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Mitch McConnell to Reid in 2009: nominee "financial disclosures must be complete... prior 2hearing being scheduled."
https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/818068447716409345
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ethics-official-warns-against-confirmations-before-reviews-are-complete/2017/01/07/e85a97ee-d348-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.e6fc529fdef0
Here is the full @OfficeGovEthics letter to senators. The ending is ominous: "For as long as I remain director..
https://twitter.com/tamarakeithNPR/status/817778160595009536
treestar
(82,383 posts)It should be pointed out every step of the way.
Cha
(298,049 posts)who knows it. The US m$m is in their pocket.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)The party in power pushes the limits. Does anyone expect anything different? Its called human nature.
kacekwl
(7,027 posts)These are sub-humans hungry for power & wealth they cheat and manipulate to get it before anyone finds out and has a chance to stop them.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)I have no support for what the repubs are doing, but instead pointing out human nature is consistent regardless of party.
kacekwl
(7,027 posts)kind of people do regardless of party is a sickness. I believe most people don't act this way , hopefully.
Crunchy Frog
(26,719 posts)The Democratic party plays by the rules and bends over backwards to accommodate the Rs, and be "bipartisan".
Any other statement is playing the false equivalency game.
avebury
(10,953 posts)Volaris
(10,278 posts)He would change the letterhead, copy and paste the body, and mail that shit right back to the Beshelled One. If it were ME, I would be a dick and include everyone on the transition team and all nominees in the email chain. Let Mitch take the angry phonecalls.
CanonRay
(14,144 posts)I think the Nixon administration said that somewhere around 1969...