WSJ: By Blocking Gaetz Confirmation, Senators Helped the Country--and Trump

What a blockhead nomination.

Trump seems to just go for fame/notoriety.

I withheld judgment on Gaetz, given the left's routine character assassination of its opponents. But sounds like they were right this time.

I'm basically a libertarian about such stuff in theory--I don't care about people taking drugs, nor about adults exchanging money (or anything else) for sex. But what's ok in theory often has prohibitively negative unintended consequences. E.g.: drug cartels, sex trafficking, the destruction of neighborhoods... As for the statutory rape charge, we're not told what the age of consent is wherever that allegedly happened...but it's hard to believe they'd let him get away with that if it was below 18...dunno whether 18 is being used there as a rule of thumb or what...

Anyway: yes, dumb nomination. I didn't expect it to go through. Let's move on.