“You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election,” Ossoff said, “but you asked to lead America’s intelligence community? Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president’s delusions?”
“We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question,” Ossoff continued. “Why can you not give it?”
Sean Vitka, executive director for Demand Progress, said after the hearing that Clayton’s refusal to answer Ossoff’s question was disqualifying.
“Clayton’s trainwreck hearing showed us that he is willing to deny objective reality to avoid upsetting the president,” Vitka said. “Someone like that must not be allowed to be the director of national intelligence, who wields vast power and must lead the intelligence community with nonpartisan integrity and independence from political pressure.”
Regardless of the eventual outcome, as I have given up on the GOP voting to actually do the right thing about anything, let me say:
Thank you, Senator Ossoff! Thank you for actually saying this, in public, to his face. This is how they should be talked to.
Yeah most Democrats want to be represented by a Democrat and not whatever Fetterman is now
I’m pretty sure Fetterman has already close to guaranteed his own exit from the party.
There’s “working across the aisle,” and then there’s deliberately frustrating your constituents with awful public takes...
Or maybe he’s hoping to get in a position like Joe Manchin’s where he’s the deciding vote and gets to abuse this power to extract concessions. Maybe it’s just about having that power.
Maybe it’s none of the above and his brain really is fried.
Either way, Fetterman has deceived and angered his constituents. So no matter what contrarian position he continues to take, hell, whether or not he even switches his affiliation to independent, come his next election, he better hope his challenger is actually braindead.
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