Posted on 04/08/2025 3:43:10 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
“Mitch’s vote today — like so much of the last few years of his career — is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance said, as Colby’s nomination brought out the worst of globalists.
In a statement explaining his vote against President Donald Trump’s choice, McConnell asserted that Colby’s public record “suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy.”
“The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy,” McConnell continued.
“Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move,” the 83-year-old senator warned.
“It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” he contended.
Ultimately, he argued that Colby’s nomination “encourages isolationist perversions of peace through strength to continue apace at the highest levels of administration policymaking.”
Notably, McConnell was the only Republican to vote against Colby’s nomination. He is not seeking reelection in 2026.
RELATED — Mitch McConnell Freezes Mid-Speech, Led Away from Podium:
As Breitbart News extensively detailed, Colby has been a target of globalists.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Colby, whom globalists have attacked relentlessly, is someone America First movement leaders revere because he is viewed as a reformer heading into the Pentagon to help Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fix the place,” Breitbart News wrote, as top allies continued to rush to his defense from the attacks.
“The DC swamp fears Bridge because they know he’s 100% loyal to my father’s America First foreign policy agenda at the Defense Department,” Donald Trump Jr. told Breitbart News, warning that the “entire MAGA movement will be watching this vote very closely.”
McConnell wrote none of that crap.
He’s as astute as Biden.
Whoever wrote it was trying to say “This guy’s not down with our money-laundering machine” without saying it outright.
I no longer believe McConnell is acting on his own. That freeze-up episode he had last year indicated strongly that McConnell is incapacitated mentally. Like Biden in the last few years, McConnell is probably being used by his aides to implement their own Senate agenda.
JD, light Turtle up every chance you get. At some point he will reach room temperature.
Drego said it best.
When can Kentucky replace McConnell? I can’t wait for him to leave.
“He is not seeking reelection in 2026.”
The people who have been controlling the Republican Party for the past 20 years wrote it.
Bye bye Mitch….you suck
It’s 30 or more.
The people who have been controlling the Republican Party for the past 20 years wrote it.
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they probably farm it out to shifty to write.
The Indo-Pacific is where our greatest threat resides. Duh!
I was thinking the same thing.
You bring up an interesting point. I always viewed the money laundering going directly to the representative, Why not have an aided be the cut-out?
Not for Mitch though. He has to protect his and his wife's China interests at all costs.
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