Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee beginning at 10 a.m. ET Monday. Expect pointed questions from Democrats about Postal Service policies that have come to light in recent months, and overwhelming evidence of a mail slowdown as an election looms in which many voters will cast ballots by mail.
DeJoy was very much ill-at-ease last week. Which he will look back upon as a picnic compared to what’s coming for him today.
I sure halfway through he’ll suddenly remember an urgent appointment and have to cut it short.
I hope that after the hearing a House member brings up an intention to introduce a motion to impeach Dejoy when the House returns from recess.
Sheesh. Blinky McBlinksteen. Before a single answer!
In the Senate hearing, he compared the Post Office to a private business rather than a government service. It was not set up to be profitable. In his mind I wonder if other taxpayer supported entities need to be profitable, such as the military, Medicare, police and fire departments, National Parks, city, county, and state parks, etc. It boggles the mind when business types with no real experience in public service are appointed and fail to understand that government is not in the business of making money.
Admits that post office makes money on amazon shipments. Repugs argue against themselves.
I had countered someone with the nonsense about the post office needing to be ‘profitable’ with what about the military?
His response: what service do they provide?
I blocked him before I could respond that they protect his sorry a$$ from all threats, foreign and domestic, but figured I wouldn’t waste my time.
And yet he could produce no documentation which set out the plans and methodology for implementation or the goals anticipated to be achieved. No successful private business would proceed with such profound changes to an organization without preparing and documenting a detailed set of plans for making such changes and establishing goals by which the efficacy of such plans might be judged.
He is a fraud as is this maladministration’s plot to destroy the Post Office.
I will say that, in contrast to the Senate hearing, the TPM blog appears to be useless to tell what’s going on.
There hasn’t been a post since the gavel dropped at 7 after the hour.
We certainly see the new GOP platform in action here. You can practically see the bronzer that’s rubbed off on their cheeks.
In Edwardian England they tried private fire departments. If you subscribed to a department’s service the FD would put a plate on your building. If it caught fire, all the local departments would send somebody to see whose department had been paid to put out the fire. That department would show up and put out the fire. If there was no plate on the building they would just let it burn down. Obviously that little exercise in the free market didn’t work. The public outcry for a professional fire service led to modern fire departments.
who’s the ass-licker?
I am not sure Dejoy was hired to suppress voting. More likely he was hired to ruin the post office which has been one of Donnie’s goals for a while.
Maybe he should be bound with baling wire?
I’ve always thought the PO provided a service that was necessary for the functioning of our nation. When did it start to be measured by whether it was profitable? Does it need to turn a profit, or even break even? Does HHS turn a profit? Does the Department of Education make money? Is the U.S. Army upbraided for not turning a profit? Since when are the necessary functions of government required to make money?
Come on! It’s right there in Two Corinthians! “I profit, therefore I am.”
Fat Donnie needs his cut.
