You know all those hours of confirmation hearings we've been sitting through? All of it has been useless. Even for Sen. Bob Corker, who sometimes leans toward the sane side the GOP spectrum. But now that popular vote loser Donald Trump is in charge and wants to install former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, Corker says Tillerson will get a full vote in the Senate regardless of how his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote.
No matter what—even if the foreign relations panel deems Tillerson unfit for the job, which is completely possible if Sen. Marco Rubio defects on the vote. Never mind that Tillerson is considered to be among the most questionable of Trump's cabinet picks. (The last time a cabinet nominee failed in committee but was later approved by the full Senate was in 1945, when Henry Wallace was ultimately confirmed 56-32.)
More and more the gap is narrowing between us and the authoritarian regimes we were all taught were inferior forms of government. The rules are already being rewritten under Trump and the GOP congressional majority. Bullying civil servants? Sure. Destroying Senate protocol? "Absolutely," says Corker.
In fact, Trump thinks a muscular national security begins with military parades at home.
What's next, book burning?
Or maybe Breitbart's rebranding as AT (American television)?