March 17, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Oh my. Trump is so dumb that you can pull a slow one on him.
Lookie right here.
– U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) today extended an offer of employment to Andrew McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the FBI, so that he can reach the needed length of service after President Trump fired him just days before he was set to retire.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
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That’s a rather clever idea. I didn’t realize that his retirement vesting hours could be transferred like that. But I guess it is all GSA managed benefits, right?
And I guess he would only have to be on the payroll for one or two days.
If this actually comes off I can only imagine this would make DJT crap in his pants.
1Hip, hip, hooray! Several congressmen have extended invitations to McCabe. From reading today, a lawyer who specializes in federal pensions said that should work.
May the karma Trump earns be returned ten-fold.
2Many thanks to all the Congresspersons who offered McCabe a job so that he gets his pension. What Trump/Sessions did was beyond malicious. I have no idea what McCabe did to warrant the possibility that he should be fired, but firing a man after 21 years of notable service, two days before his pension is vested–especially since Trump has been insisting that should happen for months now–is just vile.
3I don’t know what percentage of American workers even get a pension now– we don’t– but I’d really like all of them, with or without, to be reminded, shortly before election day, of this vile timing by the champion of the American worker.
4God I hope this works.
5It’s not just that they’ve acted so viciously toward McCabe. That was bad enough. But they did it mainly as a preemptive method of discrediting him. When his notes become public, they’ll be painted as just the kind of sour grapes you’d expect from a vindictive “bad actor.”
But the destruction of livelihood is now becoming an OPENLY accepted method of dealing with anyone who isn’t loyal to the dear leader.
So welcome to the new America. Anyone who Donnie feels is a threat can be totally destroyed. Just business. As an afterthought.
The sadism is just a sweet little benefit.
And every day, hour, and minute that Donald F**king Trump is our president, normalizes this abhorrent new reality.
What I found particularly galling was the reason Sessions gave for firing McCabe was an allegation that McCabe lied under oath. This from a scumbag who lied multiple times under oath during his confirmation hearing, and still got confirmed.
6Not that the Republican majority in the Senate will do anything about this, but I would note that lying under oath could be construed as an impeachable offense, the punishment for which is a ban on any future employment in the government and … loss of any pension he would be entitled to absent the impeachment and conviction. Poetic justice.
It should be noted that it is the Democrats who are offering McCabe a new job so he can keep his pension! It sure as hell hasn’t been any Republican stepping up, offering him anything other then more knives in his back!
7Once again the Dems clean up after the Repukes!!
Kudos to Rep. Pocan (D, WI), a real American.
8What trump did was really mean spirited, nice that other Americans recognize this is and step up to prove we are not all like trump. Well done to all who offered McCabe a job, I hope he accepts the offer. By the way I know a lot of police and fire departments accept military time in the length of service for pensions.
9I am not an attorney, …
I have witnessed Texas government organizations terminate an employee’s employment a few days before they would have vested in the retirement system, in order to prevent that vesting. I have heard but not witnessed Texas government organizations terminate an employee’s retirement a few days before they would have retired. In each event, the law suit that followed was won by the former employee. In both cases, the court ordered the employer to proceed as if the employee had completed employment to their retirement date, including paying the employee as though s/he had worked, paying the retirement system matching funds and interest on both the employee deposit and the entity match. For these employees who made mid $40k income this amounted to mere thousands of dollars. If McCabe’s inevitable law suit is equally successful and IMHO it most likely will be, the American Taxpayer will be stuck for a pretty penny considering that supposedly a $500k difference exists in McCabe’s then and now retirement benefits.
10@Rhea: The US government pays less than private industry for comparable jobs, but they do have better retirement benefits. Those benefits–including the pension–are a major reason that civil servants are willing to work for less salary than their private-industry counterparts. I have no idea what McCabe did or did not do, but depriving him of his pension two days before his retirement is a really rotten thing to do. I hope we can do the same for Donnie, eventually.
11Rhea, I was a bit embarrassed by my (nowadays) generous pension after 36 years a professor. But as my tax guy pointed out, everyone deserves a pension. That I’ve a strong union is nothing to feel bad about.
12It was said by someone, maybe Trump or Sessions, that the firing was for “lack of candor”. Bullscat, if anything it’s because of “too much candor”.
13After all those years of Trump barking “You’re Fired!” into the TV cameras, he never figured out people get jobs elsewhere?
14Thank Heaven for Unions. I still pay Union dues although retired.
Several Congressmen have now offered McCade a position. And the Senate is holding hearings. I hope they destroy the Lying, laughing little Keebler Elf!
15Doesn’t 45 realize that *not* ticking McCabe off and letting him sidle off into the sunset would be a *much* better idea? If the rumblings of McCabe’s misdeeds(?) are accurate, the judicial system would allow for his revenge, albeit slowly.
16Just another example of how poor a businessman 45 is. Let the system work *for* you and the heat generated won’t burn *you*…
Heaven’s highest blessings on these Congress people who extended the helping hand to McCabe. I hope he accepts at least one of such offers. He is now free to write a book, get himself remade into a TV personality, or even run for office!
17Over at my place we refer to Sessions as Three-fifths of a Man. Because 1. We like the historical/Constitutional resonance of the thing. and 2. Just look at him.
18What do Marla Maples and McCabe have in common? Trump filed divorce papers just in time to keep his antenupt from expiring in his second marriage. The President is one cheap hustle after the next.
19I live in Mark’s district, but somehow I missed this. It does not surprise me, though.
Pocan and Sen. Tammy Baldwin represent the people of Wisconsin way better than Gov. Shit Talker or Lyin’ Paul Ryan (R-Galt’s Gulch).
It’s a goobernatorial year in Dairyland. I think I know how many Russians felt during the runup to Putin’s “reelection.” If there are any credible progressives running for governor, they haven’t shown up in the news yet. Walker, otoh, has been campaigning at 6 and 10 every night for months already. For free.
20This is what happens when you don’t do staff work before acting. Inconsequential (in the broader picture) as regards McCabe but gonna hurt many people when it comes to Iran, N Korea, trade etc
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