THE WHITE HOUSE HAS APPARENTLY BEGUN TO COMPLETELY
IGNORE OVERSIGHT REQUESTS FROM DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ON VARIOUS
ISSUES, THIS IS NOW A BLANKET REJECTION OF OVERSIGHT REQUESTS
FROM MULTIPLE
SOURCES --
BACKING THIS UP --
YOU COULD NAME A MOST ANY TOPIC, THERE HAVE BEEN EXAMPLES
OF THIS.
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES, OF COURSE, IS
INFORMATION HAVING TO DO WITH TRUMPCARE, THE AHCA.
TRYING TO
FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT, THEY ARE REBUFFED AT EVERY
STEP.
NOW --
THAT IS AN INTERESTING
NONSENSE STATEMENT, BECAUSE OF
COURSE CHAIRMAN ONLY COME FROM THE PARTY IN POWER, WHICH IS NOT
THE DEMOCRATS.
SO THERE ARE NO DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN, MAKING THAT
STATEMENT ME NOTHING TO THIS CONVERSATION.
THIS HAS BEEN
GOING ON FOR MONTHS, THERE WILL BE NO OVERSIGHT.
YOU HAVE
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN OF VARIOUS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES IN THE
HOUSE AND SENATE, WE KNOW HOW MUCH WE CAN TRUST THEM TO
INVESTIGATE THESE SORTS OF TOPICS.
THAT STATEMENT ABOUT, WE DO ACCOMMODATE REQUESTS FROM
CHAIRMAN, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE HAD A HA-HA!
AT THE END.
MY FAVORITE
QUOTE IN THIS STORY WAS FROM A LONGTIME -- WHAT THEY DESCRIBE
AS A LONGTIME SENIOR REPUBLICAN STAFFER, THEY SAY THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION WAS NOT ALWAYS QUICK TO RESPOND WHEN WE WERE IN
THE MINORITY AND WOULD ASK FOR THIS KIND OF INFORMATION FROM
HIS ADMINISTRATION, BUT THAT HE NEVER ORDERED AGENCIES TO STOP
COOPERATING WITH REPUBLICAN OVERSIGHT.
IT JUST NEVER
HAPPENED.
SO AS USUAL, REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM, UNPRECEDENTED.
RECORD-BREAKING.
ALSO NOT SURPRISING THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE SPECIFICALLY ISN'T
HAPPY ABOUT OVERSIGHT.
I THINK THAT WILL BE THE CENTERPIECE OF
THE WAY THE SUMMER WILL GO.
IT IS SO CHILDISH AND PETTY, IT GOES TO THE FIRST STORY WE
DID ABOUT PULLING OUT OF THE PEARS ACCORDS AND HIS BELIEF
THAT ANY AGREEMENT HE MAKES HAS TO HAVE A WIN FOR THE UNITED
STATES AND A LOSS FOR SOMEONE ELSE, IT'S THAT KIND OF THINKING
THAT HAS THEM DO THIS.
THEN JUST DON'T COOPERATE, TAKE THE BALL
AND GO HOME.
AND ALSO A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING,
ASSUMING THIS ORDER CAME FROM THE TOP, AND I SUSPECTED IT DID,
THAT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS.
AS EVIDENCED
ALSO BY HIS TWEETS ABOUT HOW ON THE BUDGET AND HEALTHCARE THE
SENATE SHOULD CHANGE ITS RULES TO 51/49, WHEN BOTH OF THOSE
BILLS ARE IN RECONCILIATION.
WHERE IT IS 51/49.
IT GOES TO THE DURABILITY OF NARRATIVES TO ME.
HIS SUPPORTERS
BELIEVE, AND SOME OF THEM HAVE DROPPED OFF, ADMITTEDLY, THIS
IDEA THAT HE CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS AND WON'T LOSE SUPPORT IS
NOT TRUE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, BUT THIS CORE GROUP
BELIEVES HE WENT THERE TO DRAIN THE SWAMP OR WHATEVER OTHER
METAPHOR YOU WANT TO USE, AND WHEN IT TURNS OUT HE IS ALLOWING
NO OVERSIGHT OVER WHAT HE DOES, THAT HAS NO EFFECT ON MANY
PEOPLE.
WHEN IT COMES OUT HE HAS ISSUED MORE EXEMPTIONS FROM
ETHICS RULES IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS THAT OBAMA DID IN BOTH
HIS TERMS, THAT DOESN'T MATTER TO PEOPLE.
THAT HE'S PACKING HIS
CABINET AND EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT WITH BILLIONAIRES AND LOBBYISTS,
IT DOESN'T MATTER, FROM THE SAME COMPANIES THAT HE CRITICIZED
HILLARY CLINTON FOR BEING FRIENDLY WITH, IT DOESN'T
MATTER.
THIS ISN'T SURPRISING, BUT THE ENTIRE THING IS INCREDIBLY
FRUSTRATING.
THAT HIS SON-IN-LAW HAS SECURITY CLEARANCE.
THAT TOO.
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