Of course, as always there is no reporting on the real reason Shulkin is being pushed out. That would require real reporting Let me give you a hint. The Koch brothers want to do away with the VA. Shulkin is too competent for their tastes. He has the ability to make sure the agency succeeds.
"Trump is reportedly waiting to push Shulkin out until he has decided on a replacement."
Bullshit.
"…the White House is currently looking at at least six candidates to head the VA, including Pete Hegseth, who works as a contributor on “Fox and Friends,” Trump’s favorite show."
OK. That makes a certain Trumpian “sense”. But, wouldn’t it make even more sense just to drop the pretence and move the White House to the Fox News studio in New York?
Pete Hegseth, who works as a contributor on “Fox and Friends,” Trump’s favorite show.
When satire becomes reality. I was thinking about joking about the replacement being a FOX contributor. Then I read that line…
I’m so pissed at Shulkin for giving the Orange Monster a reason to fire him. He was a firewall against the conflagration in at least one department, and he self-immolated.
I agree. This was an own goal.
Just because all the other kids are cheating doesn’t mean you’ve gotta start too. Really, the descent to grade school playground rules is nearly complete.
And yet Zinke, Carson and Pruitt get a full pass on their shit. Seems like selective outrage for this group of appointed thieves, each of whom has lived high off the hog on taxpayer money since coming into the federal government.
I think they’re in the cross-hairs this week as well.
The fact that Shulkin “an Obama-era holdover” means he’s even slightly competent. He should have been really clear on the fact that Rump would get rid of him somehow; he just handed the regime a reason.
Now, Rump not only gets a true believing feral trumper in the VA, he gets that much closer to privatizing the department completely. Good work, Shulkin: you played yourself.
Good. But I say that with some trepidation since we all know, tRump only knows how to replace each of those idiots with someone eminently worse.
Trump should just get it over with and move the Oval Office to Fox News headquarters, appointing their entire staff as his new administration.
Not to mention that the Orange Monster apparently wants to promote Pruitt’s to AG. If Republicans gain seats in the Senate, they’ll be emboldened to confirm Pruitt as AG. God help us.
“Eminently worse” hardly captures it…
They could build an oval office set that would be much better than the old one he has to put up with now.
Because they were appointed specifically to destroy the agencies they now head.
I think I meant imminently. Not sure. Need more coffee.
Yeah. Little did we realize that his (in)famous descent down the escalator in Trump Tower was going to be a harbinger of the future. Everything he touches is steadily going downhill…
If you believe the rumors swirling around now, I think everything is going to continue to get eminently worse imminently…
Yep and I’ll take one sugar and cream with that, and make that two shots of expresso to go.
And the first thing in the announcement, and in Dear Leader’s tweet, will be that Shulkin was an Obama’s appointee and it’s all Obama’s fault that Shulkin took advantage of the non-existent ethics of the Trump administration.