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Evidently there’s a rule: each new Trump nomination makes you long for the previous one.
You’d think an America First campaign might have yielded an America First foreign policy team, but with each passing day it’s more and more the typical losers and creeps of America Seventy-Ninth.
We know the usual routine when it comes to presidential nominations (in this and any other administration): unless the guy shot his neighbor, or — even worse — uttered an off-color joke 30 years ago, he sails on through.
Sometimes it’s a partisan vote, to be sure, but that can’t be taken seriously: if a president from the opposing party had nominated that very same person, the people opposing him now would have been demanding his confirmation.
This time it’s Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State, and Gina Haspel to head the CIA.
And once again, Rand Paul is doing the work no one else will do.
First, he notes that Haspel has been positively gleeful in how she responds to the use of torture.
And Rand is opposing Pompeo for his bellicosity, his advocacy of torture, and his support for the Iraq war, possibly the stupidest war in American history.
When you cheer on a debacle of that magnitude, something really ought to happen to you. There ought to be some professional consequences.
But as we all know, nothing happens. If anything, your prominence grows. Bill Kristol hasn’t been right about anything since 1966, foreign policy in particular, and he’s still all over TV.
Two to four million people displaced, an astronomical number of deaths, instability everywhere, radical Islam given a shot in the arm, Iran (the country the neocons urge us to fear) strengthened — and…meh.
Progressives are even saying they miss George W. Bush, which is another way of saying they never really cared about the foreigners in war-torn countries for whom they shed all those crocodile tears.
But question the 73 genders, or stray even an inch from the 3×5 card of allowable opinion, and you’ll feel their wrath.
What weird priorities.
Meanwhile, Liz Cheney, rushing to make sure folks in the 50-60 IQ range get their fair share of commentary, tweeted this:
“Gina Haspel has spent her career defending the American people and homeland. Rand Paul is defending and sympathizing with terrorists.”
It’s like a giant insane asylum.
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