We gave Tim Kaine hell back in January when he voted to confirm Kristi Noem as the Homeland Security secretary.
Who could have foreseen that the cosplaying tough gal would become the hatchet for the Trump administration’s efforts to deport millions of brown people and rough up U.S. senators?
Aside from the 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, that she shot in the head, that is.
ICYMI
Now Kaine is telling NBC News that he’s “very disappointed” in Noem.
“If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her,” Kaine said this week.
Too late.
Kaine and Virginia’s other U.S. Senate Democrat, Mark Warner, were all too willing to comply in advance at the beginning of Trump 2.0, which is why I started calling them Vichy Democrats, a reference to the native French who cooperated with the Nazis during the occupation of France in World War II.
Of course their votes wouldn’t have kept the likes of Noem, Marco Rubio, a Warner BFF who has morphed into a slapdash of Kissinger and von Ribbentrop, Pete Hegseth, RFK’s worm-addled anti-vaxxer kid, the rest, from doing their damage.
I know what they were trying to achieve – give a little to get a little – but we’d already been through a Trump administration, so we already knew that the Trumpers don’t give an inch, so traditional compromise politics is pointless.
We told Kaine and Warner that months ago.
Glad to see they’re finally, formally, acknowledging that they get it.
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Chris Graham
