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BamaD -> RE: More republican hypocrisy (1/10/2017 3:53:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
From the senate 'leaders' [sic]
Senator Mitch McConnell once said his party’s most important task was to deny Obama a second term. In February 2009, he wrote a letter to Senator Harry Reid, then the majority leader, saying there could be no action on Obama’s nominees pending a long list of demands, including completion of reviews by the Office of Government Ethics. McConnell only escalated when Republicans took control of the Senate in 2014 and by last year he was refusing even to consider any Supreme Court nomination Obama might make.
.....it’s certainly looking as if McConnell’s Republican Senate majority will do a complete about-face and rush through Trump’s appointments without the process on which senators used to insist.
Unfortunately, not all of these candidates have been through the customary vetting process. Last week, the Office of Government Ethics informed congressional Democrats that it had not yet had time to screen all of the Trump appointees, which created “potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues.” Democrats want to delay some hearings until the candidates can be vetted.
McConnell’s response to Democrats’ concerns has been typically cynical and hypocritical.
This year, he’s telling Democrats to “grow up.” “All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration at having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate,” he said on Sunday.
Ethics review is hardly a “little procedural complaint,” especially since the Trump camp reportedly did far less than previous presidential transition teams to vet candidates before nominating them.
Of course, since Trump won’t clear up the endless conflicts of interest involving his business interests and those of his children and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whom he is appointing to a senior White House role, why should we expect him to be concerned about his appointees’ conflicts?
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I guess the American people just don't need to know about such things as congressional and executive ethics.
Then there is this if you can even imagine:
So what about the “bully pulpit” that the presidency is going to give Trump once he takes office? The problem is that we are not supposed to take anything that Trump says seriously.
The problem, according to Trump’s chief propagandist, Kellyanne Conway, is that people are actually paying attention to what Trump says.
Imagine that, the American people actually paying attention to what the P-elect actually says. What dummies. He is after all...a republican.
“You always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth,” Conway sneered. Instead, she said, we should all “look at what’s in his heart.”
Oh gee, imagine that, we are not supposed to 'go by what comes out of his mouth ?' Look at what's in his heart ?
But that's the problem.
The sad truth is, we’re never going to know. We will never be able to trust what Trump tells us about his principles, his policies and his intentions as president, if he bothers to tell us anything at all. Mostly, we’re all just supposed to read his mind.
So Republicans are hypocrites because they want to play by the rules the Democrats have been playing under but the Democrats are pure as the driven snow for saying that only they can play by those rules.
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