VP Vance slams McConnell’s act of ‘political pettiness’

Vice President JD Vance lit up Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for voting against Elbridge Colby for undersecretary of policy at the Pentagon.

Not only did McConnell not vote for Colby, but he dropped a venomous statement that tore into the now-confirmed Pentagon policy chief. The letter claims Colby’s “long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America,” making him a bad choice for the role.

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Scathing statement from Mitch McConell after he votes against Elbridge Colby, who was just confirmed by the Senate for a top Pentagon post.

“Make no mistake: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline.” pic.twitter.com/tckBmtgAKC

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 8, 2025

“Preparing to deter or defeat an historic alignment of adversaries must be the top priority for the United States and the West. But the more we indulge the fiction that these threats are not linked, and the longer we delay overdue investments in the national defense, the more difficult the task of restoring our credibility, our military capability, and our industrial capacity will become,” the statement reads.

“Elbridge Colby’s long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy. The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy,” the scathing letter continues. “Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit.”

“Mr. Colby’s confirmation leaves open the door for the less-polished standard-bearers of restraint and retrenchment at the Pentagon to do irreparable damage to the system of alliances and partnerships which serve as force multipliers to U.S. leadership,” McConnell claimed. “It encourages isolationist perversions of peace through strength to continue apace at the highest levels of Administration policymaking.”

“As I have expressed repeatedly, I remain committed to supporting national security nominees whose records and views make them assets, not liabilities, in the restoration of U.S. hard power. As he gets to work, Mr. Colby will need to work swiftly to advance policy that conforms to the President’s recognition of U.S. interests from Europe to the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. I hope he will come to appreciate the essential role our allies play in advancing our collective interests, the urgent need for enduring investments in our national defense, and the linked and simultaneous challenges we face,” the statement concludes. “Make no mistake: America will not be made great against by those who are content to manage our decline.”

The vice president accused McConnell of engaging in “political pettiness” with his vote against Colby.

Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/Qg6eAOqW4J

— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 8, 2025

“Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance wrote in an X post.

X users reacted to the political jabs:

The biggest threat to this administration are the RINOs in DC.

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) April 8, 2025

Mitch has been there for what, 40 years? He’s become guided by the principle of power – nothing else.

Hard pressed to see how anyone who stays in DC for more than a few terms doesn’t start sliding into Uniparty membership.

Term limits have to be on the table.

— TheFlyingTomahawk (@TheFlyingTHawk) April 8, 2025

Mitch McConnell needs to retire.

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 8, 2025

Mitch McConnell should be voted out of Congress

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) April 8, 2025

We need term limits. Congress shouldn’t be a retirement community.

— Mrs. H (@KimHarshberger) April 9, 2025

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