If Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing on Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was a fiery clown car wreck (and it was), Wednesday’s question-and-answer session for President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Transportation was a Sunday ride down a smooth stretch of rural road.
But then again, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation prides itself on its cordiality, its collegiality. As chairman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, figuratively put it, the more genteel committee is a place of daisies in the hair and for the singing of Kumbaya.
A stretch? Yes. This is still politics after all in the tireless battle between blue and red. But unlike the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Hegseth endured fierce and fatuous unfriendly fire from
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