Sasse On NYT Op-Ed: ‘Troubling’ But ‘Not Surprising’

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) seemed resigned when he weighed in on the New York Times’ anonymous op-ed during Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Thursday.

“You know, I don’t know how to talk about it, yet. I mean honestly, I’m still processing it,” Sasse said. “It’s just so similar to what so many of us hear from senior people around the White House, you know, three times a week. So it’s really troubling, and yet in a way, not surprising.”

He added that there are many good people serving the President and the country, but also critiqued the piece’s author.

“I don’t understand the morality of why anyone would write the piece, because it seems pretty obvious to me that what it’s going to do is foster more paranoia,” he told Hewitt. “I think that the ultimate decision to publish feels self-serving, and so for the sake of public trust, I think if somebody wants to talk about the 25th Amendment, they ought to do it in public.”

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  1. You’re on the Judiciary Committee, Senator, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE PRESENT CRISIS? An opportunity to do something effective is right there in front of you, hoping to be confirmed for life to the Supreme Court.

  2. Sassy is “troubled”. Not exactly a new look is it. So what’s he gonna do? Think it’s time for him to bump this up to the “concerned” elevated state?

  3. Buckle up:

    Boom: Those secret Kavanaugh emails that the Judiciary Committee won't let out? We've got them: Abortion, affirmative action, surveillance. Now the committee has something to talk about. https://t.co/lJJm7CADbU

    — (((JonathanWeisman))) (@jonathanweisman) September 6, 2018
  4. These people would watch a kid with a gun going around shooting randomly, and just stand there and say that its troubling, but wont do anything to stop the kid.

  5. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    Sen Sasse, do you ignore tornado sirens when you’re back in Nebraska?

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