Liar.
This is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Betsy DeVos is committed to the destruction of public education in the US. She is unsuited to be the Sec. of Education. Quit pussyfooting around and call it like it is, Dems.
Another Trump liar.
Borrowed Conway’s broom stick.
Am not watching, but she is apparently making an ass of herself in the hearing.
Yeah, the conflicts of interest are the least of the problems with this perfectly awful nominee - a committed anti-public-education hack who has no business heading this department (or any department, for that matter).
It’s a gift.
Conflicted or not, she has no place in government and particularly not in public education, which she hates.
Here’s a little appetizer for your dinner.
What Betsy’s security detail censored Sen. Murray, TV cameras and the assembled press from reporting:
Devos: “Listen here you librul bich. I told you there would be no conflicts. President Trump has explained to the whole world there are no conflicts. Do we have to send my people to your kids’ schools to make my point perfectly clear?”
With all due respect, Senator, it doesn’t surprise me…
Thanks Patty…
But if you want to know who someone IS …
Just take a look down the road of what they’ve DONE ! —
1991: Clarence Thomas never thought about Roe v. Wade while in law school
Senator Patrick Leahy peppered Thomas with questions about whether he had ever discussed or debated Roe v. Wade when he was at Yale Law School, the judge denied it. He cast himself as a sort of social recluse and a grind who had little time beyond studying and working to engage in such musings: “My schedule was that I went to classes and generally went to work and went home.” Leahy registered incredulity: “I’m sure you are not suggesting that there wasn’t any discussion at any time of Roe v. Wade?” Thomas replied, “Senator, I cannot remember personally engaging in those discussions.” Leahy: “Well, was it properly decided or not?” Thomas: “I have not made a decision one way or the other with respect to that important decision.”
Much later, Leahy said Thomas’s responses that he had never even thought about Roe v. Wade as a law student were so preposterous that they cost him the senator’s vote."
Source: A Life of Trial & Redemption, by Jules Witcover, p.259-260 , Oct 5, 2010
“Senator, first of all, let me be very clear about any conflicts. Where conflicts are identified [by watchdogs], they will be resolved [after we fight like crazy to keep those investments],” DeVos said.
“Anything that is deemed to be a conflict [after said fight] will not be a part of our investing [but other family hidden trusts will invest up and we will profit big time on the policies I have put in place, once I leave office],” DeVos said.
“Would you commit to coming back before this committee once we have that from the OGE so we can ask additional questions?”
“I commit to making sure we have an ethics agreement resolved and reached [but I’ll be damned if I’m coming back before this committee or you, bitch],” DeVos said.
Trump’s whole world in a huge dysfunctional family of nasty rich crazy people.
Excerpt:
Prince’s sister, Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s nominee for education secretary and she has all but vowed to embark on a crusade to push a privatization and religious agenda in education that mirrors her brother’s in military and CIA affairs. Prince has long been a contributor to the campaign of fellow Christian warrior Mike Pence, and he contributed $100,000 to the pro-Trump Super PAC Make America Number 1. Prince’s mother, Elsa, pitched in another $50,000. That organization, run by Rebekah Mercer, daughter of billionaire hedge funder Robert Mercer, was one of the strongest bankrollers of Trump’s campaign.
Well. Thomas basically kept saying “I’m an idiot” and got confirmed because enough Senators were also idiots.
OT: Is it me or does TPM website go funky? I seem to keep getting errors since early afternoon.
Following up. Here’s the scene in question (vid clip embedded). God, she’s a moron. I’m speechless.
It’s not you… we’ve got a bug –
I’ve never heard of a better application of the frog/scorpion story ----