Nobody’s calling him ‘Little Marco’ anymore. Not the 2026 edition of Rubio.
When Biden’s appointees were called out by the GOP, the point of contention was always around things they had said or done. Mayorkas. Fauci. Garland. General Milley. (And so on.) Many of those allegations have later matured into actual criminal investigations or prosecutions. That includes Fauci’s direct subordinate falsifying official documents.
Contrast that against the grievances against Trump appointees. Unsubstantiated allegations about Patel being drunk or missing. (By the same people who neither noticed nor cared when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went AWOL.)
They whine that SCOTUS is ‘illegitimate’ (even when they vote 9-0 or 8-1 against issues Dems care about). They amplify every rumor suggesting division in the ranks, while working hard to sweep every massive accomplishment (from jobs numbers and tax cuts to cratering crime stats) under the rug.
In lieu of having any real political power beyond raw obstruction, they take their opportunity for oversight as an exercise in public theatrics, with gotcha questions as intellectually honest as ‘do you still beat your wife’.
Trump’s appointees were chosen with these assumptions baked into the cake. Dems are going to sling mud at oversight meetings. In a world where political fortunes can rise and fall with snapshots and soundbites, it’s important that cabinet appointees don’t get bullied by such tactics.
Every appointee has their own personality and panache in riding out such storms. Kash is combative. Bessent is almost cooly surgical.
Rubio comes prepared with a matter-of-fact professionalism.
The Junior senator from Nevada just learned that the hard way, when she tried to claim Rubio was at some kind of a party when he should have been on the job as Secretary of State.
"I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true."
Source: Clash Daily
