Posted on 02/13/2025 4:23:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Senate’s confirmation hearings for President Trump’s political appointees have been gladiatorial spectacles. Tulsi Gabbard; Kash Patel; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed Pete Hegseth’s example in demonstrating fierce determination and an unwillingness to have their honor questioned by dishonorable Democrats.
Gabbard told the Intelligence Committee that the Russia collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and her own experiences as a Biden regime surveillance target proved that the CIA and its sister agencies had become politicized weapons endangering the Republic. Kennedy admonished Senator Bernie Sanders for being a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the pharmaceutical industry. When Senator Adam Schiff (who should be a defendant, not a lawmaker) accused Patel of betraying law enforcement officers, the next director of the FBI stared back intently and reminded inveterate liar Schiff that those who police our streets know who has their backs.
These types of hearings have gotten increasingly combative over the last thirty years, but this aggressive jousting between nominees and lawmakers is something new. What we’re watching is not just rhetorical gamesmanship or made-for-TV fireworks meant to capture distracted Americans’ attention. Like their boss in the White House — whose mug shot from the Fulton County Jailhouse in Atlanta, Georgia, two years ago only added to Trump’s legend as an everyman hero — these nominees have approached their confirmation hearings with a stoic seriousness befitting an administration whose every move conveys a simple message: “There’s a new sheriff in town.” When Patel gave Schiff the “evil eye” and calmly asserted that his friends in blue had his six, I thought the corrupt California senator wet his pants.
Will the nominees be confirmed? If the proceedings were done entirely in secret, they would not. As more Americans have steadily realized, the U.S. Senate is not divided between Republicans and Democrats.
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And the corruption is on full display.
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The Trump administration should put the federal government down like the rabid dog it has become.
Easier said than done for it is not a single rabid animal. Respond as you would to a pack of rabid animals, picking off the lead dog(s) and then working on the minions as they scramble for cover.
Good article. I’m convinced. We, at FR, are convinced. Many remain clueless.
Trump and his team are doing a great job, much better than I hoped for. Still, they must not allow themselves to be bogged down. They should keep chipping away. So should we. Find your best tidbit and share it, from USAID, to COVID origins, to global warming and climate change.
Meanwhile, shutting off the corruption dollars should weaken the left over time. Making PBS and NPR neutral (or gone) should help. I think the final nail will come when some legacy news agency is purchased and moves progressively to the right. PBS run by Newsmax? CNN purchased? New York Times bought out? When liberals turn to a familiar source and hear what we hear, a large number will flip.
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