Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy (D-NJ) is one of the more odious people in Congress (I don't use the words "odious" and "execrable" for that many people, but he certainly fits the bill).
He was at it again, attacking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during a hearing with DHS head Markwayne Mullin. Murphy ridiculously claimed that the DHS was violating the law and the Constitution every day, which is truly ugly stuff because Murphy doesn't give a darn about all the good men and women he is smearing when he makes comments like that.
He does it because the Democrats are desperate to attack President Donald Trump and wrest power from the Republicans. And that's despicable. But Mullin, Murphy's former colleague, brought Murphy up short with a little reality. Murphy deserves this, and so much more.
"The outlandish claims you made there is just flat wrong. You start saying we're breaking the law, and you really start looking at it, and we're enforcing laws that Congress did pass. That's reckless.
When you say it's unconstitutional, what's unconstitutional? We swore to uphold the Constitution just like you swore.
For you to throw my 275,000 employees underneath DHS, with a broad stroke like that, is reckless and irresponsible on your part.
We're doing the job that Congress gave us the authority to do, and our men and women out there every single day is enforcing laws. If you don't like the laws, you can change them.
We're not picking and choosing which laws to enforce. We're simply enforcing the law. Period. Full stop.
Mullin put Murphy on the spot on the danger he was helping to cause to law enforcement.
When you throw out reckless terms and you start referring to our agents as being "dangerous, unconstitutional, and lawless," that's why our agents' death threats are up by 8,000 percent.
I know that's not what you want. But your political theater, that's what it causes. When you start looking at assaults on our officers, they're up by 1,300 percent. Senator Murphy, is that what you want?
Then Mullin really nailed Murphy over his political ambitions and what he really cares about.
"I understand the political theater, I understand wanting to get soundbites, and that was obvious because the whole time you was giving your testimony, he wasn't looking at me, he was looking at a camera. I get that. If you have bigger political ambitions, just say it. But don't do it at the expense of my officers. If you want to talk about funding, you haven't funded my officers; CBP and ICE have been willing to work for free.
The agents were willing to do it, Mullin said, because of the reckless Biden administration and the problem they left behind.
But they shouldn't have to, and that's all the fault of the Democrats, who refuse to support enforcing the law when it stands in the way of their political agenda.