Yesterday, Senate Democrats on the Armed Services Committee expressed outrage that Pete Hegseth would not meet with them before his confirmation hearing. Most of them went on to demonstrate why, with the possible exception of Jeanne Shaheen. 

Today, the only Senate Democrat to refuse to meet with Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi complained that Bondi wouldn't answer her questions .... while talking over all of Bondi's responses. And of course, that Senate Democrat is the Pride of Hawaii, Mazie Hirono, who continues to demonstrate her unfitness for office every time she gets a national platform.

Hegseth took pains to remain deferential. Bondi, on the other hand, felt free to let her contempt show:

Pam Bondi was NOT taking Sen. Hirono's crap:

"You were the only one who refused to meet with me, senator..." pic.twitter.com/izxg0Sd9j8

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 15, 2025

Bondi has a greater range of options in this hearing than Hegseth did in his. Hegseth almost certainly won confirmation by demonstrating his coolness under fire and his disciplined cordiality during a terribly hostile hearing. Bondi starts off with an assured confirmation, likely with some Democrats on board eager to contrast that vote with their opposition to Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard later. Bondi also has more inclination to confront stupidity and double-dealing rather than tolerate it, and Mazie Hirono is a nearly unending source of both. 

Believe it or not, this is not the dumbest question today from the person who has clearly emerged as the dumbest person in the Senate. This is the dumbest question, apropos of nothing other than Hirono's fetid fevered imagination:

Senator Mazie Hirono disgustingly asks Pam Bondi if she's committed sexual assault or harassment.

She's using Bondi's hearing to take more digs at Pete Hegseth. pic.twitter.com/qCH3B2V7Pl

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) January 15, 2025

Narrator: It is not the responsibility of senators to ask about sexual assaults or unwanted advances of nominees, unless their record includes such allegations. Nothing in Bondi's record even suggests a hint of such actions, and yet rather than discuss policy around the Department of Justice and/or Bondi's clear qualifications to assume the office of Attorney General, Hirono instead prefers to grandstand on noxious irrelevancies. 

And even when Hirono gets to actual policy issues, she's so badly outmatched that she has to run away. For instance, Hirono tried to take a slap at Donald Trump over immigration, bringing up a quote about illegals "poisoning the blood of our nation." Bondi jumped at the chance to talk about rape-crisis centers at the border, and suddenly Hirono hit retreat:

MAZIE HIRONO: Trump said illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. Do you agree?

PAM BONDI: I went to the border and visited a r*pe crisis center. It was horrific. I'm sure you've been to the border as well, so you can answer that.

HIRONO: I want to get to the… pic.twitter.com/Bj5y8eu0Ge

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 15, 2025

Er ... wouldn't immigration issues come under Homeland Security? Shouldn't that question get directed to Kristi Noem during her confirmation hearing? The DoJ has some involvement in border issues, but Congress assigned most of those tasks to DHS when it created that department in 2006. Does Hirono even know that? 

Does she know anything? Has she accomplished anything? Hirono succeeded Daniel Akaka in 2013 after three nondescript terms in the House, and the only legislative accomplishment noted on her Wikipedia page was a 2021 bill that addressed hate crimes against Asian-Americans during the COVID pandemic. Otherwise, her only function appears to be making other Senate Democrats look relatively sane and sober during confirmation hearings. And even that seems to be a losing effort. 

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