Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), President Donald Trump’s pick to replace DNI Dan Coats, may have clinched the nod during an aggressive performance at special counsel Robert Mueller’s hearings last week.
Just another unimpressive party apparatchik elevated well beyond his abilities, simply because of his rabid but counterfactual support of Aged Orange. This is not how a functional democracy works.
Says tRump, I actually like rat infested cities that’s why I’m appointing a Rat for this new opening.
The confirmation hearing should be interesting.
Most rats deserting this sinking ship. Funny that they would be taking a new one on board.
Up with the chickens, I see.
His calling Dems ‘Socialist’ in his sign off of his first round did not harm his prospects either, I am sure.
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I’m off looking for a new place to live further west in this state. Did not work out like expected.
If he gets confirmed, I expect Whitaker-level scrutiny…and a bunch of Congressional testimony of underlings.
I remember when Republicans claimed to believe people should be hired and promoted based solely on merit, and race should have nothing to do with such decisions.
Be careful! West Virginia is out there. What went wrong with the search?
Not getting that close! This tiny conservative town that said I could do an Airbnb in the guest quarters over the detached garage then put up road blocks once I was here. Long, terrible story, but my house got a contract in one day and I’m moving on to a larger more progressive community. I miss the west!
I lived in Hay Market, VA for about 4 months one time. Great for seeing Civil War battle fields, but way to Conservative for me. That was nearly 40 years ago.
Sycophants are so, so unseemly.
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Ratcliffe? Wasn’t he the protagonist in “Buggering Heights”
Oh hell, why don’t we just get all this all over with and just hand the nuclear codes, our technology and our voter rolls to all our adversaries in a big box wrapped with a bright red tRumpian bow and get the whole fucking thing over with?
Our experiment in democracy is slowly coming to a close when or if this jackass gets approved. Guaranteed he doesn’t know the first thing about intelligence, spycraft or the kind that comes by way of natural selection. Radcliffe strikes me as an ambulance chaser. Beyond first impressions, he also is highly unqualified…so good to go as tRump’s next head of DNI I guess. The bar is so fucking low these days.
WHAT confirmation hearing… I’m thinking recess appointment.
How do you know it hasn’t already happened… 
