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BumRushDaShow

(148,731 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:08 AM Dec 2024

Senate GOP sees Hegseth nomination as likely doomed

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/

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Senate GOP sees Hegseth nomination as likely doomed (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2024 OP
Trump is making a statement by appointing a man who hates women like he does Walleye Dec 2024 #1
One down. How many more shipwrecks must we endure? C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #2
Two down hopefully two more underpants Dec 2024 #5
Putin wants US DOD, DOJ, USIC, CIA, FBI, DOS, NSA, HHS to be run by incompetents. He must have told #45 to C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #6
He really wants Tulsi at DNI underpants Dec 2024 #7
I just read in GD or Editorials that RFK Jr wants the Raw Milk CEO to join the Admin. C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #8
We need someone with food safety experience jimfields33 Dec 2024 #11
Agree 100%. I cook and see the cheap ingredients or chemicals. 21st century America deserves better. C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #13
What is the USIC? reACTIONary Dec 2024 #18
US Intelligence Community (CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, DNI, NGA, DHS) C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #20
Will drumpf be dumb enough to let this fester over the weekend? JoseBalow Dec 2024 #3
I'm think he'll get the Bondi treatment. jimfields33 Dec 2024 #12
Desantis picks Laura for Rubio's seat and Trump picks DeSantis for DoD underpants Dec 2024 #4
If reQublican Senators had some backbones KS Toronado Dec 2024 #9
I remain dubious that he'd accept that position and leave Florida EYESORE 9001 Dec 2024 #10
But that is only for two more years and he is term limited. Prof. Toru Tanaka Dec 2024 #15
"If you guys don't stop picking on me, I'm gonna get my mom!" LeftinOH Dec 2024 #14
Because of his drinking. Not because he AllyCat Dec 2024 #16
If it were fair ... all of the above! N/t SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 2024 #17
Great! Now he won't have to quit drinking! defacto7 Dec 2024 #19
Hopefully. Then dump Tulsi. Then Kennedy. Callie1979 Dec 2024 #21
A drunken rapist neo Nazi seems totally on brand for them. Initech Dec 2024 #22

underpants

(189,258 posts)
5. Two down hopefully two more
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:20 AM
Dec 2024

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

(3,015 posts)
6. Putin wants US DOD, DOJ, USIC, CIA, FBI, DOS, NSA, HHS to be run by incompetents. He must have told #45 to
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:35 AM
Dec 2024

"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

(189,258 posts)
7. He really wants Tulsi at DNI
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:45 AM
Dec 2024

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

(3,015 posts)
8. I just read in GD or Editorials that RFK Jr wants the Raw Milk CEO to join the Admin.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:09 AM
Dec 2024

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

(19,382 posts)
11. We need someone with food safety experience
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:29 AM
Dec 2024

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

(3,015 posts)
13. Agree 100%. I cook and see the cheap ingredients or chemicals. 21st century America deserves better.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:47 AM
Dec 2024

JoseBalow

(6,987 posts)
3. Will drumpf be dumb enough to let this fester over the weekend?
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:56 AM
Dec 2024

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

underpants

(189,258 posts)
4. Desantis picks Laura for Rubio's seat and Trump picks DeSantis for DoD
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:14 AM
Dec 2024

Padding Desantis resume to run for POTUS in 2028.

KS Toronado

(20,972 posts)
9. If reQublican Senators had some backbones
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:10 AM
Dec 2024

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

EYESORE 9001

(27,873 posts)
10. I remain dubious that he'd accept that position and leave Florida
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:26 AM
Dec 2024

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

(2,490 posts)
15. But that is only for two more years and he is term limited.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 11:18 AM
Dec 2024

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.

AllyCat

(17,606 posts)
16. Because of his drinking. Not because he
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 11:19 AM
Dec 2024

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.

Initech

(104,107 posts)
22. A drunken rapist neo Nazi seems totally on brand for them.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:00 PM
Dec 2024

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

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