The Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan, and former Communications Director for VP Harris, Ashley Etienne, had some really bad advice for Democrats on this Sunday’s Meet the Press.
While discussing the pressure being put on Republican senators to rubber stamp all of Trump’s dangerous and unqualified cabinet nominees, Nooners started things off by insisting that Democrats had better not allow themselves to look too “obstructionist or partisan,” during the hearings, because heaven forbid they might be allowed to act the same way Republicans do day in and day out.
NOONAN: I believe it was Lisa Murkowski who said just the other day, I think, to No Labels, “Look, people are put – being put under real pressure. You better toe the line.”
It’s a very funny thing that they – there was a time when you were afraid, if you were a Republican, of Donald Trump. You are now afraid of Donald Trump’s operatives on the ground in various states who, as Lisa Murkowski said, will primary you, will push you around in any number of ways.
So they’re under real pressure. But in a funny way, the Democrats are going to be under pressure too. It’ll be pressure in these sparky hearings that everybody watches, not to seem merely obstructionist or partisan, to be well read, know your brief, know who this person is, and pull them out. Let them reveal themselves.
