The Pete Hegseth hearings
I’m doing a roundup for this.
Ace opines, with clips, in this post.
There’s a lot of coverage at RedState.
Legal Insurrection has this as well as this. From the former, the following Hegseth quote: “I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas.”
I doubt most people watch these things. I also think Hegseth will be confirmed.
If I were in charge – would use a little Lawfare and make voting against confirming Pete Hegseth a Capital Crime.
Have watched some…Pocahontas Warren – loved her brief choking silence after Pete told her he wasn’t a General 🙂 but would not be able to watch another DEM question him…
Pete acquitted himself rather well, I think, so well done and godspeed. Perhaps Sen. Fetterman will see fit to “aye” this vote. As to the rest of his party — it’s doubtful. But we’ll see.
I enjoyed Sen. Mullin’s comments – https://x.com/Heritage/status/1879227054035517948
BTW, he is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, unlike the Senator from Massachusetts.
All of the screaming from the female senators didn’t help the case of having women in combat – https://x.com/JustineBateman/status/1879261378730709214
Saw one dem trying to get Pete to agree torture was okay.
Pete was talking about Rules of Engagement. Stuff like the RoE at Extortion One Seven which cost us thirty-six dead. And at Abbey Gate, thirteen KIA and fifty-some wounded.
“just wounded”. Back in the day, watching old cowboy movies, my father would mutter what I presume now were obscenities when some guy, shot in the shoulder, would clap his hand to the wounded shoulder with a tablespoon of ketchup in his palm. No. There are quad amps and paraplegics and guys with their faces shot off. In the hospital, you learn not to look at the parents’ faces.
Marine sniper had eyes on the suicide vehicle, many requests for clearance to shoot, nothing.
When in the Army, I ran into a guy who’d lost half his platoon to such restrictions. And we’re the bad guys.
The dem questioner knew this and tried to deflect to torture, or he didn’t know. .In either case, he’s not worth his next…
Somebody stop me.
I have news for Tammy Duckworth; I doubt Hegseth will be as bad as Austin: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/politics/pentagon-ukraine-accounting-error/index.html
I watched it all. Major political theater. The Democrats were uniformly antagonistic. Pete acquitted himself well. I would not have been able to stay as unruffled as he seemed.
Is he qualified? Is anybody actually qualified to be Sec Def? It’s a huge job with many moving parts. Anyone who has held it has had to rely on an army of subordinates and advisors to guide him. Pete knows this, and his strong desire to put the mission of combat lethality foremost will make a huge difference in getting our military back on track. I hope he’s confirmed.
I think that one real takeaway from this hearing was the fact that the female Democrat Senators revealed their true characters by the questions they asked, how they behaved, and the tone of their questions, and it wasn’t pretty.