But that shouldn’t have stopped them: After all, Massie’s a lame duck, too. If you have any principles, then use all of your time, including your lame-duck months, to advance those principles. Heck, especially your lame-duck time.
Plus, I doubt that the 27% chance is “impeachment and removal through a vote on a trial in the Senate”. If so and I were a political better in a fair market, I’d bet against that, (but neither of those are true).
27% chance of him being gone, whatever the reason from his post being 27%, on the other hand, yeah, that sounds about right.
“Well THERE’s your problem…”
I’ll bet he orders the guard to be fired. The guard’s superior officer will decline, so he will be removed.
I doubt the guard will be fired because that would be a public relations nightmare.
That’s never stopped him before.
I agree. He realizes he’s on thin ice. He will keep his powder dry on this matter because of self preservation, not because of any sense of fairness. If the politics shifted, he’d schedule a televised execution.
Who took and released that video? Just today there was a ceremony with Hegseth honoring that soldier Hegseth awards medal to guard who scolded him at Tomb of Unknown Soldier that seemed just a bit too convenient considering all the anti-military crap he has been pulling lately. Was this staged, or am I paranoid?
I vote staged. But in the next impeachment go-around, add “doesn’t know how to behave like an adult in public” to the articles, and cite this incident.
Yeah, I know, that’s not technically a crime. Still, a girl can dream.
Was a medal ceremony staged? How could it not be?
No.
Was the whole thing staged to make Hegseth look good, from the conveniently filmed video from an anonymous source, to the filmed yelling by the soldier, to the full ceremony before the cameras just a day later?
I suppose it’s possible, but I don’t think anyone in this administration could successfully formulate a plan to bust out of a wet paper sack, so I’m going to have to go with unlikely.
Whereas I find the speed and convenience of the whole thing to be even more unlikely.
Hegseth just happened to come up with a good response to his embarrassing, disrespectful blunder. Giving the guy a medal- that’s a good response.
That’s because the current Republican speaker of the house rushed the vote specifically to catch the Democrats out of the Capitol. Blaming the Dems for this is ridiculous.
I don’t think it’s convenient at all; regardless of the response, Hegseth looks even worse than before. The last thing he needs right now is more bad press.
As for the speed, this is what we call “scrambling” or “damage control”.
You’re right, that could be the best possible response to that situation.
Which means that I highly doubt it was Hegseth’s idea.
What Medal was it?
And even if they had all been there, glued to their seats- still the same outcome. I think that that the GOP dumped it in Committee is a better outcome.
As the article linked by @Czarcasm clearly states it’s the
prestigious Joint Service Commendation Medal
Which is a little weird, since the Tomb Guard isn’t a joint billet. I would have expected the Army Commendation Medal.
Maybe it’s the Joint award because it was rushed out by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, not through the proper Department of the Army channels.