn't a member of anybody's cabinet. Let's just call it what it really is. Rs are desperate to find some Democratic equivalent of Hegs, and the best they could conjure up is a guy whose been dead three presidents ago. Lame.
No they're not. Stop projecting. They're saying the man had a drinking problem and by all accounts so far, has beat'n the addiction. The comparison is to the fact that many drunks (Teddy one of them) have been in power before. They are attacking Hegs for the very things they've allowed their colleges to do.
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RFK would have been a much better choice to use. He was 34 when named attorney general and had literally zero experience before becoming a member of his brother's cabinet.
After winning the 1960 presidential election, president-elect John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother as U.S. attorney general.[100] The president-elect's first choice for the slot had been Governor Abraham Ribicoff, but the Connecticut politician declined the offer.[101] Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. pushed for Robert Kennedy to get the position, in part on the grounds that the president would need someone in his cabinet with whom he had an absolute trust.[102] Both brothers harbored doubts about the proposed appointment, but first John decided it was a good idea and then Robert was persuaded to accept it.[103] The choice was controversial, with publications including The New York Times and The New Republic calling him inexperienced and unqualified.[104] He had no experience in any state or federal court,[105] causing the president to joke, "I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law."[106]
Here's the thing about Pete and DoT Secretary. The SecTrans job is a job that is given to someone perceived by his/her party to have long term upside potential, because let's face it - the job mostly involves doling out money and making friends with local government types all over the country.
In PB's case, he attended elite educational institutions, served, worked for a very high end global consultancy, and was elected to and managed a local government as a gay guy in a town that is essentially run by a catholic institution. And he did so relatively quietly. So his qual's to be a cabinet secretary were just fine, whether i like his politics/policies or not. Mind you, they were completely inadequate for him to run for president, but now he's got cabinet secretary on his resume, and probably a fair number of friends.
A final note - whether his fault or not, his tenure at Transportation wasn't exactly the quiet stuff of his predecessors, so if he does try to move up the chain, I'm sure we'll hear more of it.
Shit, why didn't you say so. Crap we didn't know you were BFF's with him.
There are plenty of reports of him drinking in the job at FoxNews. As far as anyone can tell he's still a drunk.
By whom? I don't take secondhand word.
🙄 Gosh.
Tell me which of these is true…
1. You honestly believe this and don’t understand the point
2. You honestly think others are so dense they’ll be convinced by your selling this
Media reports discredited by Hegseth's FOXNews co-workers...
You can sign up for the daily maga numpty talking points if you know where to look!
No. If they’ve mentioned him at all I wouldn’t know about it.
OTOH it does sound like you and your friends use this standard issue response whether it’s factual or not.
LMFAO, The world learned Hegseth is a fallen down drunk that couldn't answer any questions yesterday.
Are you saying he was in fact impaired during the hearing yesterday?
I watched clips on local news last night and he didn’t seem to be. Am I wrong?
No, he was sober during the hearing. But his
hair was very greasy.
You should probably watch it again with your eyes open this time. You are kind of out of step with even the propaganda media. I know dolts like you don't pay attention, but the only people making the drinking charges are anonymous sources on NBC who attempted to smear him. His coworkers from three different jobs said this was bullshit. Oh, and the unhinged Dem harpy senators repeated them, making themselves look like fools. But it is your lie, tell it how you want.
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So you were the little geek on the playground that would call everyone names…
By those anonymous sources the libs rely on so much, it's interesting those sources won't come forward.
Nothing but the best… after all, look at his last cabinet, look at his SC nominees and look at his “optics” as POTUS…. Trump is a goddamned jokecas POTUS, he’s a lyin’ sumbitch about everything and why would anyone think anything is gonna change when he takes over next week? The American voter is a walking, talking definition of a mentally ill person…. Try the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome. Trump’s a loser. Hopefully the “checks and balances” of the Constitution ( Trump’s enemy) will keep him inside the rails. He is an unstable person.
Fly your flags at half staff Monday out of respect for Jimmy Carter and our Constitution.
