Comments on: Why I don’t blame Trump all that much for Christopher Wray

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:55:04 +0000

Europe needed German industry, and there was nobody left that wasn’t a Nazi to run things, so they were rehired.
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Rehired by whom, when?
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About 20% of Germany’s adult population held Nazi Party membership cards in 1945, so it seems a stretch to say there was ‘nobody left’ to ‘run things’.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:38:13 +0000

Sounds like post war denazification. Europe needed German industry, and there was nobody left that wasn’t a Nazi to run things, so they were rehired.

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:39:31 +0000

This post, “Telemachus on July 13, 2023 at 5:56 pm said:”
Is the most important one of this thread. If you read Mike Pompeo‘s book, Pompeo had great success at the CIA and the State department by finding people like Telemachus says. Trump’s appointments are the biggest failure of his administration. It is obvious that he made no or very little effort to find good candidates. His successes were when he found someone honest to make suggestions like the Federalist Society for Supreme Court justices. Contrast Trump with Ron DeSantis who has made the bureaucracy in Florida function to his agenda. I will do everything I can to support DeSantis to get the Republican nomination. I do not think that United States will survive a Trump nomination with a sure loss in 2024.

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:03:21 +0000

Snow on Pine on July 13, 2023 at 8:44 pm said:
Mike K–

Say the House gets really fed up and mad, and zeros out some office within an Agency, or even an entire Department or Agency, the bill goes next to the Senate for it’s approval, and it won’t pass.

But, even if it were to pass, the President could just veto it.

Thus, zeroing out an agency’s budget would only work if one party had control of the House, Senate, and the White House, and all agreed on this drastic course of action.
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According to a friend who had worked in DC for DoD, and had to deal with Congress, that’s not really true. Or is only if you actually zero it out. He says that if there is an impasse on funding, the LOWER number gets used.

So just pass a bill with half the current amount. Then stick to your guns. Of course, that last item is iffy.

One thing I noticed back in the 60s was the way the lefties could discipline their pols. They were perfectly willing to let someone lose who had let them down. (How many pols were to the left of Humphrey?) So it’s a big deal when a Sinema or a Gabbard cuts loose. That doesn’t happen in the Republican party. MOST of our pols are, well, not really ours. And have no fears of loss.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:56:17 +0000

Trump couldn’t have gotten a replacement through the Senate. He could have fired Wray, but Biden would have appointed someone equally bad or worse.

Merrick Garland is an object lesson in a lot of ways. The jurist who was supposed to be moderate, judicious, and responsible turned out to be a partisan hack. Mueller likewise, the figure of towering integrity, turned out to an empty suit. Durham and Weiss also fizzled.

Appointees become the pawns of those below them (and usually of those above them). Having spent time in Washington or the bureaucracy or the Establishment or academia, they are already more than half-way there when they are appointed.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:27:23 +0000

The career abuse and emotional and financial abuse done to General Flynn is criminal. I believe there were also physical affects on him and/or his wife due to the extreme stress they were put under.

It’s Kafka’s “The Trial” played out in modern America. A national disgrace!

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:09:04 +0000

Oops, that should be Dan Goldman (not Adam Goldman).

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:38:36 +0000

Sleazeball Jerry Nadler’s (and fellow creep Adam Goldman’s) slanderous attacks on Kash Patel, WRT the IRS whistleblower, continued:
“EXCLUSIVE: Ethics Complaint Filed Against Congressman Who Slurred Whistleblowers;
“Kash Patel’s attorney filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Dan Goldman and simultaneously sent a referral to the Department of Justice.”—
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/14/exclusive-ethics-complaint-filed-against-congressman-who-slurred-whistleblowers/

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:28:31 +0000

now general flynn actually had mapped every province in afghanistan for mcrystals counterinsurgency plan, of course the administration through that away and handed the portfolio to biden, any doubt what would be the result, also they let brennan pick the targets they were better off with mr magoo,

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:22:08 +0000

weissman destroyed the lives of 40,000 arthur anderson employees, yet didn’t touch bp or goldman sachs who were enrons real enablers

Generals Allen Mcmaster Petraeus, all honorable men, sarc, the first was caught lobbying for qatar, who was lufts rival client, the second well hired ciaramella, to serve the country team, the last need I elaborate, grizzled war fighters like senior chief gallagher are scapegoated by the jag corps, it’s no longer like the tv show if it ever was, Milley and Austin skate over the utter capitulation to the Taliban,