At first, I thought the leak was about bombing “Hootie and the Blowfish.”

You know, the semi-rock band of the eighties that is still touring.

Hearing snippets of the news, I thought that, being old now, the five rockers had been bombed while performing, or they were just plain bombed.

But then I realized it was the Houthis in Yemen that President Donald Trump was bombing and not the ageing musicians, although Trump could have revived the career of “Hootie and the Blowfish” the way he brought back the careers of “The Village People.”

Instead, Trump decided to do to the Houthis what he did to ISIS during his first term as president. And that was to wipe the Iran-sponsored radical Islamist terrorist group off the face of the map. “And it did not take that long,” Trump said.

He is doing the same to the Houthis, as he promised he would in his campaign, to stop them from firing on U.S. ships and international vessels seeking to enter the Suez Canal, as well as firing missiles into Israel. And it won’t take that long either.

And while the ongoing airstrikes have wrecked the Houthis by taking out vital missile-launching facilities with no U.S. casualties, the Democrats attacked Trump and his defense and intelligence team for leaks over the attack plan.

The leak came about when Democrat journalist/propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine was inadvertently included in an unsecure chat app in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out plans for striking the Houthis.

Trump called the inclusion of the reporter a mistake, and the Democrat attacks “a witch hunt.” Hegseth downplayed the event, and Michael Waltz, the national security advisor, took full responsibility for the screwup, promising it would not happen again.

The Democrats, who have nothing going for them, nevertheless went bonkers, acting as though the leak was equivalent to World War II Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower leaking plans for the Normandy invasion to the Germans.

They demanded a full investigation and Hegseth’s resignation, even though the strikes under his leadership were a total success.

These are the same blowhard Democrats who had nothing to say when fellow woke blowhard Gen. Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Trump’s first term, told the Communist Chinese that he would tip them off if Trump planned to attack them.

Trump as president is the commander in chief, but Milley made his sneaky calls to the Chinese without Trump’s knowledge or approval.

These are the same Democrats who covered up what they knew about President Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline even as the public witnessed Biden falling down, bumping into doors, and barely making sense when he spoke. “He’s sharp as a tack,” they said before they threw him under the bus.

The Democrat attacks on Trump and his cabinet have, if possible, reached a new low over the Houthi affair. Nowhere will you find a Democrat in Congress say anything positive about destroying the Houthis and opening up the sea lanes.

Instead, they called Hegseth a drunk.

Leading that charge was shameless and envious Rep. Seth Moulton of Salem, who at a press conference asked if Hegseth “was just incompetent or whether he was drunk.”

This is the same Moulton, a John Kerry wannabe (“I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”) who came out against having men play in women’s sports (“I have two little girls.”) and then voted to allow them.

Moulton’s problem is that he has failed to advance his political career and resents a fellow Iraq combat veteran of his age group obtaining a position that is unattainable to him.

Moulton ran for president in 2019 before dropping out. He twice in 2016 and 2018 failed to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi from her leadership position to make room for younger members like himself.

However, when Pelosi, the first woman Speaker, stepped down in 2022, Moulton praised her for “breaking one of the toughest ceilings in the country.”

It is too bad Moulton can’t break through like Hegseth.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen March 19. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)