What's With the "Yes or No" Theatrics?

in the senate nomination hearings

Some of President Trump’s cabinet nominees are going through without too much fuss. But some of them face united Democratic Party opposition. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was one such.

Clearly, Democrats also have a problem with nominees RFK Jr. (HHS), Kash Patel (FBI), and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI).

And the big deal with Tulsi Gabbard, with Sen. Bennett (D-CO), was whether intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was a traitor, “yes or no?”

I takes us all back to the good old days, when Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI) and his pals on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee demanded to know of this or that Hollywood person:

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?

Guess what: most of them were, because anyone who was anyone in Hollywood in the 1930s was at the very least sympathetic to the glorious promise of communism and/or socialism.

Of course, the Republicans had gained 55 seats and the majority in the House of Representatives in the 1946 midterms, so maybe it was all just about GOPers feeling their oats back then.

So, is the problem that the Democrats are really mad that they lost the Senate in the 2024 elections?

Are the Democrats really mad that former Democrats like RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard have signed up with ultraMAGA Trump?

Are they really mad that the Trump train is proposing to spring-clean the Intelligence Community from basement to attic?

Or are they just determined to show that, if they set their minds to it, and ask enough “yes or no” questions then they will show President Trump that there’s a limit to his power.

Maybe it’s as simple as setting the Deep State Secret Decoder Ring to “vote no” and immediately every Democrat and Sens. Murkowski and Collins and McConnell all “vote no.”

I just doubt if there is a deep and sophisticated reason behind all this. We just don’t know what the reason is.

Not yet.