Senate GOP sees Hegseth nomination as likely doomed

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

12/05/24 5:36 PM ET


Pete Hegseth’s nomination to serve as secretary of Defense appears doomed despite his fiery declaration that he’s “not going anywhere,” Republicans on Capitol Hill told The Hill on Thursday.

“I think most people do not expect Hegseth to make it,” said one Republican senator. “There’s seven or eight [Republican] votes against him. It’s a matter of time.” “It’s on the death watch,” the senator added.

GOP senators say that President-elect Trump is letting Hegseth twist in the wind and even appeared to undermine his nomination by floating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as a possible replacement nominee to head the Pentagon. Republican senators say that Trump isn’t making calls to GOP senators to save Hegseth’s floundering nomination and instead is throwing more ballast onto a sinking ship by floating DeSantis as a replacement.

DeSantis, a Navy judge advocate general who is a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve, would easily win confirmation, the GOP source said. “Where is all of this stuff about DeSantis coming from? That’s all coming out of Mar-a-Lago,” the first GOP senator who spoke to The Hill said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5025283-hegseth-defense-nomination-doomed/

[Walleye]

1. Trump is making a statement by appointing a man who hates women like he does

[C0RI0LANUS]

2. One down. How many more shipwrecks must we endure?

[underpants]

5. Two down hopefully two more

Gaetz out
Hegseth doesn’t look good

Gabbard and Patel have to be NO’s but the Bulwark is reporting on Morning Joe that Trump is willing to go to war for Tulsi and RFK Jr.

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. Putin wants US DOD, DOJ, USIC, CIA, FBI, DOS, NSA, HHS to be run by incompetents. He must have told #45 to

"go to war over" Tulsi and RFK, Jr.

Putin wants Trumpf to weaken the America people physically and financially while purging the USIC. The US oligarchs get richer with the contracts they will make for themselves.

This is treachery of the highest order in a new phase of class warfare against the American people.

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[underpants]

7. He really wants Tulsi at DNI

That would be the ultimate hope for him.

I’m okay if Jr gets in as long as Gabbard and Patel don’t. That may be settling but those two can’t get through. I can’t imagine Republicans stopping all of these.

[C0RI0LANUS]

8. I just read in GD or Editorials that RFK Jr wants the Raw Milk CEO to join the Admin.

There was a food recall about his raw milk which I posted a few days ago.

These people really want to make Americans sick, weak, or ill.

And that flush you are hearing is our national security going down the drain. I heard a rumor that top level CIA personnel will be resigning in Jan 2025. And some USIC resignations have already begun:

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/ic-and-cia-ig-investigation

[jimfields33]

11. We need someone with food safety experience

We’ve had far too many food recalls and food borne diseases lately. I don’t understand why we can’t get someone like that. Also, it’d be nice if some of the dangerous ingredients in food were taken out. There has to be someone out of 320 million that can do this job.

[C0RI0LANUS]

13. Agree 100%. I cook and see the cheap ingredients or chemicals. 21st century America deserves better.

[reACTIONary]

18. What is the USIC?

[C0RI0LANUS]

20. US Intelligence Community (CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, DNI, NGA, DHS)

[JoseBalow]

3. Will drumpf be dumb enough to let this fester over the weekend?

I expect today to be his last as the nominee.

He'll drop out claiming he still has drumpf's full support, but doesn't want to be a distraction, will still serve in some other way, blah blah blah, the usual horseshit.

drumpf will fake-tweet about unfair witch hunts, fake dem smears, blah blah blah, his usual horseshit.

Not looking forward to the DeSantis shitshow though

[jimfields33]

12. I'm think he'll get the Bondi treatment.

Crickets.

[underpants]

4. Desantis picks Laura for Rubio's seat and Trump picks DeSantis for DoD

Padding Desantis resume to run for POTUS in 2028.

[KS Toronado]

9. If reQublican Senators had some backbones

there would only be 7 or 8 votes for him, not the other way around.

[EYESORE 9001]

10. I remain dubious that he'd accept that position and leave Florida

He’s got a sweet little fiefdom going there, and I don’t see him abandoning that. Perhaps he’d try keeping a foot in both worlds.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

15. But that is only for two more years and he is term limited.

OTOH, I could see the Fla. legislature with their Repug majority ramrodding something through to enable DeathSentence to be Dictator of Florida for as long as he wants.

[LeftinOH]

14. "If you guys don't stop picking on me, I'm gonna get my mom!"

...basically.

[AllyCat]

16. Because of his drinking. Not because he

Is an abuser and assaulter of women. Wants women out of full military duty. Believes women should be subservient.

Or because he is completely unqualified for the position.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

17. If it were fair ... all of the above! N/t

[defacto7]

19. Great! Now he won't have to quit drinking!

[Callie1979]

21. Hopefully. Then dump Tulsi. Then Kennedy.

[Initech]

22. A drunken rapist neo Nazi seems totally on brand for them.

And that's the kind of person who's attracted to the MAGA cause.