The first round of confirmation hearings for Trump Cabinet appointees shows that Democrats aren’t interested in governing — only grandstanding.
Look at the circus of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth’s Tuesday hearing.
Hawaii’s Sen. Mazie Hirono, a lefty stalwart, debuted an utterly bizarre line about Hegseth greenlighting military invasions of Greenland or takeovers of the Panama Canal; she also asked if Hegseth would follow a hypothetical order from Trump to shoot protesters.
Virginia’s Tim Kaine sternly wagged his finger at Hegseth over allegations of bad behavior toward women — pretty rich coming from a man who went puppy-eyes gaga in public for . . . Bill Clinton.
Liz Warren, who lied about having Native American heritage to prosper in academia, went after Hegseth for his honesty.
Pathetic. Zero substance, 100% partisan theater.
And that same cheap, circus-barker mentality was on display during the Judiciary Committee’s hearing for Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) opened by asking if Bondi had an enemies list and demanding to know “under what circumstances will you prosecute journalists.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal similarly asked if Bondi could say no to the president “when he asks you to do something unethical or illegal.”
Corrupt Russiagate-liar Calif. Sen. Adam Schiff followed this absurd line of questioning even deeper down the rabbit hole, with Bondi landing body blows in response.
Notably, as Schiff kept talking over her, answering his own questions, she finally erupted: “You were censured by Congress, senator, for comments just like this and they’re so reckless!” — a dig centering on his repeated public claims about Trump’s ties to Russia that turned out false.
Bondi will be tasked with running and restoring an agency hollowed out and politicized by utterly supine Attorney General Merrick Garland, who did have an enemies list (it included concerned public-school parents and religious Catholics) and clearly never told his boss no.
Schiff & Co.’s casting of Bondi as a female Nixon is an attempt to pump some vitality into the flagging fortunes of their just-whomped party.
Like Hirono and Kaine, they’re trying to generate soundbites to boost their fund-raising (2026 is barreling toward us already, don’t forget.)
These senior elected officials are no different, in other words, from the histrionic adult babies who invaded Energy Secretary-designate Chris Wright’s hearing Wednesday to blubber and wave signs about how eeeeevil fossil fuels are.
Maybe this sweaty-browed huffing and puffing still plays with rubes who seal-clap for Rachel Maddow and Stephen Colbert.
But the 2024 election results suggest it won’t move anyone else.
Sad: The national Dem leadership is as out of touch with political reality as its members are loud, narcissistic and null on policy.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
