We Do Not Need Directors and Secretaries
The delay in the confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr., and Kash Patel is evidence that we don't need anybody in these positions, or the agencies that they oversee
I voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, and support the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, for which she was confirmed yesterday, and don’t have any objection to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services though I wouldn’t go so far as to say I support him either. My feelings toward RFK in the role are that he’s better than most likely other choices would be. Kash Patel’s nomination as Director of the FBI I’m far more indifferent to, though that may be more my ignorance of him in general than any comment on him personally or politically. Democrats in Congress have been trying to stall these nominations for as long as possible, and, I think, have actually unwittingly done the American people a favor.
The delays in the confirmations of these people has shown us that the United States government operates just fine without anybody in these roles. We don’t need a Director of National Intelligence or a Secretary of Health and Human Services at all; in fact, we don’t need these departments at all, or they could certainly be cut to the bone with a metaphorical meat cleaver with no downsides.
Yes, if we must have a Director of National Intelligence I believe that Tulsi Gabbard is one of the best people that could be chosen for the role, though I’d have preferred her in the role of Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State over Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, respectively, but it’s clear that we do not need a Director of National Intelligence or a dozen different intelligence agencies. We don’t need a Department of Health and Human Services, we need enforceable laws that make it a crime for companies like Kellogg’s to promote their “food” as healthy rather than the poison that it is or for pharmaceutical companies to get away with pushing vaccines that not only don’t do what they claim to do but wind up actively harming many of the people who take them. The federal government bureaucrats at these agencies, not to mention the politicians who head them up, have a vested interest in making everything more complicated than it needs to be.
So, congratulations to Director Gabbard and to soon-to-be Secretary Kennedy, but I hope you both find yourselves unemployed sooner rather than later. Nothing personal.