It’s getting harder and harder to think up anything to write about that isn’t already obvious to anyone who might stumble across this blog. The madness continues, but has been entirely predictable. It hardly seems necessary to document the atrocities, since they are so obvious.
I do think I have to say a word about the recent vote on the confirmation of Pete Hegseth to be the Secretary of Defense. I should note that I was right that Lisa Murkowski was the likeliest person to vote against any of the nominees, but I was wrong about Susan Collins, who apparently couldn’t overcome her concern, and Mitch McConnell, who actually cast a vote against Hegseth. I wonder if either McConnell or Collins would have cast those votes if they would in fact have sunk the nominee.
In McConnell’s case, one must wonder if he ever loses any sleep at night over the fact that there are few people on this earth who are more responsible for the present state of our nation than he. We’ll never know if he could have convinced enough of his fellow Senators to vote to convict the insurrectionist, but we do know that he didn’t try, using the laughable excuse that the criminal process could take care of Trump, a possibility that the Supreme Court for which he is responsible flushed down the toilet with what is perhaps the most absurd opinion in its history.
In Collins case, it’s my understanding that she intends to run for re-election, continuing the process by which the Senate is increasingly looking like an old age home. She may figure that she has to prove to the people of Maine that she truly is an independent thinker. It is to be hoped that they will finally see through her and send her to a proper retirement home.