Only the best racists…
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) added: “I prefer votes in the Senate for positions of that nature.”
Strong words from a principled man!
OT ICYMI
Nobody reads the riot act more eloquently than Jon Stewart did today at a poorly attended (by legislators) funding hearing for 9/11 first responders medical care.
So…Spankee screwed over Senate Goopers to get his way. Good one. Wonder when they’ll get tired of this?
(I’d laugh but handing Cuccinelli the keys to any Trumpster car is enough to make me cry…)
At this point, it makes sense. If you are staffing an “American Gestapo,” you aren’t going to pick Jimmy Carter as the head.
Time for more clearly written laws. Morality of presidents is not reliable. Always prepare for the worst.
“Trump this week installed a hardliner with plenty of enemies in the U.S. Senate as a pinch hitter temporarily leading the government’s immigration and naturalization agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.”
What – the previous occupant wasn’t caging enough infants?
The previous KZ-Kommandant of the KinderStalags let the little bastards play soccer. A cardinal sin.
I guess Ted nugent has his hands full with NRA depositions these days so he was unavailable. Sad.
They broke the rules for this guy…he’s a complete piece of trash and should not have any position of power, and yet he’s been sought after for a long time by Trump. That tells you a lot about the administration, and it’s even more telling that the Senate Republicans will do nothing about this when even they know how bad Cuccineli is.
Whenever we finally get out of this hole it is going to take a long time to figure out all of the things that happened, and hopefully that story comes out and shows exactly how little Republicans respected the nation in their quest for power by putting Trump in power and not bothering to try to hold him or his administration accountable for any of their behavior…
It only encourages them to smile, so it’s verboten!
Norm. Breaker.
And this imbecile is not the one finding norm-breaking loopholes. The story of this “Administration” has always been that Trump is a corrupt gangster who is the head of a, well…Mob.
Mobsters live for loopholes.
So far, the Chief Mob Enabler, Mitch McConnell, is hiding within the Halls of the United States Senate. I would wager that it is still a minority of the population who knows who McConnell is and what he is doing.
The step past that will be the whys. That will be the grabber. To have gone this far, the personal motivations are not going to be pedestrian. When all is said an done, the Republicans will be societal pariahs. If we make it that far.
Unless a POC is a self-hating, self-deluding candidate for Stockholm Syndrome, he knows the exact reasons Trump and the GOP got any traction at all.
That was said in Hoover’s day … and we can agree that FDR did prove the point.
Then it was said again after Goldwater …
And again in the time of Nixon …
Then again in Reagan’s second term …
And again when Cheney was president …
The republican party is rife with rotten, dishonest, fraudulent, mean-spirited, racist, xenophobic, misogynist, greedy a-holes who take great joy in inflicting pain and misery on the poor, the sick, minorities, liberals and just about anyone other than their white friends. The GOP is the greatest threat to our national security and peace. They’re just horrible, horrible people.
FFS…this ahole doesn’t give a sweet sht about women, brown skinned people or immigrants. He’s an unapologetic white supremacist…and then there’s The Cooch…
I think we are in new territory here. Like everything now, our past expectations and understandings have to be re-calibrated. How many times in Trump’s behavior we didn’t all think “Yeah, but he won’t go there” and then did. Somewhere in the past I hit a terminal point in which I stopped doing that myself. Congress followed along to a point that the expectation they would only go so far and then apply the brakes has ceased to be a reality. Yet I still see people talking this way. We need to stop with that logic, it leaves us at a disadvantage. At the end of the day, the people the Republicans are representing are going to be seen as a danger to society. And their chosen leaders, ready to toss any sense of civic and moral accountability to the side, will likely reveal some of the darkest intentions as individuals and a group that we have faced in a long time. We are so far past Dick Cheney that he looks like a wanna be.
Together, you and I hope you’re right!