Limping Out of the Ring
Louisanna Republican Congressman John Kennedy said this morning that it is his job to find mistakes in nominees and that Trump called him on Friday and agreed that Matthew Petersen should withdraw his name from consideration.
Unqualified? Honey, when even Donald “only the best people” Trump thinks you’re unqualfied, you should probably turn in your house key, shut off the mail, and find a qualified person to take over your cat tending duties.
I wonder why Congressman John Kennedy didn’t get to question any members of Trump’s cabinet members? He would have had a lot more fun.
Sheer probability would suggest that at least ONE of Trump’s appointees/nominations would be halfway competent for the job. The fact that not a one is suggests it is deliberate.
1To bad the congressman wasn’t around for Clarence Thomas.
2Hmmm…
Article III provides what description there is of the judiciary the framers imagined. Intentional or not by the Framers, the entire process to select, nominate, and confirm Article III judges is political. So, likely a President before Drumpf selected a stump dumb hack to whom a favor was owed and nominated him. The Senate confirmed. When the new Judge proved himself to be an embarrassment on the bench, the Senate seems to have developed a list of informal qualifications in self-defense.
And yes I agree with @Mike that the outrageously low quality of nominees is intentional. Jeff Mateer was nominated and his only qualification was his hatred of the non-heterosexual world. The nomination prolly made some MF’ing Talibangelical billionaire happy, who then dropped a few hundred thousand dollars into various Republican coffers.
In this instance, as in others, I.HATE.REPUBLICANS.
3There is a special part of Tartarus for people like the current roster of republicans. Oath breakers are especially hienious as they do so much damage. The rethugs now seated are about the worst I’ve ever seen. The people must rid ourselves of the fetid carrion in congress if the United StAtes is to continue as a democracy.
41) It is Senator Kennedy not Congressman. Senators have advice and consent duties the House does not.
52) Being that the House has no Advice and Consent duties added to the fact that the Congressman Kennedy, as referenced here, does not exist is a couple of good reasons that he couldn’t question cabinet appointees. Senator Kennedy does exist and like all good rethuglicans he laid down a whimpered like the beaten cur he is and approved every criminal presented by his parties criminal leader.
Thank you. K. I’ll deduct my mistake from your smug bill.
6Thank god for you of TWMDBS. “Limbo poles, smug bills.” I need that witty, snarky, smartassery every single day. It brings a smile to my face and softens my heart. Gracias. Or, as we used to say as ignorant little children, “Grab yer ass.” My sibs and I thought that was hilarious. Oh c’mon. Our ages were single digits and we were saying ASS.
7Ha Ha! JJ said said she’d be less attentive.
8She never said anything about abdicating her role in administerin whoopins upside the head with the hair-sweepin-up broom!
Can’t find it now, but I’ve been tempted by a t-shirt that says, “I have gone __ days without making a sarcastic remark.” On the printed image, the number has been filled in with a zero, and “days” has been crossed out and replaced by “hours.” Many of y’all could also wear this shirt proudly, which is just one of many reasons why I enjoy all y’all’s company. (That’s second person plural emphatic.)
9It’s kinda amusing that Kennedy described his actions with Petersen as ‘doing his job’. Because what he has done in supporting this godawful tax bill is abdicating positions he has held and espoused repeatedly as State Treasurer in Louisiana. He stuck his damned nose in every budget bill in Louisiana with opeds like this one. http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/opinion/guest-columnists/2014/11/19/louisiana-needs-stop-deficit-spending/19299403/
While the following is his job description as treasurer. Louisiana’s treasurer is the state banker, investing, disbursing and managing the state’s money and its savings accounts. The treasurer chairs the Bond Commission, which oversees state borrowing and debt levels.
I called his office and gave him a two second belly rub for the hit job he did on Petersen while giving him my opinion that his actions were only for show. Then I gave him what for about his ‘deficit hawk’ past which also seems to have been only for show. Made me feel a little better, but it really had no affect on the GD brown noser.
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