George Rebane
Last week, White House aide Kelly Sadler said McCain’s opposition to Gina Haspel’s nomination to be the next CIA Director didn't matter because he’s “dying anyway." Ms Sadler’s comment was made during a private, closed door planning session in the White House concerning how now-confirmed CIA Director’s nomination was to be managed through Congress. Nothing unusual about the president’s staff doing such strategizing. And nothing unusual about a staff member assessing the factors surrounding potential members of Congress as they may affect the Haspel vote if the confirmation process were to be long and drawn out, or as to the weight of an MOC’s opposition to the confirmation.
Pointing out that a particular senator’s opposition may be weakened because of his apparent health-induced lame duck status, was an expected contribution to the deliberations. There is no evidence that Ms Sadler’s observation was in any way made with disrespect let alone intended to be an insult. However, those norms have long been abandoned in the operation of our federal government, especially if there is hay to be made in the ongoing attempt to weaken the Trump administration. The comment was leaked to the opposition in a now pro forma fashion, and it was off to the races.
The usual Democrat suspects jumped all over it, and their lamestream lackeys piled on with lurid reports of how the White House disrespects and continues to insult hallowed veterans such as Sen John McCain. Everybody who could find a mic voiced their ‘shock’ at such an insult being tolerated by the President. The leftwing barrage was so heavy and came so rapidly that even the Republican MOCs were swept along, and had chime in about their own disappointments about such a now-established insult.
To add further insult to injury, Fox News – you know, the people who are “fair, balanced, and unafraid” – were scared s#!tless to set the matter straight. Instead they formed up their talking heads who obediently cluck-clucked their tongues at the unfortunate leak and the politics of such news of the ‘insult’ as it affected the President’s ongoing foreign policy and economic agenda. None had the balls to say that Ms Sadler’s remark in a private executive branch planning meeting was not an insult, and the resulting fray was simply an expected a political dust-up, that correctly reported, would quickly blow over.
And this how the Washington 'honorables' govern us today.
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