Despite Democrat howls of indignation, the Republican controlled Senate is backing Pete Hegseth. President Donald Trump chose him as Secretary of Defense. He had no problem defending himself at his confirmation hearing.
Hegseth convinces Senate
Democrats are horrified that Pete Hegseth is nearly certain to be confirmed. Not a single Republican on the Senate committee sitting over his confirmation cares about his personal baggage.
He’s being put on the job to clean up the Pentagon and get our forces combat ready.
On Tuesday, January 14, Hegseth “blasted through a cloud of controversies.” The Hill is sad to report that he’s well “on his way to what is expected to be Senate confirmation.”
It will be a few days before it becomes official. The final vote’s expected on January 20.
Democrats thought they had all sorts of reasons why Hegseth shouldn’t be confirmed. Republicans don’t mind any of them. The way The Hill describes it, “no Republican members of the Armed Services Committee displayed an appetite to buck Trump on his first Cabinet pick.”
Because they agree with him, the liberal leaning outlet didn’t write.
Army National Guard vet
The 44-year-old nominee, Democrats wail, is “a poor role model to lead the armed forces, especially women.” The Army National Guard veteran has a confirmed dislike of women in combat.
Hegseth pointed out that he softened that stance to allow reasonable exceptions, in situations where gender isn’t a distracting factor.
Republicans simply tuned out whenever their Democrat colleagues had the microphone. Senators Duckworth, Warren, Shaheen and Gillibrand did their did their best to team up on him, to no avail.
Hegseth, they complained, would actually make soldiers stop wearing panties under their fatigues.
“You can’t seem to grasp that there is no U.S. military as we know it without the incredible women that we serve, women who earn their place in their units,” Duckworth snarled. To her, men who think they’re women are women. She’s personally “a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who was critically wounded flying a combat helicopter in Iraq.”
She would not have been injured in an all male unit. Not if she wasn’t there in the first place. Hegseth wonders if she endangered her unit’s lives, along with her own, by distracting them from doing their duty.
