You won’t get enough support to torpedo the worst nominees if you focus on their bad policies and beliefs. There are too many voters and even Senators who think these things are a good idea. Not to mention if a Senator comes out against a nominee for policy reasons, they risk incurring Trump’s wrath. If they come out against the nominee …
You won’t get enough support to torpedo the worst nominees if you focus on their bad policies and beliefs. There are too many voters and even Senators who think these things are a good idea. Not to mention if a Senator comes out against a nominee for policy reasons, they risk incurring Trump’s wrath. If they come out against the nominee for verifiable non-policy reasons they can tank a nomination without incurring Trump’s wrath. The important thing is to get rid of “the worst of the worst” using the most effective tools available, which in the cases of Gaetz and Hegseth has been sexual harassment, sex trafficking, theft, getting fired from other positions of authority for embezzlement and abuse of authority, etc. Better to do what will actually work than what feels good.
You have good point. But what can be unearthed out his past to tank Kash? He looks like a psychopath, with those wild eyes. But you can't tag someone's face or body, really. Pray some hardworking journalist finds a thing or two.
For Patel, you may have to play the policy card. OTOH, there is some evidence of him lying and exaggerating the truth to the point of lying during his tenure in government. There were instances of him taking classified reports out of Fiona Hill’s office on questions concerning Russia and showing them to Trump without clearing any of it with Hill, who was his boss (if I have my facts straight). It might be possible to package these things together into a good non-policy argument, not to mention him hawking his stupid King Donald children’s books. With the right set of facts and the right Senators, it may be possible to make Patel look incompetent enough and untrustworthy enough to avoid going into policy with him as well. 🙏🤞
You won’t get enough support to torpedo the worst nominees if you focus on their bad policies and beliefs. There are too many voters and even Senators who think these things are a good idea. Not to mention if a Senator comes out against a nominee for policy reasons, they risk incurring Trump’s wrath. If they come out against the nominee for verifiable non-policy reasons they can tank a nomination without incurring Trump’s wrath. The important thing is to get rid of “the worst of the worst” using the most effective tools available, which in the cases of Gaetz and Hegseth has been sexual harassment, sex trafficking, theft, getting fired from other positions of authority for embezzlement and abuse of authority, etc. Better to do what will actually work than what feels good.
You have good point. But what can be unearthed out his past to tank Kash? He looks like a psychopath, with those wild eyes. But you can't tag someone's face or body, really. Pray some hardworking journalist finds a thing or two.
For Patel, you may have to play the policy card. OTOH, there is some evidence of him lying and exaggerating the truth to the point of lying during his tenure in government. There were instances of him taking classified reports out of Fiona Hill’s office on questions concerning Russia and showing them to Trump without clearing any of it with Hill, who was his boss (if I have my facts straight). It might be possible to package these things together into a good non-policy argument, not to mention him hawking his stupid King Donald children’s books. With the right set of facts and the right Senators, it may be possible to make Patel look incompetent enough and untrustworthy enough to avoid going into policy with him as well. 🙏🤞