Democrats are taking “party before country” to a new level. Intent on blind resistance to everything and anything the President hopes to achieve, Senate Democrats are now planning a risky gambit to block CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination for Secretary of State – national security consequences be damned.
While such a move is sure to delight their party’s left-wing activists, it will put red state Democrats up in 2018 between a rock and a hard place. Will they stand with Senate liberals’ plan to keep the cabinet’s top national security position vacant? Or will they come out against such obstruction for the good of the country and risk alienating their base? Either way, red state Dems are sure to feel the heat back home.
“Senate Democrats playing political games with our country’s national security may be popular with far-left activists, but red state voters won’t take kindly to such partisan stunts,” said NRSC Communications Director Katie Martin. “If Red state Democrats refuse to stand up to their liberal colleagues on national security, it only proves to voters they’re unfit to continue serving in office.”