I hope you haven’t missed this. The members of the Klown Kabinet had a rough time of it in front of Congress this week. First, homeland-security secretary Kristi Noem got shredded by Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire and one of the mildest members of the Senate.
Then the now-microscopic remains of Marco Rubio, currently presiding over the State Department, got chewed out by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen and didn’t like it much.
And finally, of course, HHS vandal RFK Jr. was back to treat Senator Patty Murray as though she were a dead whale carcass on the beach. It was an altogether sterling example of the fact that we are now fully under the Reign of Idiots. First, the dog murderer from South Dakota. Hassan asked her a simple question:
What is habeas corpus?
To which Secretary Noem replied:
Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country…
This is the political equivalent of answering the question “What is 2+2?” with “Elephant fungus lemonade.” Hassan cut Noem off before the country got any dumber.
Rubio and Van Hollen wrangled over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is, after all, one of Van Hollen’s constituents from Maryland. Rubio sought refuge in the administration’s evil fairy tales.
Van Hollen: “The Supreme Court, in a 9–0 decision, instructed you to facilitate the return to the United States of Abrego Garcia, who the administration admitted was wrongfully deported to El Salvador. Your response, you have openly flouted judicial orders. When asked whether you had been in touch with El Salvador to return Abrego Garcia, you boasted, ‘I would never tell you that, and you know who else I would never tell, a judge.’ ”Rubio: “No judge in the judicial branch can tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy. … We deported gang members, gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gangbanger.”Van Hollen, interjecting: “Mr. Chairman, he can’t make unsubstantiated claims like that!”
The “margarita” business, by the way, was yet another bag job from the White House’s pals in El Salvador. I’m sure Rubio had more to say, but my electron microscope ran out of juice, and I couldn’t see him any more.
And, last, Mr. Secretary and Senator Murray talked about the nation’s health, Mr. Secretary presumably having toweled off after his family dip in Fecal Creek.
Murray: “[I am] pretty confused and concerned about what is happening at your department. You repeatedly claimed that staffing and funding cuts that have been reported on publicly and even confirmed by your department staff are not happening. So either you’re lying or you’re not the one making the decisions.”Kennedy: “I want to point out something, Senator; You presided here, I think, for 32 years; you presided over the destruction of the health of the American people. Our people are now the sickest people in the world.”
Well, some of them are, anyway.