{"id":2390419,"date":"2025-01-15T07:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jag-off-day-democrats-beclown-themselves-at-hegseth-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:34:40","slug":"jag-off-day-democrats-beclown-themselves-at-hegseth-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jag-off-day-democrats-beclown-themselves-at-hegseth-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;JAG-off&#8217; Day: Democrats Beclown Themselves At Hegseth Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjag-off-day-democrats-beclown-themselves-at-hegseth-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200dHouse of representatives \u200bhas recently passed a congressional time \u200dcapsule bill to commemorate\u200b the 250th anniversary \u200cof the United States, which will \u2062be celebrated \u2063in 2026. The time capsule will be \u2064buried on the west lawn of the Capitol and \u200dwill\u2063 remain sealed until \u200bJuly 4, 2276, the\u2064 nation&#8217;s 500th birthday. The contents \u200bof the capsule will be decided by leaders from \u2062both the House and Senate and will include significant legislative \u200ditems, a message to \u2063future Congresses, and artifacts representative of\u2064 the\u2063 current ancient context.<\/p>\n<p>In addition \u200cto\u2064 this legislation, there was a notable Senate Armed Services \u200dCommittee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">confirmation hearing<\/a> for President-elect trump&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. The hearing was characterized\u2062 by partisan tensions, with Democrats attempting\u200b to challenge Hegseth&#8217;s suitability for the role through a\u2062 series of pointed inquiries.\u2063 Hegseth,who has previously expressed controversial views about \u200cthe Democratic Party and \u200cthe military&#8217;s role \u2062in \u200cpolitics,faced criticism particularly from Senator Jack \u200bReed who claimed that Hegseth&#8217;s past statements\u200c could disqualify him from leadership.The discourse has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">highlighted ongoing ideological divides<\/a> regarding military culture and\u2062 political viewpoints\u200d within the American governance landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Because there are very few pressing matters facing the nation, the House recently passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/salazar.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/house-representatives-passes-salazars-america-250th-birthday-congressional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">congressional time capsule bill<\/a> to mark next year&rsquo;s 250th anniversary of the United States. Said capsule would be buried on the west lawn of the Capitol, remaining sealed until July 4, 2276, the 500th birthday of the good old US of A.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The offices of the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, and the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders will determine the contents, according to Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat and author of the bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They will include items that represent important legislation or institutional milestones of Congress, a message from this Congress to the future Congress, and other items that reflect our history at the time of its burial in 2026,&rdquo; she said in a<a href=\"https:\/\/watsoncoleman.house.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/rep-watson-coleman-bill-to-commemorate-americas-250th-birthday-with-time-capsule-passes-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s something you can shove into your time capsule, Bonnie: &ldquo;JAG-off&rdquo; Day with the Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many inane to insane moments at Tuesday&rsquo;s Senate Armed Services Committee&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/14\/pete-hegseth-makes-the-definitive-case-why-hes-qualified-to-be-trumps-defense-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmation hearing<\/a> for Trump Defense Secretary nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petehegseth?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>. But ranking member<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reed.senate.gov\/about\/jacks-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Sen. Jack Reed&rsquo;s<\/a> JAG line of questioning may have taken the clown show cake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;The Soul of the Modern Democratic Party&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>As expected, the Rhode Island Democrat and his fellow left-wingers on the committee turned the four-hour hearing into a bloviating, grandstanding performance to try to derail President-elect Trump&rsquo;s pick for DOD chief. It failed. But the Democrats&rsquo; talking points, dutifully echoed by the accomplice media, declared that Hegseth, pledging to restore a &ldquo;warrior culture&rdquo; at a DEI-riddled Department of Defense, is not qualified for the position. Beyond pumping out a long line of debunked salacious allegations against Hegseth, committee Democrats pounded at the nominee&rsquo;s past frankness about politics in the military.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The totality of your own writings and alleged conduct would disqualify any service member from holding any leadership position in the military, much less being confirmed as the secretary of defense,&rdquo; Reed postured during his opening remarks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What got the committee&rsquo;s top-ranking Democrat so verklempt about Hegseth&rsquo;s choice of words. In part, it&rsquo;s that the former Fox News host&nbsp; in his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Crusade-Fight-Stay-Free\/dp\/1546098747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free<\/em>,<\/a> wrote what many Americans believe.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Modern leftists who represent the soul of the modern Democratic Party literally hate the foundational ideas of America,&rdquo; Hegseth wrote. It&rsquo;s hard to disagree with that assessment after years of critical race theory, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/13\/robin-diangelo-smears-the-sistine-chapel-because-she-wants-to-destroy-western-civilization-not-antiracism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;antiracism,&rdquo;<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/06\/not-convinced-the-1619-project-lies-about-history-look-at-this-professors-forced-confession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1619 Project<\/a>, and other leftist dogma teaching that the United States of America is a systemically racist nation ruled by white supremacist oppressors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers.<\/p>\n<p>The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>&mdash;and me. So they smear w\/ fake, anonymous sources &amp; BS stories. They don&rsquo;t want truth.<\/p>\n<p>Our warriors never back down, &amp; neither will I. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nDQ5aUlv7i\">pic.twitter.com\/nDQ5aUlv7i<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteHegseth\/status\/1864289115149127942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;The Men and Women Watching Understand&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Reed also doesn&rsquo;t care for Hegseth&rsquo;s criticism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goarmy.com\/careers-and-jobs\/specialty-careers\/law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Judge Advocate General<\/a> officers, the military&rsquo;s lawyers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have made statements to your platoon after being briefed by a JAG officer,&rdquo; the senator said to Hegseth during questioning before pausing. &ldquo;By the way, would you explain what a &lsquo;JAG-off&rsquo; is?&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I need to, sir,&rdquo; Hegseth said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; Reed asked incredulously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because the men and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hegseth-spars-with-jack-reed-over-crude-nickname-for-selfish-military-officers-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Hegseth spars with Jack Reed over crude nickname for selfish military officers - Washington Examiner\">women watching understand<\/a>,&rdquo; the nominee answered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post will tell you JAG-off is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/01\/14\/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;crass term.&rdquo;<\/a> It&rsquo;s definitely an insult, a take on &ldquo;jagoff,&rdquo; generally an annoying dude who may or may not be an idiot. A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/slang\/jagoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> jerk<\/a>, according to Dictionary.com. Not surprisingly, plenty of service members, like civilians, aren&rsquo;t keen on lawyers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, perhaps some of my colleagues don&rsquo;t understand,&rdquo; Reed pushed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Known as a straight shooter in Army circles, Hegseth broke it down for the grandstanding Democrat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would be a JAG officer who puts his or her own priorities in front of the war fighters. Their promotions, their medals in front of having the backs of those that are making the tough calls on the front lines,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Jagoffs on Parade<\/h2>\n<p>Of course there are lots of jagoffs inside and outside the military. Congress is filled with jagoffs, more than a few in attendance at Tuesday&rsquo;s confirmation hearing. Corporate media outlets that cover congress are crawling with jagoffs. Democrats on the Armed Services Committee gave us a jagoff show for the ages, led by a ranking member who has been in congress since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/16622-C-C-Music-Factory?srsltid=AfmBOooI0pkMr-HPUpfimcP660uLz5qEajqpZBy4bs-As9I3rKpgTvCj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C+C Music Factory<\/a> was topping the Billboard Charts and insisting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LaTGrV58wec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;everybody dance now.&rdquo;<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The moment perfectly encapsulated what the Democrat Party is in 2025, a year before America&rsquo;s 250th birthday: Out of touch, out of power, out of their heads. A bunch of jagoffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Put that in the congressional time capsule and bury it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed a time capsule bill for the U.S. 250th anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2390420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-15-at-12.45.22-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,48513,48529,33930],"class_list":["post-2390419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-hegseth-hearing","tag-jag-off","tag-political-satire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-15-at-12.45.22-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390423,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390419\/revisions\/2390423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}