Denial won’t be an option. And forget about “bringing the country back together” rationalizations. The main players will need to be investigated and prosecuted by the FBI and the DoJ respectively albeit without political direction from above. The only thing that’ll ever restore a sense of normality to post-Trump America is an exhaustive and public reckoning with his crimes.
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doug834 I prefer Russia’s Agent Orange as the most accurate ‘nickname’ for the current stain on the country and White House.
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nymund Yes, we need something like the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It should have two highly respected leaders, and subpoena power.
It should require all DOJ, DHS folks to submit any wrong doing they have witnessed, OR participated in. Cross reference all responses and provide some leniency (not let off the hook by any means - think of John Dean who found a conscience as Nixon’s WH lawyer: he is considered a hero for what he did, but also did prison time.) to those who fess up, and no quarter to those that don’t.
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Trump formally nominated Wolf to be the Senate-confirmed DHS secretary late Thursday.
His nomination will be approved rubber-stamped by the Senate ASAP.
Don’t be so sure.
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Maybe not so needlessly? Sounds like the complexity may have helped save our asses in several cases.
It is important to protect this country from illegals.
… Not the immigrants, but the administration officials!
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Just because the broken clock happened to be right doesn’t mean you should keep it.
Less metaphorically, complexity in government obscures responsibility and favors those who can hire lawyers to understand the rules and lobbyists to tweak them.
Even more concretely, the complexity of rule making guarantees years of challenges to any adminstrative action. In many cases, the point isn’t too win the challenge, it is too stall until the next election.
As with everything, this is more of a problem for the party that has a positive agenda which depends on government being able to do things.
Some complexity is unavoidable. I’m just saying that Einstein was right - things should be as simple as possible - but no simpler
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Shorter: it’s full of loopholes.
Governments are known by the company they don’t keep.
I don’t think his odds of getting out of the committee are that good. And with the Murphy business getting oxygen, the proceedings could prove exceptionally embarrassing to Hair Furor.
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Basically how it happened. In this case, a two-step. Made me think of how people launder money… Nielsen resigned, boosted someone that might not have been confirmed, who then resigned, boosting someone that absolutely wouldn’t have been confirmed then. Can’t speak to now, and the “all-in” behavior of GOP Senators. I’ve come to believe that Fat Nixon would have to shoot a Senator in the face, and threaten the rest, to get them to shift ‘left’ even a smidge. They are now Trump’s Army, win or lose.
The bigger concern to me is that this is DHS. Of all the agencies to “take complete control of” that’s among the worst. You know, “Homeland Security”, the agency in charge of overseeing our intelligence agencies with regard to the ONE major vulnerability Trump has: Russia.
With Wolf in place, not only can Trump get away with using our military (or any random Federal agency that happens to have a law enforcement arm) to police citizens, but also to sweep any Russian election interference under the rug. With Low Barr on one side, and Wolf/Cuccinelli on the other, he has a lot of leverage hiding the endless stream of malfeasance emanating from this White House.
I am SO in agreement with Josh Marshall the we need an audit of the executive branch post-Trump. We need to know what all has in fact transpired during his presidency. From Scott Pruitt on down…
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And, get rid of this “department of homeland security,” as soon as possible.
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Mitch only takes votes he knows he’ll win.
Okay except for the pathetic stunt last week.
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Totally agree! Just the naming of it alone was deeply disturbing for me. Too close to “Fatherland” for comfort… nudging us ever closer to a brand of nationalism that I don’t think we actually want to identify with. Can’t speak for the MAGA crowd though… they seem to be embracing it wholeheartedly.
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As much as I agree that should happen, I’ll eat my hat when it does. I promise.
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Now, how about the US postal master? What are his qualifications? And why is he bringing on some of his other employees from his other businesses what qualifies him to do that isn’t there a Union that protects the US Postal Service workers from having people brought in off the street to do a job as you’re qualified to do.
You know the upcoming election will be driven by hate for Donald Trump and how livid and mad we are . There is great energy behind our pores and all stems from eight for you Donald Trump and the disgust of hell and what you’ve done to our country. You will be held accountable and you can take that political capital and deposit it in your over drawn accounts pay your overdraft with it Donald because you’re broke it comes to credibility and political capital you bankrupted yourself Trader. You will be held accountable one way or another by the time with you suing you you won’t have a window or rather you won’t have a pot to take a whiz in or a window to throw it out of your bag God I hate you.
“A Judge Agreed That Chad Wolf Is Likely Serving Illegally At DHS. What Happens Next?”
Law Shmaw says President Dump.
That’s what happens.
And why Steve Bannon et al are so opposed to the “administrative state”. All these rules and guardrails are an outrage!