IronWing
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IronWing
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shady28
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Lol! Do you even read your own bullshit??
This guy is definitely not part of the swamp, where Nancy Pelosi manages to have a net worth of ~$105 Million by being a D.C. politician for 30 years, not to mention the 20 years prior being a Dem operative.
Zinke got into politics in 2008. Before that he was a Navy SEAL, with a degree in Geology. His political career has been spent mostly on issues regarding armed services, and natural resources.
From your own link :
"Zinke, who studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon and served as a Navy SEAL from 1986 to 2008 before entering politics, campaigned for his House seat on a platform of achieving North American energy independence. He sits on the House Natural Resources Committee as well as the Armed Services Committee.
A lifelong hunter and fisherman, the 55-year-old Zinke has defended public access to federal lands even though he frequently votes against environmentalists on issues ranging from coal extraction to oil and gas drilling. This summer, he quit his post as a member of the GOP platform-writing committee after the group included language that would have transferred federal land ownership to the states.
"
imported_tajmahal
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Because they know that even with the prestige and the honor of serving their countries, that they're going to have to deal with the infected scum pustules that make up the media and the opposition party.
imported_tajmahal
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Congratulations on picking a truly interesting major. Are you an old style rock hound or a newfangled numbers cruncher?
IronWing
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The current Sec of Interior came from the private sector. How is selecting a Republican Congresscritter draining the swamp?
IronWing
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These days, more work on the hardrock side. Started out my career in number crunching groundwater contamination.
shady28
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Sally Jewell isn't a swamp member either, but the guy that had that office from 2009-2013 was nothing more than a lawyer turned career politician. Pure swamp, no credentials in that position.
My point is simply that Zinke, who has been in D.C. for only 7 years, was an active Navy SEAL before that, and has a keen interest and background relevant to the job is hardly "swamp" material.
MrSquished
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She married a wildly successful investment banker. That's how she got really rich. But don't let the facts get in the way.
for your encore tell us about very rich John Kerry or Al Gore, or whomever, and I'll put your dreams to rest there too.
it's like Trump gets elected and rightie regressives start hating a lot of successful people. perhaps they don't have enough bankruptcies to really turn these righties on.
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shady28
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Nancy Pelosi? I guess the fact that it's pretty easy to be a wildly successful investment banker with inside information from your insider wife, who's been in politics for 50 years and isn't subject to insider trading laws (politicians aren't) escaped your minuscule intellect.
Do make sure to keep tripping over your own stupidity and bias, always quite entertaining.
60 Minutes: Pelosi Insider Trading (2011)
MrSquished
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Watching Chopped so I don't feel like watching the video until later, but I will. But from a little searching it sounds like it's nothing but a bunch of horseshit based upon some loose-lipped right-wing think tank speculation. OMG they bought into the VISA IPO and the stock went up in 2 days! Holy fucking shit. Fuck I would have invested in VISA if I had the spare cash at the time. That's a no brainer. Credit cards make America go round. If this was so legit they would have prosecuted her, after all they went after Martha Stewart for Chrissakes. From an article:
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News' "60 Minutes" report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be "soft corruption."
The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers -- including Pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama -- who reportedly bought stocks around the same time legislation involving those investments was being discussed.
Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008, according to CBS. They bought 5,000 shares at the initial price of $44; two days later, shares were trading at $64, CBS said.
The network reported the investment came at the same time a piece of legislation that was opposed by credit-card companies was making its way through the House.
"Congress has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi," Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said in a statement soon after the report aired Sunday night.
"It is very troubling that 60 Minutes would base their reporting off of an already-discredited conservative author who has made a career of out attacking Democrats," he added.
CBS said it used as a starting point for its story the research of Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University.
About a year ago, he began work on a book about "soft corruption" in Washington, CBS reported. The network said it had independently verified the material it used.
Pelosi's spokesman criticized the CBS story for failing to note that the "legislation in question was reported out of the Judiciary Committee on October 3, 2008 -- the day the House was consumed in passing TARP and also the last day the House was in session before the November election."
It also failed to note that in September 2008, the House passed the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights, Hammill said.
"In the next Congress, the House and Senate passed and President Obama signed the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights and the Dodd-Frank legislation, which included a stronger, more direct approach to addressing swipe fees," the spokesman said.
In addition to Pelosi, the CBS report took a look at the investments of of Bachus and Boehner."
I wonder how you feel about the allegations of Bachus and Boehner. You probably feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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cough, cough - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
what was that again shady?
oh, just more lies and false information.
and i can't forget, that act also covers the President, thanks to Republicans.
I don't think I'd say nearly all.
Michael Flynn, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, and Linda McMahon are clearly wholesale unqualified.
Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Steve Mnuchin, James Mattis, Wilbur Ross, and John Kelly are all qualified and will likely do a pretty good job if Trump allows them to. none would be my first choice, even among Republicans, but I think they're the best of the people Trump would have agreed to.
the rest I'd say are nominally qualified based on their resumes, but who don't inspire confidence.
I actually learned today that 2 of Trump's nominees and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs all served in the marines together... it inspires some confidence that they'll probably be able to isolate and force Flynn out.
He's just desperately diverting away from the thread subject, anyway.
It's a variation on "they're just as bad!" 7 totally expected behavior.
pcgeek11
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http://watchdog.org/235785/epa-lawsuit-pond-fines/
A rancher is taking the Environmental Protection Agency to federal court, asking a judge to stop the agency from fining him more than $16 million because he ildilt a small pond on his property.
Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming says he made sure to get the proper permits from his state government before building the pond. After all, this is America in the 21st century, and nothing done on your own property — certainly when it involves the use of water — is beyond government concern.
http://www.businessinsider.com/justices-epa-sackett-wetlands-2012-1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several conservative members of the Supreme Court criticized the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners after the government told an Idaho couple they can't challenge an order declaring their future home site a "protected wetlands."
Don't expect a real response. Shady tends to run away when confronted with his dishonesty.
ivwshane
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Oops! Looks like you don't have all the facts once again. That's what happen when you get your info from within the bubble.
https://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/muddying-the-clean-water-act/
IronWing
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ivwshane
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You think he will triple down or should we expect him not to respond to the thread any more?
shady28
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Kinda funny watching you turds say 60 minutes is lies and fake information...
Maybe the fact that the 60 mins Nancy Pelosi peice was from ... drum roll...
2011
And the legislation you cite was from :
2012
Guess that's too hard for you two huh?
imported_tajmahal
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No really the Annenberg factcheck says they're right. It's says factcheck right there in the name, how can you doubt it? If it wasn't true and accurate it wouldn't be on the internet and it couldn't say "factcheck"
ivwshane
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Oh well then we should totally believe some idiot on the internet who just declared something isn't true because he said so while providing no, zero, zilch, nada, bupkis, counter evidence!
Are you really that fucking dumb? Put up or shut up little troll.
Michael Flynn shared classified secrets with foreign military officials without authorization. He went unhinged at the convention attacking Clinton for much less. Turns out he should have locked himself up. The media should have done its job but emails! We are going to deserve this next four years of this BS and the best people!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.bd3a6a39bb33
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.bd3a6a39bb33
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