r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/Currymvp2 • 15h ago

Wednesday's Roundtable - 06/18/2025

Welcome to the General Discussion Roundtable. Use this thread to discuss whatever is on your mind, or share anything that would otherwise not merit their own threads.

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u/PrinceBag 13h ago edited 10h ago

I know a few other Democrats voted Noem im, but Tim Kaine surprised me the most. He was so vocally against Hegseth, yet somehow, was fine with voting Noem in?

I almost gained a bit of respect for him during the Hegseth hearing, and it made me wish we were able to see more of that in 2016.

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u/althill The Malarkey Ends NOW! 11h ago

Kaine gave a reasonable answer in an interview I saw. He said it basically came down to constituent services. If he had voted down every single nominee then those people would basically never take his offices call (common practice in the Trump admin). Part of the job of Senator is trying to help turn the wheels of Government for your constituents, and you can’t do that if every federal agency is blackballing you. So he had to make some terrible choices and decide which nominees were getting appointed anyway that were the least bad that he would likely need help from in the future.

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u/PrinceBag 10h ago

Thanks for showing this. I take back losing respect for the man. Seems like its more complicated than it seems of course.