With the issue of migrant children separated from their families dominating headlines, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was so determined to get a better handle on the 12,000 migrant children under his department’s care that he was up until 1 a.m. one night last week personally poring through cases in the operations center of the bunker-like HHS building at the foot of Capitol Hill.
I see now who the real victim is. Not parents who have had children taken from them, not frightened five year olds at the mercy of ill-trained when not actively evil personnel, not asylum seekers without legal representation in court hearings to determine their future.
No, it’s poor little Alex Azar, who has to stay up late, studying for the Nazi exams.
Thanks, AP.
Such a well-oiled, smooth-running machine…
So much WINNING!!!
A Cabinet member’s standing with Trump — who’s up, who’s down; who’s relevant, who’s not —is closely tied to how that person or their issue is playing in the press, especially on cable TV.
Am I reading the news or the latest review of an MTV Jersey Shore reboot?
We spend a lot of time rightly mocking the fascist running our country, but the following point is clearly true and we ignore it at our own peril:
Trump, like many modern presidents, has consolidated power in the West Wing
TL:DR Actually, the AP could’ve distilled this entire article down to “Rump’s dignity wraiths.”
Yes. They failed to mention how he remained aloof as the crisis broke, even attending his high school reunion as the outcry grew. So, after being called on his apparent lack of concern over what was happening in his agency, he stayed up late one night to show he was really working hard. It’s not convincing.
There, they dive into Bible study. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Carson are among the regular attendees, and at times they are joined by Vice President Mike Pence and others.
What text? What text? How about Matthew 25:35-40 (“I was hungry and you fed me”)? Or Matthew 21:13 (“You have turned it [the temple] into a den of thieves.”)? Or John 21: 17 (“Feed my sheep.”)? Or…
Seriously, what text do they study that tells them that they are doing the Lord’s work?
I’m thinking it’s probably this one about serving in Don’s cabinet:
“If your brother with you becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, you are not to make him serve like a bond slave. Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee."
Leviticus 25:39-42
Probably this bit from Revelations
“And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.”
I think they read that passage about the devil taking jesus up on a mountaintop and offering him dominion over the earth, and all agree that the bearded jewish guy made the wrong decision.
Maybe they take after the boss and just kinda bullshit about what they think might be in there, or what they saw on TeeVee about what was in there. “Some people are saying The Bible says…”
The whole lot of them deserves everything they get. Trump could start belting them and it would be okay by me.
Can we please just stop referring to Trump as “mercurial?” The proper adjectives would be erratic, inconsistent, irrational, or – best of all – ADD-addled.
He’s dense, toxic and skittish, but yeah, that’s not what the adjective is generally used for.
The locusts and scorpions of the earth soundly reject that degrading comparison…
More fun rulings from the Wisconsin GOPreme Court…
Wisconsin court says Marquette shouldn’t have fired conservative professor over flap about gay marriage discussion
I apologize to the locusts and scorpions of the earth for this unfortunate characterization. My account was hacked, or possibly an intern did it.
Lay off the Ambien, dude…