I did love Elissa Slotkin's calling him out on his filibustering. He did this repeatedly, and skillfully enough to preemptively curtail at least 50% of any unfriendly questioning. He did well enough to give R's the CYA cover to vote him in. Unfortunately. And a stage-managed pretense of a hearing. He refused to meet with any dems pre-hea…
I did love Elissa Slotkin's calling him out on his filibustering. He did this repeatedly, and skillfully enough to preemptively curtail at least 50% of any unfriendly questioning. He did well enough to give R's the CYA cover to vote him in. Unfortunately. And a stage-managed pretense of a hearing. He refused to meet with any dems pre-hearing, and dems also made note of some important deficiencies in the FBI report on him. Shades of Brett Kavanaugh? This was a full on MAGA style BS love fest for a real Trumpian manly man. Three cheers for Pete!!
One thing I didn’t understand is why the Democrats on the committee didn’t force Hegseth to say WHY he didn’t meet with them. Although he said at one point that his team contacted someone’s office and there was a “scheduling conflict”. But the Democrat countered immediately with “I talked to your team to schedule an alternative time and they never responded”. EACH of the Democrats said they tried to schedule a meeting and it never happened. There couldn’t have been “conflicts” with ALL of them. Why wasn’t he put on the spot? Just repeat the question over and over, “Why didn’t you meet with me?” Force the little creep to answer the question. Nobody did that. Maybe Tim can give me a reason from the POV of a political operative.
The fact that Trump and the GOP slow walked the FBI background checks also has created issues....not that I think they would change any minds in the GOP
I did love Elissa Slotkin's calling him out on his filibustering. He did this repeatedly, and skillfully enough to preemptively curtail at least 50% of any unfriendly questioning. He did well enough to give R's the CYA cover to vote him in. Unfortunately. And a stage-managed pretense of a hearing. He refused to meet with any dems pre-hearing, and dems also made note of some important deficiencies in the FBI report on him. Shades of Brett Kavanaugh? This was a full on MAGA style BS love fest for a real Trumpian manly man. Three cheers for Pete!!
One thing I didn’t understand is why the Democrats on the committee didn’t force Hegseth to say WHY he didn’t meet with them. Although he said at one point that his team contacted someone’s office and there was a “scheduling conflict”. But the Democrat countered immediately with “I talked to your team to schedule an alternative time and they never responded”. EACH of the Democrats said they tried to schedule a meeting and it never happened. There couldn’t have been “conflicts” with ALL of them. Why wasn’t he put on the spot? Just repeat the question over and over, “Why didn’t you meet with me?” Force the little creep to answer the question. Nobody did that. Maybe Tim can give me a reason from the POV of a political operative.
The fact that Trump and the GOP slow walked the FBI background checks also has created issues....not that I think they would change any minds in the GOP