Herman Cain will not be on the Fed

[fskimospy]

Occasionally we meet the outer edges of what lunacy even this super compliant Senate will allow.

Also lol:
https://wapo.st/2UsgeHn?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.62fb12d124ac

Why is the president inviting a pizza chain grifter into the most secure location in the country?

 

[hal2kilo]

I swear he was just a dodge so Moore's incompetence wouldn't look so bad compared to him.

 

[K1052]

Why is the president inviting a pizza chain grifter into the most secure location in the country?

This is the same person who invited the Russians into the Oval Office then managed to divulge classified intel from Israel and further directly implicate himself in obstruction of justice at the same time.

To sum up: The president is a stupid stupid man.

 

[kage69]

I swear he was just a dodge so Moore's incompetence wouldn't look so bad compared to him.

Moore was bad, Alles was pretty bad too, but not the start of it.

That was a dusting-off like response for a chore that requires a shovel and wheel barrel. The Cheney admin screwed the pooch when they put Secret Service under DHS, it's been down hill for them ever since. Curious that we haven't seen a similar degradation at DSS since 2003, no? They got left the hell alone.

It's definitely easier to be sympathetic to Secret Service efforts these days though, way easier. You never saw Obama treating security briefings like prostate checks, or clinging to insecure lines, or doing business in a resort setting with civilians everywhere, or hell just agreeing with whatever Putin wants and preferring those views to the consensus of American professionals.

I'm worried we are in fact going to see his sister get involved somehow, somewhere. She's got reason to leave her office, he's the sociopath moron of DC that loves nepotism and can't hire anyone but family, zealots or perps and they're both desperate. I'm guessing she has a similar lack of shame as her brother, just not as extreme.

 

[Moonbeam]

It isn't about defending them for their sake. Its about supporting conservatives electing representatives that are at least capable of acting like a decent human being, someone that progressives can work with. I live in an area that for the foreseeable future is always going to elect republicans for our House rep. I would much rather they elect someone like Romney than someone like McConnell. And if that means sometimes defending the Romneys and McCains of the world, then to me that's worth doing. After all, were it not for McCain, millions of people would have been without health insurance for the last couple of years. If we had more McCains in the republican party, the damage caused by the current administration could have been significantly mitigated. It seems to me it is worth it to praise positive behavior from any republicans to encourage electing others who will behave with decency and thoughtfulness (for republicans) rather than just blindly upholding the party line. It costs nothing.

Nope. The solution to the modern Republican party is to completely end it. Reasonable for Republicans is insanity. Insane people don't make good law and should have no voice in making it. We are way way past redemption day. Time to pay the piper. Republican needs to become a historical term like Wig.

 

[theeedude]

Stephen Moore is actually a very useful (wannabe) "economist", because he is very consistently wrong. So having his advise and doing the exact opposite is probably a better economic policy than what the Fed can come up without him.

 

[sportage]

OMG.....
Wouldn't it be WONDERFUL to rid ourselves of Donald Trump, and thus with him all of these morons like Herman Cane?

I've come to the conclusion this crap will go on and on. And only by voting Donald J Trump OUT OF OFFICE will this ever end.
Just "TRY" to ignore all the daily Idiocracy from the Trump Whitehouse, for now....
And instead FOCUS on tossing this moron Donald Trump out once and for all come election night 2020.
And drain this swamp, as it were....
Donald Trump HAS GOT TO GO!
And there is the rally cry for all people. Including republicans.

 

[trenchfoot]

Maybe Trump put Cain up for the job as a snide retaliatory prank on the folks who dislike him.

I mean, Trump can't be that stupid, can he? /s

 

[HomerJS]

Good. Jesus fuck that was disturbing. I mean - hate on him all you want. I don't care for Trump - but as far as things like SCOTUS appointments he isn't exactly appointing people that are unqualified. He's done plenty of other odd/shit appointments no doubt, but not to positions that I highly respect really.

Herman Cain for FED? Yeah, that's a WEE BIT fucking unqualified.

"I don't care for Trump but I will defend him every chance I get"

I can see the yellow going down your back.

BTW - He outsourced the job of picking SCOTUS candidates to the Federalist Society. Mitch McConnell does the heavy lifting of ramming them through. Trump just sits back and takes credit.

Geez you can even get that right.

 

[darkswordsman17]

It isn't about defending them for their sake. Its about supporting conservatives electing representatives that are at least capable of acting like a decent human being, someone that progressives can work with. I live in an area that for the foreseeable future is always going to elect republicans for our House rep. I would much rather they elect someone like Romney than someone like McConnell. And if that means sometimes defending the Romneys and McCains of the world, then to me that's worth doing. After all, were it not for McCain, millions of people would have been without health insurance for the last couple of years. If we had more McCains in the republican party, the damage caused by the current administration could have been significantly mitigated. It seems to me it is worth it to praise positive behavior from any republicans to encourage electing others who will behave with decency and thoughtfulness (for republicans) rather than just blindly upholding the party line. It costs nothing.

McCain openly despised the ACA and his vote on that had nothing to do with anything other than him being pissed about getting disrespected by McConnell and Turmp. And then he fucking voted in lockstep with them on the tax bill which further harmed the ACA. McCain did not give a fuck at all about the ACA helping people, he was not voting for them, he was voting just to piss off those two, and I think he fucking hated doing so because he hated the ACA but because he was a petty dickhead not much different from Turmp in that regard that he'd lash out just because he was mad about how someone acted towards him.

McCain blindly held up the party line. As did Romney. You've been fooled if you think otherwise. I bet you could find others that are every bit as "maverick" as them. Hell I don't doubt you could find McConnell being as maverick as them. McCain and Romney have overwhelmingly enabled McConnell and Turmp as well, so any of them being respectable is just token nonsense so they can sell people this bullshit that they're somehow respectable or not completely beholden to their party the same as the others. They were not respectable, and they did not mitigate the damage Turmp has done, they've full on enabled it. In fact because of people like them, its given just enough respectability to Republicans that it enables the worst of them to get away with more.

There really isn't much difference. Vote for the openly horrible person or the one that pretends to be respectable, you get the same results. Only when the person is openly horrible, they don't tend to get to serve for 3+ decades. Its time to stop letting the closeted horrible people get away with the same behavior just because they aren't as blatantly openly horrible as people like Turmp.