'Making us less safe': Democrats who voted to confirm Kristi Noem say they made a mistake

[justaprogressive]

Seven Senate Democrats who supported Kristi Noem’s confirmation as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary in January are now expressing regret and disillusionment with her performance, NBC News reported Wednesday.

Noem was approved just five days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. Seven Democrats had joined Republicans in a 59–34 vote. They hoped for constructive, bipartisan leadership at the time.

Now, they are disappointed by their decision.

"I'm very disappointed. I'm very disappointed in her," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told NBC. If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn't vote for her," he added.

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) echoed this sentiment.

"She's weaponizing the Department of Homeland Security. She is taking so many actions right now that are making us less safe and going against a lot of the things that she said that she was going to focus on," Kim said Wednesday. "So I have no confidence in her leadership right now," he said, per the NBC report.

https://www.alternet.org/kristi-noem-democrats/

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[Ritabert]

1. DUH! Perhaps the fate of the dog and goat should have clued them in.

[1WorldHope]

2. So what are you going to do about it?

For fucks sake, we told you that you had to fight to keep everyone of his neo nazis out. WE told you to vote against everyone of them!

[newdeal2]

3. There should have been zero votes for any Trump nominee

They were all unqualified. I question the judgement of anyone who couldn’t see that from the beginning.

[Lovie777]

4. Ugh.....

[Aristus]

5. You THINK???

Jesus! We could have told you that was going to happen. The witch weaponizes everything! She shoots dogs, for crying out loud!

I'm ashamed that you are Democrats. We deserve better!

[peggysue2]

6. Failure of Imagination

The signs of who and what Kristie Noem is/was were perfectly obvious, another Trump lackey who was itching to abuse whatever authority she was given.

There was no appeasing Agent Orange in the past and certainly not in the present. Everyone heard his plans regarding mass deportations.

Unfortunately, regret is useless at this point.

[dlk]

7. Oh please, Dems who voted for Noem knew exactly what they were voting for

They’re merely concerned about the blowback.

[kwolf68]

8. These people just have no clue

Constructive, bipartisan? Again, I think some Dems believe this is the 1987 Republican Party. This is NOT your fathers Republicans and we need to start acting like that.

[Wingus Dingus]

9. Why did ANY Democrat for for ANY of TACO Don's people?

Just symbolically vote NO as a protest.

[BlueTsunami2018]

10. I'm not buying this.

Anyone with sense knew she wasn’t qualified for any position anywhere.

That’s not poltical bias, that’s just a fact.

The only person marginally qualified for their position was Rubio. And even that was something of a stretch.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. No - really????

Andy Kim made that vote as former Congressman - I hope he's learning he's now carried by Newark and Jersey City and so he can just be a Liberal now.

[Vinca]

12. Ya think??????????

[lame54]

13. No shit...

Vote NO on anything MAGA

[Blue Full Moon]

14. Democrats shouldn't have voted on anything that trump wants

[ILikePie92]

15. No, really?

Voting to confirm Dumps nominees was a mistake? NFW? Who could've imagined?

[Bettie]

16. Shocked...they're shocked, I tell you

that voting to confirm completely unqualified people was not the best idea they've ever had. Neat.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

17. I was chewed out for opposing her because..

..."she was a governor. Clearly she's suited for the job."

She wasn't suited to be governor of South Dakota.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Isn't This Admitting..

...that they haven't been paying attention the last 9 years?

[RockRaven]

19. All seven can fuck off. They were thoroughly warned what she would be like.

And if they thought voting to confirm her would lead to "constructive bipartisan leadership" as the article says, they are hopelessly ignorant and incompetent. There was absolutely no reason to have ever believed such a thing.