Being chairwoman of the House Anti-Woke Caucus provided Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman with plenty of material Saturday in an address to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.
Hageman, who was chosen in late December to head-up the caucus designed to “root out all far-left political programs from the federal government,” received a hero’s welcome by attendees as she launched into a 10-minute speech focused on “woke” ideologies she said was embraced by the Democratic Party.
Wildfires
Case in point, the fires in California — something she said can’t be “written off as an act of nature.”
“This catastrophe was years in the making, with resource management over-regulation and failed water policies all finding their roots in a fixation on climate change and global warming,” she said.
But it’s not just California, Hageman said. It’s the policies promoted by Democrats nationwide that have led to wildfires all over the West, including Wyoming.
“We have watched it play out year after year in Western states, as the so-called experts and environmentalists would rather our forests, our prairies and our homes burn to the ground than allow us to implement common sense and much needed treatment techniques to prevent these catastrophes from happening in the first place,” she said.
Close To Home
Hageman knows something about wildfires. Her family homestead was destroyed by fires last summer.
“It’s devastating,” Hageman told Cowboy State Daily last August.
And it’s something that could have been avoided, she said, but the “charlatans” as she called them in her speech, have fooled people into thinking they care about the environment.
“It is easy to make fun of people like Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Al Gore, John Kerry and others, but these people have caused, and will continue to cause, real human suffering unless we stop them,” she warned.
But thankfully, she said, Americans have “awakened from this woke nightmare” and President Trump is stopping them.
Support Of Musk
Acknowledging that Wyoming voters were tops in the nation in voting for Trump (nearly 72%), Hageman said her constituents were proud of the job the president was doing — especially in eliminating “government waste, fraud and abuse.”
“We are overjoyed that he has tasked Elon Musk and his team with overseeing DOGE using their skills to implement what may be the closest thing to zero based budgeting we will ever see in the federal government,” she said.
Making Fools Of Themselves
As Musk and his team continue to make headlines by unearthing controversial spending programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Hageman said Democrats were “making fools of themselves” by protesting the elimination of such initiatives.
"Even the bureaucrats who work there knew they had to hide their programs so that they could continue to fund such things as transgender comic books in Peru, so-called sex change operations in Guatemala and anti-Israeli rappers,” she said.
No Cheney
It wouldn’t be a true Hageman speech, however, if she didn’t remind the audience of who she is and where she's from.
She received her biggest ovation at the beginning when she mentioned the Cowboy State and what it had — and what it had not.
“I bring you greetings from the great state of Wyoming,” she began. “Home of an abundance of affordable and reliable energy, wildlife galore, wide open spaces, gorgeous rivers and streams, magnificent mountains, beautiful blue skies and not one Liz Cheney anywhere to be found.”
Jimmy Orr can be reached at jimmy@cowboystatedaily.com.
