Too. Nuts. For. Rand. F-cking. Paul.
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And it all points to leaks, leaks, and more leaks as a result of constant infighting. I predict this will be the most accidentally transparent administration in history.
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FIFY
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Bolton says that the CIA/Russia hacking report is a âfalse flagâ engineered and politicized by Democrats. I think itâs safe to label the term âfalse flagâ as another exclusive example of Republican political correctness.
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As Charlie Pierce has pointed out, both Pauls can sound nice and reasonable for five minutes at a stretch. Be careful, though, once they get close to 4:59.
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The âworstâ possible choice, that is, for any day before the next one when Trump outdoes yesterdayâs worst with todayâs new worst. Lewis Black says there should be no color codes to signify terrorist danger levels, that we should use three three terms everyone understands. We should use these same terms to describe the worstitude of Trump nominees. The terms are âJESUS CHRIST,â âGODDAMMITâ and âFUCK MEâ
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Why does Rand Paul hate America?
You could have stopped after the first four words.
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âŚin the same sense that when babies shit themselves at holiday dinner, everyone notices.
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Rand Paul.
Blind pig.
Occasional acorn.
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Itâs that John Birch Society influence. You can only stuff so much crazy into an enclosed cranium before it explodes in crazy fury.
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I saw him in an airport a couple of years ago. He looks like a rumpled old fart. Apparently he thinks like one too. How bat shite crazy guys like this are in serious contention for any govt post is horrifying. Makes me want to go off my diet and drown my sorrows in fried chicken and taters.
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True, but I think thereâs going to be so much infighting in various departments because the people whoâve long worked in them, the ones who actually know what theyâre doing and care about the services they provide, will be going head to head with political appointees whose only concern is killing the very department they are there to lead. So, youâre going to have long time Department of Labor workers leaking info in order to counteract whatever insane plan political hacks are trying to implement. At the same time, the hacks will be leaking to the media in order to protect themselves and their interests. And if Pepe and their proposals are as unpopular as I hope and believe theyâll be, everyone will be leaking to cover their own asses.
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I believe the job being floated for Bolton is Deputy Secretary of State. On paper, it is the second job in the agency. But both operationally and politically, it is a job without any troops or any permanent responsibilities. In every agency - State included - the Deputy Secretary only has those responsibilities assigned to him by the Secretary. So if Bolton got that job, heâd either toe the line or spend his day on one long coffee break in the cafeteria.
They better not do their leaking from Labor Department phones or on their cell phones. Pick a friendâs household phone on a Sunday afternoon.
Bolton has no history of abiding by the rules.
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Precisely. And leaving Bolton to his own devices as Deputy Secretary is not a pleasant thought. Because he wonât spend it just drinking coffee. He will spend it carving out his own little fiefdom.
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The point still stands. TillerâŚor whoever gets nominated and approved, doesnât have input into two pretty key positionsâŚhis Deputy and the Ambassador to China. That IS going to be a problem.
Just remember, he has NDAs in place on his transition team, and the rumor floating around is he is trying to figure out how to enforce them on anybody working for his administration. The infighting it going to be off the scales, as will the corruption and scandalsâŚbut between attempted NDAs and Trump tweeting out that he is invading Mars and sending the press into a 3 day tizzy about that distractionâŚI am not so sure on hte transparency.