{"id":735,"date":"2025-04-08T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:26:40","slug":"vance-slams-mcconnell-votes-show-political-pettiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/vance-slams-mcconnell-votes-show-political-pettiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance slams McConnell: Votes show &#8216;political pettiness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance on Tuesday slammed former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) for voting against President Trump\u2019s pick for a top Pentagon role, characterizing it as an act of &#8220;political pettiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch\u2019s vote today\u2014like so much of the last few years of his career\u2014is one of the great acts of political pettiness I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1909660275583709358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post<\/a> on social media platform X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McConnell was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5238328-mcconnell-elbridge-colby-pentagon-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the only Republican to vote against<\/a> Elbridge Colby to serve as undersecretary of policy at the Pentagon, the No. 3 role at the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n\t\t<span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\">\n<div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more newsletters <a href=\"http:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/join\/7aa\/signup\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-logo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the Evening Report newsletter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form_input form-group\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-add-subscriber-errors\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"input-group-btn\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sailthru-signup-display-button\" type=\"submit\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\tif ( window.checkSizeClasses &amp;&amp; window.checkSizeClasses instanceof Function) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twindow.checkSizeClasses();<br \/>\n\t\t\t}<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Colby was confirmed Tuesday in a 54-45 vote, with three Democrats \u2014 Sens. Jack Reed (R.I.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), who all sit on the Armed Services panel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5237883-senate-confirms-elbridge-colby-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voting with Republicans<\/a> to approve his nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement explaining his vote, McConnell took issue with Colby\u2019s past statements that the U.S. should turn its national security focus toward the Indo-Pacific and away from other areas, warning of \u201cgeostrategic self-harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy. Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move,\u201d said McConnell, who has served in the Senate for four decades and has had a contentious relationship with President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,&#8221; the longtime Republican leader added.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, who does not plan to run for reelection, also voted against the confirmations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/02\/13\/nx-s1-5296920\/rfk-kennedy-confirmation-mitch-mcconnell-hhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health and Human Services<\/a> Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5140808-mitch-mcconnell-tulsi-gabbard-dni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Director of National Intelligence<\/a> Tulsi Gabbard and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5106231-mitch-mcconnell-pete-hegseth-confirmation-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defense Secretary<\/a> Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance on Tuesday slammed former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) for voting against President Trump\u2019s pick for a top Pentagon role, characterizing it as an act of &#8220;political pettiness.&#8221; \u201cMitch\u2019s vote today\u2014like so much of the last few years of his career\u2014is one of the great acts of political pettiness I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Vance said in a post on social media platform X.\u00a0 McConnell was the only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}