Mikie Sherrill
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607 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jan
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And by the way, the group team meeting at I think his in his leadership was taking place at a strip club because of his intoxication. You know, you're just looking at somebody. Why? Why? Like, it just feels like such a really an F you to women. It's like I am putting this particular person up for this role because I just want it. I just want to show how little I respect the service of women.
I just want it to be clear to everyone that I totally feel this disregard for women. That's what it feels like. It feels like a gut punch.
You know, this is to their credit. I mean, this is why I'm so impressed often with people who join our military, because there is something special. very much in the line of public service about it. You don't join the military because you're gonna get rich. You don't join the military to make a million dollars.
You in fact join the military to do some really grueling work for some really bad pay and some really yucky places, right? But you do it because you have this sense of pride And you do it because you want to protect people, because you want to protect the nation, because you want to protect our values, because you care about the Constitution.
And so I will tell you, I have not heard one person in the military say, oh, I don't want Pete Hegseth to be there because it would be humiliating and degrading to report to him. It certainly would.
No, it would. No, it would.
Let's be clear. However, what I hear is their deep fear for the security of the nation. So if he is intoxicated and, you know, we're talking about whether or not Russia has just launched a nuke or what's going on in Taiwan in the middle of the night, like or, you know, a ship being attacked in the Straits of Hormuz, who's making decisions then? And oh, by the way.
I have been in the situation room to talk about concerns I've had under a Trump administration with the president not reading his presidential briefing book. The excuse for not addressing something was, oh, he didn't read it. So who's in charge here of our national security? Who's in charge of our defense? Who's making those decisions?
And who's getting in the president's ear to make these decisions? And if it's Pete Hegseth, I think we're all in a great deal of trouble.
It's so I mean, should we? Maybe yes. Right. Maybe maybe the answer should be let them die on the vine. Show the nation what true Republican majority actually looks like if left to their own devices. It's just not how we're built. Right. Like I can't sit there and watch somebody take our country down because it's not a zero sum game. Maybe it should be.
Maybe I should think of it as a zero sum game. Republicans lose. Democrats win. I don't. We all lose, right? If the House of Representatives isn't functioning in any way, shape, or form, we all lose. We have to keep the government open. We have to engage in that, too. Are you sure? Are you sure? Well, I mean, I'm already frustrated. It sounds like we're going to have a continuing resolution.
So, first of all, that's just… you know, when you come from the armed services world and the national security world, that is such a huge waste of money at the very least for the Department of Defense. You can't have new start programs. You can't continue some of the ongoing programs to restart them once the new budget gets passed is a huge cost.
And we're doing all this as we're desperately trying to innovate and trying to meet the challenges of a really complicated world. So it's just a really horrible way to run a railroad. But where we're at is
you know, we are now, you know, we're going to see Republicans with some, some reconciliation bills, some bites at the apple of just having passing huge pieces of legislation through the Senate with a simple majority. We're really putting a lot of ability to get an agenda done in their hands. So just kind of, you know, not engaging or not, or letting them fail is,
I think would really be a disservice. I think it would allow them to run with a very bad agenda. I think failing is maybe part of the agenda of some in the Republican Party, meaning that they don't like government and they just sort of want government to implode. So allowing that to happen would just seem to meet some of the agenda on the far right. But then the question is, what do we do?
How do we keep moving forward in a way that keeps the country running and tries to block as much of a bad agenda as possible? And that's a tough one. I mean, it's really tough. I go back and forth. I didn't enter Congress to enter into the least productive Congress in the history of the nation, right? That was not my agenda. I told you I'm an action-oriented person.
Right? Well, that's the other side, right? I'm like, well, but if they're unproductive, at least they're not getting a really incredibly bad agenda passed that's going to punish women and roll back environmental protections in the wake of climate change. you know, defund some of the infrastructure programs that are so important to roads and bridges and tunnels, etc.
So, yes, but it's going to be a really delicate balance. I have to say that Hakeem Jeffries, I think, has been masterful for the last Congress at trying to navigate through these landmines and trying to keep pressure on the speaker for the Democratic agenda, even in a Republican majority. And I think, you know, we'll continue to press forward on that.
You know, here we have a Trump administration that is purporting to go after political enemies. And so it's not like we're doing this or the president's looking at this in a vacuum and what might be coming and might the justice system really function well in the future with Kash Patel as the head of the FBI, for example. And yet...
At the same time, it does just undermine the credibility and faith in the Justice Department and faith in our leaders. And so I look at this, and this is why it just seems like we need a new generation of leaders. We need a fresh perspective.
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