Ignore the Yahoos.

* Now retired, the former chair of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, pulled no punches, targeting the media and extremist lawmakers when discussing the future of defense funding and support for Ukraine.

People need to step back from the bad news "buzzing in our pockets," and see that there will be continuity, he said at an International Stability Operations Association event recently. He spoke the day after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. --a vocal critic of U.S. support for Ukraine--led a press conference and called for an audit of all military support provided to Ukraine.

"You had four yahoos do a press conference yesterday, who were basically the most isolated, least influential people in in the House Republican conference, and yet the press was just all over them," Thornberry said.

"I would say I'm reasonably optimistic that we will be stable when it comes to defense and foreign policy with...