Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared before the Senate today to discuss the Treasury budget appropriation and respond to questions.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman Mark Warner could not contain himself and used his time on camera to question Secretary Bessent about something far away from Bessent’s sphere of influence. Warner began physically shaking and grasping for words to describe his outrage, his apoplexy and fury at the audacity of President Trump to appoint Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
The first half of this segment is glorious.
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Not since Matt Gaetz nomination to AG have we seen such fits of apoplexy coming from within congress to the interim appointment of a cabinet member in an ‘acting’ capacity. Forget the sand, the gears of government are reacting to an iron wrench in their machinery. It’s awesome.
They’ve already threatened to withhold FISA-702 reauthorization, and if we get lucky, they’ll threaten to eliminate the income tax.
There should be a rule when the person required to be at these hearings be given the courtesy of allowing them to answer the questions within a reasonable time. Maybe use a time clock for fairness. Times up? Mic off.
We know why the rambling speeches and rude interruptions are done for the purpose of creating a quick, dishonest, gotcha sound bite for their allies in the fake news media and played back to the ignorant, incurious, rope-a-dope TV zombies back home in Anytown, USA.
Otherwise these hearings should not be taken seriously, unless the person answering has a quick wit and a biting comeback that exposes and/or embarrasses the questioner. Even then the answer will probably wind up on the cutting room floor and never heard by Joe Sixpack and Susie Homemaker.
These are not meant to be “hearings.” They are Pure American Kabuki Vaudeville Follies! 🙂
too bad bessent didn’t mention james wolfe.
Sen. Warner is a real-life version of what the Animal House movie character “Doug Neidermeyer” would have become in the decades after his frat-boy escapades at Faber College.
Nope….. Greg Marmalard. Dougie was a lot tougher than Warner. Mark Warner has no stones.
Great thought, though, RM. I like your thinking. See my earlier post on this thread. 🙂
found your earlier post, MHP, thx!
Now, the unhinged, foaming at the mouth faux-rage of Bill Keating…… THAT’S a Neidermeyer! 🙂
“What kind of man hits a defenseless animal?”
Heh! That’s if he had lived. The closing credits of Animal House told us that Neidermeyer was killed by his own troops in Vietnam. Fitting, yes?
People today can see right through these charades of fake politicians who show up once in awhile to schmooze their precious egos, it’s so easy to detect today now with social media that it’s sickening. Who are these creeps? GET RID OF THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
No doubt Senator Blutarsky would have been a more intelligent and much better “statesman” for the world’s greatest deliberative body.
“Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?!”
Bluto: Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
Otter: Germans?
Boone: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Anyone who recalls Sundance’s repeated recounting of Sen. Warner’s corrupt (actually criminal AFAIK) role in the Pee-Pee Dossier / Russiagate scandal will see his little charade during Bessent’s Senate Inquisition for what it is – nothing but a purely political performative act.
What a load of……(fill in your preferred species of excrement)!
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Warner. Complete idiot! A moron!
Seems like the equivalent of… “Daddy, if you don’t let me take the car, I’m going to cut up my (your) credit card.”
His response to the scum Wyden by Scott was hilarious…
Senator Wyden was probably worried that Treasury Secretary Bessent had another ten damning pieces of evidence written on that sheet of paper.
Whoa, Bessent gives as good as they do and then some. Powerful!
How can anyone take these electeds seriously. They are a raging clown show.
Even the promise of hearing Bessent speak couldn’t get me past 5:30. How could Warner/his staff not feel embarrassed to act like this…on the record…in front of recording instruments? (I know, I know…what am I saying, shame being a human emotion….)
I’ll try the rest of the clip…but…YEESH.
One of my neighbors wheezes like that. But she has to carry portable oxygen with her because her pulmonary fibrosis makes her need 24-hours-a-day oxygen.
That was entertaining. I thought I was watching a well acted movie for a moment. Then I got back to reality and it was only Warner getting knocked off his feet once again. I am astonished how unaware these Senators are that they have completely failed the American people by allowing so called experienced people in the IC to create a criminal organization. Then they stutter, gasp and shutter at the thought, as Sundance says, of having an “acting” DNI. That is as if there was not going to be the currently “acting” DNI working with him. To my mind one of Trump’s greatest accomplishments so far is putting together the cabinet he has, except for Waltz. We never would have gotten this far, as slow and tedious as it seems, in making inroads in the lawless intelligence apparatuses currently in place. These illegally running agencies are there because people like Warner through their negligence or worse, on purpose, have allowed them to terrorize and abuse innocent Americans by violating their constitutional rights.
Made me laugh. It’s intentional, all of it and all the perps know it. What they want is someone who is experienced at knowing which criminals to ignore and which criminals to prosecute. If the person in question is a patriotic American, getting a clearance for all but the tippy top should be no problem. It’s a lot of paperwork if they are in their 40s and 50s though.
I’m old enough to remember when Congressional hearings — especially in the Senate — were fairly sedate affairs that all present took seriously. Of course, those were the days before TV cameras were allowed in the room……
Control is the result of fear, Warner appears scared chitless! He needs to sit awhile out in the sun to dis-infect him!
I bet all of these RINO & Dhim Sen’tors have 4-5 ‘primary residence’ FHA mortgages on homes all over the place….like the ‘Friends of Angelo’ Countrywide CEO Mozillo…..with Pulte in as DNI AND Freddie & Fannie, he’ll be able to line up Compromat on ALL of the Slimey Sen’tors – THUNE, the TURTLE, ‘Big John’ Cornyn, Warner, etc, esp w Rubio kicking in his knowledge from the Senate ‘Intelligence’ committee member….
Warner looks and acts like a slimy Pedophile….
Investigate his ass!
Watching his hands shaking, wondering if Warner has Parkinson’s, or tremors from alcoholism(?)
I’ll go with the latter.
Warner & Co are so angry they may have to order another assassination attempt to restore their psychological equilibrium.
Democrats are just idiots. I sincerely suspect there is no sane Democrat left in America with political ambitions. The party no longer has sanity as a requirement to run for office.
fake politicians who show up once in awhile for their paychecks,
Maybe Warner is worried what this appointment may…and hopefully DOES lead to…..the downfall and exposing of not just him….but the whole corrupt demonrat party and their bedmate rat, rhino repubs!
How they sit through this and still maintain composure is beyond me. I thought Rubio was the best at swatting gnats away yesterday. Sec Bessent is always polite. Warner is beyond apoplexy, going to blow a gasket if he continues, OH HEAD SLAP, duh
Sundance’s writing and my fellow Treeper’s comments have provided a wonderful feeling of amusement and contentment.
May God be with you.
Warner reminded me of this scene in “My Cousin Vinny”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wj0jMvimnlI?feature=share