Richard Blumenthal said...

This moment cries out for presidential leadership.

It was demanding, groveling, and the kind of belittling and bullying that occurred there, I think is absolutely shameful...

Displays of hardware, whether its tanks or Stryker vehicles, is more characteristic of totalitarian militaristic states ...

Putting someone in that role who’s been approved for a different job is a thumb in the eye of the Senate.