Mitch McConnell, who loves all Democrat nominees issued a statement explaining why he rejected Pete Hegseth:
“The most consequential cabinet official in any Administration is the Secretary of Defense. In the face of the gravest threats to U.S. national security interests since World War II, this position is even more important today.
“Major adversaries are working closer together to undermine U.S. interests around the world. And America’s military capabilities and defense industrial capacity are increasingly insufficient to deter or prevail in major conflict with China or Russia, especially given the real risk of simultaneous challenges from other adversaries like Iran or North Korea.
“Stewardship of the United States Armed Forces, and of the complex bureaucracy that exists to support them, is a massive and solemn responsibility. At the gravest moments, under the weight of this public trust, even the most capable and well-qualified leaders to set foot in the Pentagon have done so with great humility – from George Marshall harnessing American enterprise and Atlantic allies for the Cold War, to Caspar Weinberger orchestrating the Reagan build-up, to Bob Gates earning the wartime trust of two Commanders-in-Chief, of both parties.
“Mere desire to be a ‘change agent’ is not enough to fill these shoes. And ‘dust on boots’ fails even to distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Nor is it a precondition for success. Secretaries with distinguished combat experience and time in the trenches have failed at the job.
“Effective management of nearly 3 million military and civilian personnel, an annual budget of nearly $1 trillion, and alliances and partnerships around the world is a daily test with staggering consequences for the security of the American people and our global interests.
“Mr. Hegseth has failed, as yet, to demonstrate that he will pass this test. But as he assumes office, the consequences of failure are as high as they have ever been.
“The United States faces coordinated aggression from adversaries bent on shattering the order underpinning American security and prosperity. In public comments and testimony before the Armed Services Committee, Mr. Hegseth did not reckon with this reality.
“President Trump has rightly called on NATO allies to spend more on our collective defense. But the nominee who would have been responsible for leading that effort wouldn’t even commit to growing America’s defense investment beyond the low bar set by the Biden Administration’s budget requests.
“In his testimony before the Committee, Mr. Hegseth provided no substantial observations on how to defend Taiwan or the Philippines against a Chinese attack, or even whether he believes the United States should do so. He failed, for that matter, to articulate in any detail a strategic vision for dealing with the gravest long-term threat emanating from the PRC.
“Absent, too, was any substantive discussion of countering our adversaries’ alignment with deeper alliance relationships and more extensive defense industrial cooperation of our own.
“This, of course, is due to change. As the 29th Secretary of Defense, Mr. Hegseth will be immediately tested by ongoing conflicts caused by Russian aggression in Europe and Iranian-backed terror in the Middle East. He will have to grapple with an unfinished FY25 appropriations process that – without his intervention – risks further harming the readiness of our forces.
“By all accounts, brave young men and women join the military with the understanding that it is a meritocracy. This precious trust endures only as long as lawful civilian leadership upholds what must be a firewall between servicemembers and politics. The Biden Administration failed at this fundamental task. But the restoration of ‘warrior culture’ will not come from trading one set of culture warriors for another.
“The single most important way for Secretary Hegseth to demonstrate his professed devotion to America’s warfighters will be to equip them – urgently – to deter aggression… and rebuild the defense industrial capacity to restock the depleted arsenal of democracy. In this cause, he will find willing partners on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, which will expect and receive his candid testimony.”
So, what do you think?
I know what I think.
Turtle boy should just resign…today. His days of creating internal strife and distrust while doing as much damage to the republic as as a member of the CCP as he could are over. Trump should deport him and his Chicom wife for treason.
What words could pass the lips of Mitch that anyone would believe? Not one. He’s a paid shill of the tribe. He and Schumer have the same master. Prove me wrong!!
Keep up the good work. We have 2 communist Senators we have to get rid of in GA in 2026 that RINO Kemp allowed to steal the election in 2020.
Don’t forget Kemp’s Commie partner in crime Raffensperger. Kemp couldn’t have done it without him.
Mitch is FOS, but good enough at spewing idiot-making-sputum all over his constituents, that they keep voting for him, over and over and over again.
Mitch McConnell is a nothing more than a lying P.O.S. His vote had nothing to do with national security, or whether or not Hedgeseth was a qualified candidate. If it were about the quality of candidate, or national security, McConnell would have never voted for any of Biden’s cabinet nominees. They were all a bunch of incompetent buffoons. McConnell’s vote was about sabotaging Trump’s nominees, and his agenda of change in Washington DC, and everyone knows it.
Mc Connell is compromised by his wife. He is an anti Trumper to the nth degree. Putting Pete in office BC he is a warrior and China Mitch is a globalist, a pacifist afraid of his own shadow.
What Mitch said was his Chinese wife’s mastoers said Nonono we no like Pete! This why Chinese Mitch no vote! Me likey men that dress like wo~man Mo.
Thanks for your efforts.
Despite the win, Graham needs to be primaried and beaten in this next election!
Red China Mitch is digging his hole deeper. He is bitter over being exposed by Trump. Mitch now has no reputation and no legacy. He cannot go out in public in his home state, where he is under 10% approval. He retires and dies in disgrace, not as some hero he imagined. His behavior is increasingly childish.
Two more years of this turkey, err turtle, if a higher or lower power does not claim him first. I don’t understand how he got reelected the last time.
How many more health “episodes” is Mitch going to suffer before he finally gets “bidened”? He’s no friend to America.
Mitch forgot to mention that his handlers at the CCP told him to vote No!
The CCP would love to have a guy like Milley in there to give them a “heads up” if we are about to do something.
From Afghanistan to Ukraine, how much military equipment did the Biden Administration cede to foreigners without a fight? Mitch had no problem with “America last” and only redeemed himself by keeping Garland off the Supreme Court. Mitch is just past it and he is probably not even making decisions anymore.
What a shameful end for his career. Now he will be remembered as a traitor.
Most of Mitch’s complaints seem to be that Hegseth is unwilling to reveal military tactical secrets to our enemies.
He also questions Hegseth’s politics. Hey Mitch, he doesn’t have a say in whether or not we defend Taiwan or anywhere else. That’s up to his boss and Congress.
Mitch has dementia much like Biden. People are probably manipulating him big time.
Mitch never has substance. As Trump said at least twice, Mitch is stupid.
There’s no probably about it…and since he voted against Hegseth we know it is the wrong people with their hand propping him up.
Yeah, including his billionaire CCP wife along with the radical democratic/socialist/communist left.
Mitch McConnel is owned by the Chinese. His wife is a Chinese agent and his wealth is 100% China-borne. He should be removed from office and thrown in prison…or a turtle terrarium.
I know McConnell didn’t say all those things. Like Biden he can barely walk, stand up or speak. These talking points sound to me like he wants another McNamara in that post. I’m happy not to have another Macheavellian in the government. We have enough of them now.
Mitch never has an interview, only does script recitations.
McTurtle neck absolutely needs to be arrested and charged with treason. He is in business along with his fish faced wife with the leaders of communist China in the ship building business. He needs to be arrested under the unconstitutional terrorism act so he does not have any rights and can be sent to foreign countries for torture.
Post turtle Mitch is the poster child for corrupt ChiCom traitors. Milley’s comrade Lloyd Austin was AWOL & incapacitated at least 2x while Brandon lit the world on fire and was at the beach starring in a bad remake of Weekend At Bernie’s…
I love a dry sense of humor.
Keep up the good work.
Yea, Mitch wrote that
LOL!
I can just see that stoned look Mitch gives the cameras when he gets asked a question and stands their silent Vnd staring into lala land.
Yep, they really think we believe that worthless, lifeless bag of snot sat down and hammered out that drivel.
Mitch McConnell voted for Lloyd Austin, a complete incompetent who has weakened America’s military
No one cares what he has to say.
Dearest Mitch, here’s why YOU failed to demonstrate passing the “Hegseth Test”. Could you have served, you’d have valued the unprecedented Veteran support for Pete. Veteran support is tantamount to saying “We’d take a bullet for this soldier”. I don’t blame you for not knowing this, but I still blame you plenty. You see, the “Hegseth Test” is nothing more than showing your love of country by supporting the troops, yet you failed. You were either too arrogant to defer to the wisdom of Veterans OR you intentionally chose to work against our country. Either way, we still won and your vote still stands loud and clear.
Mitch served, for one month, then was released. It may be a homosexual scandal. He was the only person released at the time, and a commanding officer said at that time a soldier was released due to a homosexual event. Later, Mitch got his senator to change the record as the reason to discharge was an illness in the family.
Mitch has a very dark cloud in his military past, and now with his billionaire Chinese wife. Why would a beautiful Chinese woman marry him?
Huh. That’s a strange way of saying “I’m a slimy little piece of human garbage who has been working against the will of The People for decades and I should feel shame but am incapable of that, integrity, honor, and character, who has been compromised by the CCP and work solely at the direction of my masters in the DNC”
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