When Tillis asks for your vote

Transcript:I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Thursday, March 27, 2025 and the Republic is still standing but it’s being sabotaged by its own government.The bumbling National Security Team that allowed an independent reporter, Jeffery Goldberg, into a Signal group chat about an airstrike in Yemen keeps stepping on the rake. They’re like a bunch of Keystone Kops. I hear Benny Hill music every time I see one of them on the screen.When the story broke, Director of Defense Pete Hegseth called Goldberg a liar, only to find out that the administration had admitted the mistake. In other words, Hegseth revealed himself to be the one lying.Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Congress that nothing in the chat group was classified. Then they attacked Goldberg and claimed he was overstating what was said in the chat.So, Goldberg released the chat and made them all out to be liars.So how did we end up with such a bunch of Bozos as Members of the Cabinet? Well, people like Thom Tillis, who knew better, approved them.Way back in December, when people of all political stripes were criticizing the Cabinet nominees, Trump and his cronies started putting pressure on Republican Senators to approve them. They threatened retribution, like primarying incumbent Senators.Back then, Thom Tillis was still pretending to have a spine. He told the press that the pressure campaign might back-firing on the Trump administration.Just a month later, Tillis was the one bending to the pressure. He voted to approve Hegseth and every one of the nominees he knew to be incompetent.Now, he’s trying to cover up for them. On Monday, Tillis told the press it would be a one-day story.We’re on day four now and pressure is mounting for somebody to take the fall.But Tillis isn’t just defending incompetence. He’s defending an assault on our government. He said yesterday that he would support closing Social Security offices even though the Administration is ending phone support for many senior citizens.He supports Musk’s order to freeze FEMA grants. We still have thousands of people in Western North Carolina waiting for that support. And now we have wildfires in the mountains that might force people to abandon their homes. Thom Tillis will leave them high and dry.Thom Tillis is covering up for incompetence in the Cabinet he supported. He’s hanging senior citizens out to dry. And he’s abandoning victims of disasters in own state.And next year, he’s going to ask for your vote. Don’t forget.I’m Thomas Mills signing off for PoliticsNC Get full access to PoliticsNC at www.politicsnc.com/subscribe