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On Monday, a most unusual attack was launched against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Attacks on Hegseth are pretty much par for the course as he's easily the member of President Trump's cabinet most hated by the left and the mainstream media. This one was unusual not only for its superficiality, but also for the ease with which it was debunked and the number of Democrat politicians and media outlets who let their hatred of a man and an administration prevent them from ever questioning the story. First off, if you've been in the military or federal government, you know what the procurement environment is like in September. It is the last month of the fiscal year. It is the witching hour for current fiscal year appropriations. This is when money is reprogrammed from accounts that can't spend it to those who can. Every cent has to be spent by September 30, or it is lost. Worse than lost, someone up the food chain may cut your budget since you didn't spend everything, thereby proving you were overfunded. Without tight management, it can devolve into a spending bacchanalia. Even with tight management, it would cause Ron Paul to stroke out. For some reason, The New Republic, which has degenerated from an outlet that sane people might read into a Tumblr for TDS sufferers, chose this week to cover Pentagon spending in September and was apparently unaware of the context and unwilling to ask for explanations. Some of the
frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s
stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the
Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as
the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2
million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.
(Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the
department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in
March, May, June, and October.)
The result was sad and hilarious. Sad that so many profoundly stupid people pretend to influence and govern us, and hilarious because laughing at self-unaware imbeciles is always fun. The mother lode of stupid comes from Paul Begala, one of the Clinton mafiosi and alleged strategist. He was on CNN's "The Source With Kaitlan Collins" Wednesday night, where he claimed that Hegseth, personally, ate the $6.9 million in lobster tail.
Here is the monumentally unfunny comedian Seth Meyers. Why does the left have to try to gaslight us into believing their comedians are funny? Don't they have real ones?
This man helps select federal judges and U.S. Attorneys.
And she's responsible for...for...well, for something that nepo-elected senators do, not really sure what that is, but it has to be important, amirite? Leftist media also piled on.
There was a clue built into The New Republic story that indicated some of this might not be as frivolous as alleged had someone with an IQ on the right side of the Bell Curve written it: "(Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)" Why, one might ask, is the Pentagon dropping $7 million per month on "surf and turf?" As it turned out, the grand piano was allocated to the Air Force band. We can debate that, but portraying it as adorning the Air Force Chief of Staff's living room was dishonest.
The answer to the steak-and-lobster scandal was rather mundane. It was for military dining facilities, in particular those deployed in war zones, or for ships and units whose deployments had just been extended as a sort of consolation prize.
What was saddest about this bizarre, though increasingly commonplace episode was the veterans who deliberately lied about what the expense entailed for the sole purpose of damaging the reputation of a much better man. Men so utterly degraded by their political stances that they have totally lost any vestigial sense of honor they once had. Even though Adam Kinzinger never got closer to combat than shooting some reporter (Watch: Senate Candidate Steps on One Last Rake, Justifying Wounding a Reporter – RedState), there is no doubt he experienced steak-and-lobster nights departing on or returning from deployments.
And there is Colorado Democrat Jason Crowe, a person (I won't use the term "man") with several combat deployments who participated in these meals and is now pretending it is a scandal.
This retired colonel sums up Crowe the best.
If you're not familiar with the term Blue Falcon, never say I wasn't generous with my time. The minions of the left are after Hegseth because he not only has stopped their "long march through the institutions" at the Pentagon, he is actively uprooting what they planted and sowing salt into the earth. But if this is the best they can do, he has nothing to worry about. |
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