Secretary Mehgel

So, this happened. 

A lot of conservatives are worked up over it. I just can’t muster the interest. So, an anti-Semite simpleton who’s sweet on Iran is now the Secretary of Defense.

A quick review of some of the other lovable scamps to grace the President's cabinet makes me wonder exactly how Chucky’s appointment is a jaw-dropper.

The former Treasury Secretary is a tax cheat.

 

The Attorney General has allowed racial prejudice to determine which cases his office will prosecute, and presided over the fantastically catastrophic Fast and Furious gun running scheme, which, you'll recall,  allowed Mexican drug lords to waltz off with 1800 firearms —some of which were used in the murder of an American Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, as well as at least 150 Mexicans—and which was done without the cooperation or even the knowledge of the Mexican government.

The current Secretary of State possibly committed treason in his younger days by negotiating directly with North Vietnam, which he had absolutely no authority to do, while the US was still at war with them. 

And the previous Secretary of State, resplendently adorned with baggage before she took the gig, bears more responsibility for the slaughter of Americans at Benghazi than anyone but the President himself.

Look, like Allahpundit says in the top link, the grown up decisions about defending the country are going to be left up to the C-in-C and whomever he’s assigned to hold Hagel’s hand at the Pentagon. Yes it’s pathetic. Yes, if the President were a Republican, the media would be portraying this as Hitler appointing Himmler. But look, in the last 4 years, I’ve had a tyrannical health care law for which nobody asked imposed upon me; watched my President seriously consider extending American jurisprudence to the architect of 9/11; been outraged by Fast and Furious, and again by Benghazi. I’m kind of running low on outrage at the moment. It will take a bigger insult than Chuck Hagel to get my blood boiling.