June 18, 2025
No Kings, No Pins, No Clue: Alex Padilla’s Oversight Circus
By Charlton Allen
If the modern New Jersey Democrat party had a state motto, it might read: In Indictments We Trust.
More on that in a moment.But if Democrat party politicians had a catchphrase, a chief contender would surely be: “Oversight!” shouted not as a governing principle but as a tactical excuse for chaos.
You should expect to hear it anytime the clown car pulls up and the shenanigans start.
Late last week the lead player in the Oversight Olympics was none other than California’s own Senator Alex Padilla, a man committed to proving that Adam Schiff isn’t the only Democrat west of the Sierra Nevada Range who can weaponize pomposity and confuse it for principle.
Padilla, apparently mistaking Homeland Security for open mic night at the Resistance Café, stormed into a DHS press event in Los Angeles where Secretary Kristi Noem was delivering prepared remarks about the federal response to the anti-ICE riots that have engulfed parts of the city.
He was not on the schedule. He was not wearing his Senate pin. And, crucially, he was not invited.
Since it was a press event, it is worth emphasizing that Padilla is not a member of the press.
In other words, he was a mulish interloper, to use a polite term. There is, of course, a more modern term for this sort of behavior, but I am making every effort to remain civil. This is, after all, a family column.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/no_kings_no_pins_no_clue_alex_padilla_s_oversight_circus.html
