I’ve Had It with Hypocrites… Especially the Elected Kind!

Nobody likes a hypocrite, and nobody likes a sanctimonious hypocrite.

Most of all, nobody likes a sanctimonious hypocrite know-it-all.

I guess that’s why I can no longer stomach the amateur-hour theatrics that occur every time Congress holds a special hearing. Pompous politicians pontificating from their lofty perches while primping and preening for the cameras is enough to make me reach for the Pepto Bismol.

The last time we were subjected to this kind of nauseating nonsense was when some of President Trump’s more unconventional cabinet picks were being grilled by the various Senate subcommittees. Their #1 target was Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, who was lambasted by one Democratic senator after another for his alleged past sexual indiscretions and excessive drinking… until, that is, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) reminded his colleagues of the planks in their own eyes.

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?” Mullin asked. “How many senators have gotten a divorce because they’ve cheated on their wives?”

You could have heard a pin drop when Mullin was finished… and Hegseth was confirmed along a party line vote.

FBI Director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were also subjected to intense scrutiny by the modern-day Pharisees that haunt the halls of Congress. Thankfully, all three were confirmed by the Senate and are doing great jobs leading their respective agencies.

This week, the Senate turned its attention to the Signal group chat miscue that has dominated the headlines (at least in the mainstream media). From the Democratic uproar, you would think that someone in the Trump administration had sold the nuclear code to the Russians or handed over the keys to Fort Knox to the Chinese.

Was it a rookie mistake to talk about highly sensitive military plans in a nonsecure group chat? Absolutely. Was it also foolish to inadvertently invite a journalist – and a hostile one at that – to listen in on the conversation? You’d better believe it!

However, we aren’t talking about some covert and clandestine government conspiracy here, folks. We are talking about a case of poor judgment on the part of National Security Advisor Mike Walz, who immediately apologized for the blunder and took full responsibility for it while also taking corrective action to ensure that it never happened again.

What more can you possibly ask of the man? And which of his Senate interrogators doesn’t have a closet full of skeletons of their own?

Back when President Biden abandoned thousands of Americans and Afghan allies – and a U.S. airbase along with $85 billion in aircraft and high-tech weapons – there wasn’t a single peep on the Democratic side of the aisle. Nor did a single Democrat senator mourn the tragic and unnecessary loss of the 13 brave servicemen and women killed in the Abbey Gate bombing.

And yet, these same hypocrites are aghast that a single reporter was inadvertently given privileged access to military airstrike plans (which were not compromised in any way and resulted in a successful mission).

The double-standard is mindboggling!

Apparently, one unsecured group chat is the end of western civilization as we know it, but Hillary Clinton maintaining a private and unsecured server and sending tens of thousands of emails over it that (1) were hacked by foreign governments, and (2) later purposely deleted in direct violation of a congressional subpoena is a nothing-burger.

The other aspect of these Signal group chat hearings that gets my goat is that, like virtually every other congressional hearing over the past 50 years, it will result in absolutely nothing being done.

Remember “Fast and Furious”, the failed ATF operation during the Obama administration that wound up supplying Mexican drug cartels with thousands of American-made semi-automatic weapons? More than 150 innocent Mexican citizens were maimed or killed but when Congress held hearings to investigate, Attorney General Eric Holder refused to testify and became the first sitting cabinet member in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress. Meanwhile, President Obama claimed executive privilege and refused to turn over documents that were subpoenaed.

Guess what? Nothing happened to either man… and Congress lost interest and dropped the investigation.

That is exactly what happens virtually every time the House or the Senate puts on a production – and make no mistake, that’s exactly what it is – for the sake of advancing their own political agendas and careers.

Politicians and publicity stunts go together like mosquitoes and malaria.