Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, if you need him.
In many ways, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) embodies everything wrong with Washington. He whines about the Senate’s impotence, but has no legislative achievements of his own. He ridicules his colleagues for craving media attention, but is a regular on cable news and Sunday talk shows. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, he has been silent on Spygate and FISAgate and Justice Department corruption, but speaks up whenever he sees an opportunity to criticize a president he did not support. And he threatens to leave his own party while accepting millions of dollars in contributions from Republican donors.
But the first-term senator’s speech on Wednesday night about the issues surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination was a galling performance even by Sasse standards. Aside from a shaky 90-second interaction with Kavanaugh last week, Sasse has not said anything about the Left’s political assassination attempt of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Speaking to an empty Senate chamber late in the evening, Sasse delivered a weepy, meandering, and self-aggrandizing monologue about our nation’s “decline into tribalism.” Without any sense of irony, he accused his colleagues of being “preening and grandstanding senators looking for soundbites.” (Sasse is about to embark on his second book tour in as many years.)
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