The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

Least qualified according to who? The Democrats?

It’s politics. These are political roles. It’s organizational leading and having people in place who are aligned with your goals, not splicing DNA.

And we’ve had the qualified one who got 90 Senate votes in confirmation and what did that get us? The Iraq War and the Afghan departure with abandoned locals falling off airplanes.

It’s laughable when the idea of checking the same boxes that always get checked is “qualified”.

He has zero experience running a large organization. The Secretary of Defense, while a political appointee, also requires some ability to manage a large organization, which again, he doesn’t have. And suggesting that we didn’t get the desired outcomes from another qualified candidate doesn’t mean we should switch to literally unqualified candidates. Take your partisan hat off for a few minutes and think about what qualities are necessary in a SecDef, and think about whether Hegseth meets them or not.

He was a major in the US Army, typically leading a battalion, and while not a government department, saying he has “no experience” is false.

What does a battalion leader need? Organizational ability, the ability to motivate.

He is preceded by a guy who decided to hide a serious health issue from his own boss (must have though nobody noticed Biden’s issues, so no biggie), to the point he was unreachable for days. So as long as he doesn’t do that, he’s already an improvement.

But I get it. It’s “it’s not my team so it’s bad” and then find the justification after. If the situation was flipped the Democrats would be talking up “fresh ideas” and promoting their lack of experience (Buttigieg). So I’ll just take this as politics and no actual, well thought out criticism.