At first, I believed the leak was about bombing “Hootie and the Blowfish.”
, the semi-rock band of the eighties that’s nonetheless touring.
Listening to snippets of the information, I believed that, being outdated now, the 5 rockers had been bombed whereas performing, or they have been simply plain bombed.
However then I spotted it was the Houthis in Yemen that President Donald Trump was bombing and never the ageing musicians, though Trump may have revived the profession of “Hootie and the Blowfish” the best way he introduced again the careers of “The Village Folks.”
As an alternative, Trump determined to do to the Houthis what he did to ISIS throughout his first time period as president. And that was to wipe the Iran-sponsored radical Islamist terrorist group off the face of the map. “And it didn’t take that lengthy,” Trump stated.
He’s doing the identical to the Houthis, as he promised he would in his marketing campaign, to cease them from firing on U.S. ships and worldwide vessels looking for to enter the Suez Canal, in addition to firing missiles into Israel. And it gained’t take that lengthy both.
And whereas the continued airstrikes have wrecked the Houthis by taking out important missile-launching services with no U.S. casualties, the Democrats attacked Trump and his protection and intelligence staff for leaks over the assault plan.
The leak took place when Democrat journalist/propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic journal was inadvertently included in an unsecure chat app during which Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out plans for putting the Houthis.
Trump referred to as the inclusion of the reporter a mistake, and the Democrat assaults “a witch hunt.” Hegseth downplayed the occasion, and Michael Waltz, the nationwide safety advisor, took full duty for the screwup, promising it could not occur once more.
The Democrats, who don’t have anything going for them, however went bonkers, appearing as if the leak was equal to World Warfare II Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower leaking plans for the Normandy invasion to the Germans.
They demanded a full investigation and Hegseth’s resignation, regardless that the strikes beneath his management have been a complete success.
These are the identical blowhard Democrats who had nothing to say when fellow woke blowhard Gen. Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees in Trump’s first time period, advised the Communist Chinese language that he would tip them off if Trump deliberate to assault them.
Trump as president is the commander in chief, however Milley made his sneaky calls to the Chinese language with out Trump’s information or approval.
These are the identical Democrats who coated up what they knew about President Joe Biden’s psychological and bodily decline at the same time as the general public witnessed Biden falling down, bumping into doorways, and barely making sense when he spoke. “He’s sharp as a tack,” they stated earlier than they threw him beneath the bus.
The Democrat assaults on Trump and his cupboard have, if doable, reached a brand new low over the Houthi affair. Nowhere will you discover a Democrat in Congress say something constructive about destroying the Houthis and opening up the ocean lanes.
As an alternative, they referred to as Hegseth a drunk.
Main that cost was shameless and envious Rep. Seth Moulton of Salem, who at a press convention requested if Hegseth “was simply incompetent or whether or not he was drunk.”
This is similar Moulton, a John Kerry wannabe (“I voted for the $87 billion earlier than I voted in opposition to it.”) who got here out in opposition to having males play in girls’s sports activities (“I’ve two little ladies.”) after which voted to permit them.
Moulton’s drawback is that he has did not advance his political profession and resents a fellow Iraq fight veteran of his age group acquiring a place that’s unattainable to him.
Moulton ran for president in 2019 earlier than dropping out. He twice in 2016 and 2018 did not oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi from her management place to make room for youthful members like himself.
Nevertheless, when Pelosi, the primary lady Speaker, stepped down in 2022, Moulton praised her for “breaking one of many hardest ceilings within the nation.”
It’s too dangerous Moulton can’t break by means of like Hegseth.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
