President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to the single most important intelligence job in the Executive branch. Trump has selected Gabbard to be America’s next Director of National Intelligence. Her confirmation hearings promise to be explosive events with Democrats throwing hissy fits and calling her a “Russian asset.” So far, Senate Democrats have been so immature that they refuse to take her calls or even meet with her.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has refused to even acknowledge Gabbard’s requests for a meeting. Another Democrat scheduled a meeting with her but then canceled it and hasn’t returned her calls.

Gabbard is a former member of the Hawaii National Guard. When she was in Congress and representing her state as a Democrat, she traveled to Syria on a fact-finding mission. She met with former Syrian President Bashar al Assad, who was recently deposed in a CIA coup.

When Gabbard got back from that mission, she sponsored a bill to prohibit Barack Obama’s administration from paying monthly salaries to ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria. That was actually happening. Democrats have been enraged with Tulsi Gabbard ever since then, for daring to buck the foreign policy wisdom of the uni-party in Washington, DC.

Yes, your tax dollars were paying monthly salaries to ISIS and Al Qaeda jihadis. Duh! You obviously don’t understand foreign policy like Lindsay Graham if you’re opposed to that.

Gabbard has had multiple meetings with Republican Senators ahead of her upcoming confirmation hearings. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) snidely commented to the media that she doesn’t think Gabbard can pass a background check. This was a subtle smear suggesting that Gabbard is a “Russian asset” once again.

Republicans point out that Gabbard was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserves. She already has top-secret clearance. Fortunately, Gabbard will only need a simple majority of 51 votes to pass Senate confirmation. It doesn’t look like she’ll have any support from the sore losers in her former political party.