republicans have no shame

[DCHawk1]

So...you and Bill Kristol are gonna calm down now?

[Shirley]

[Shirley]

The Cain and Moore nominations are two more tests for Republicans to fail

...The Fed’s structure largely insulates it from political pressure, but structure can do only so much. Today’s controversy concerns Trump’s planned nominees to fill the two vacant seats on the Fed’s seven-member board of governors, Herman Cain and Stephen Moore. Whether their untidy sex lives are disqualifying, a sufficient disqualification is that both are notably partisan Trump acolytes and neither has satisfactory credentials or experience.

The GOP’s descent into vaudeville began with the 2008 vice presidential nomination of Sarah Palin, it accelerated in 2011 when Cain was taken seriously as a presidential candidate, and it reached warp speed with the party’s capture by the man who takes Cain seriously as a maker of monetary policy. Cain’s certitude about his economic nostrums is inversely proportional to the study he has invested in the subject, which probably has involved less effort than he recently invested in organizing a PAC to promote Trump’s reelection. Cain’s and his nominator’s boundless confidence in their economic beliefs demonstrates the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It is named for two Cornell psychologists who in 1999 described the bias by which the lower a person’s intellectual ability, the more the person tends to overestimate it.

[...]

[Geezer]

The. Best. People.

[Shirley]

White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington Post.

Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump’s border wall.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco was among those the White House wanted to target, according to DHS officials. The administration also considered releasing detainees in other Democratic strongholds.

...Pelosi’s office blasted the plan.

“The extent of this administration’s cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated,” said Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne. “Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable.”

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[Shirley]

Stephen Moore. Herman Cain. et al., so, why not?

Trump says he mulled nominating daughter Ivanka for World Bank president

04/12/2019 08:57 AM

[seahawk]

Okay, Feral, reading that is a few minutes that I'll never get back. Yuck.

However, I don't think his musing was in the same vein as the Stephen Moore/Herman Cain nominations, more about his really sick obsession with this daughter.

[Shirley]

Because

"Drain the Swamp!"

[Deleted User 89]

fortunately, the DOE is in good hands lol

[Shirley]

Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'

Stephen Moore, who President Donald Trump announced last month as his nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, has a history of advocating self-described "radical" views on the economy and government.

In speeches and radio interviews reviewed by CNN's KFile, Moore advocated for eliminating the corporate and federal income taxes entirely, calling the 16th Amendment that created the income tax the "most evil" law passed in the 20th century.

Moore's economic worldview envisions a slimmed down government and a rolled back social safety net. He has called for eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy and Commerce, along with the IRS and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. He has questioned the need for both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Education. He has said there's no need for a federal minimum wage, called for privatizing the "Ponzi scheme" of Social Security and said those on government assistance lost their dignity and meaning.

In other interviews and appearances, Moore repeatedly said he believed capitalism was more important than democracy.

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[DCHawk1]

Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'

Stephen Moore, who President Donald Trump announced last month as his nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, has a history of advocating self-described "radical" views on the economy and government.

In speeches and radio interviews reviewed by CNN's KFile, Moore advocated for eliminating the corporate and federal income taxes entirely, calling the 16th Amendment that created the income tax the "most evil" law passed in the 20th century.

Moore's economic worldview envisions a slimmed down government and a rolled back social safety net. He has called for eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy and Commerce, along with the IRS and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. He has questioned the need for both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Education. He has said there's no need for a federal minimum wage, called for privatizing the "Ponzi scheme" of Social Security and said those on government assistance lost their dignity and meaning.

In other interviews and appearances, Moore repeatedly said he believed capitalism was more important than democracy.

[...]

lulz...

He's right about a LOT of that, but especially the democracy part.

Which is why we don't live in a democracy.

Better headline: Steve Moore agrees with James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay!

[Shirley]

Trump's Fed pick Stephen Moore is a self-described 'radical' who said he's not a 'big believer in democracy'

Stephen Moore, who President Donald Trump announced last month as his nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, has a history of advocating self-described "radical" views on the economy and government.

In speeches and radio interviews reviewed by CNN's KFile, Moore advocated for eliminating the corporate and federal income taxes entirely, calling the 16th Amendment that created the income tax the "most evil" law passed in the 20th century.

Moore's economic worldview envisions a slimmed down government and a rolled back social safety net. He has called for eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy and Commerce, along with the IRS and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. He has questioned the need for both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Education. He has said there's no need for a federal minimum wage, called for privatizing the "Ponzi scheme" of Social Security and said those on government assistance lost their dignity and meaning.

In other interviews and appearances, Moore repeatedly said he believed capitalism was more important than democracy.

[...]

lulz...

He's right about a LOT of that, but especially the democracy part.

Which is why we don't live in a democracy.

Better headline: Steve Moore agrees with James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay!

If history is any indication, give your "boy" Stephen Moore a few weeks, and he'll change his principled "conservative" position, again.

[Shirley]

Confirmed four days ago.

#onlythebest



The Interior Department’s internal watchdog has opened an investigation into ethics complaints against the agency’s newly installed secretary, David Bernhardt.

Mr. Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the oil and agribusiness industries, was confirmed by the Senate last week to head the agency, which oversees the nation’s 500 million acres of public land and vast coastal waters. He has played a central role in writing policies designed to advance President Trump’s policy of “energy dominance” and expanding fossil fuel exploration. He has been dogged by allegations of ethics violations since joining the Trump administration as the Interior Department’s deputy secretary in 2017.

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[Shirley]

Sometimes you can't fucking believe how low Trump would like to take us, with republicans enabling him all the way.

[Shirley]

In any other administration the Minister of Propaganda, I mean, "Press Secretary", would resign in shame or be fired.

[DCHawk1]

You should impeach her.

And everyone else.

[Shirley]

[DCHawk1]

[Shirley]

[DCHawk1]

Reminder: Obama knew about Russian attempts to interfere in our elections as early as 2014 and did No-thing whatsoever about it!