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No Political Capital For Donald

He can't even get his picks through the Senate’s advice and consent process.

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Bob Cesca
Dec 05, 2024
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by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC – As I write this, Pete Hegseth’s Mom is calling around trying to convince U.S. senators to let him run the Pentagon. You know, like all alpha males. By the time you read this, it’s quite possible Hegseth will have withdrawn his nomination.

Set aside his alleged sexual abuse, serial cheating, gross lack of personal hygiene, and obvious alcoholism, Hegseth is vastly unqualified for the job. He’s a weekend TV host on Fox & Friends. He’s not even qualified enough to be a first-string giggling couch tumor on the Monday through Friday edition of the show. He’s only qualified enough for two episodes a week. And this part-timer thinks he can run the world’s largest bureaucracy? Pathetic.

Most of Donald Trump’s “whack-pack” menagerie of cabinet picks are equally unqualified and unserious. This should be the beginning and the end of the debate. It shouldn’t even come down to his nominees being drunks or sex pests. But I guess this is where…

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Host of the Bob Cesca Show podcast. Weekly regular: The Stephanie Miller Show and TME with John Fugelsang. Podcaster, writer, cyclist, collector of nerdy things.
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