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Mick Mulvaney

No One to Throw Under the Bus

November 12, 2019
by Peter Feinman
Who Are you Going to Blame?

The Wicked Witch of the White House and his Flying Monkeys are at the proverbial fork in the road with no Yogi Berra to guide them. On one hand, there is

NO EXTORTION, NO EXTORTION, NO EXTORTION.

On the other hand, there is

SOMEONE ELSE DID IT, SOMEONE ELSE DID IT, SOMEONE ELSE DID IT.

On the other other hand,

EVEN IF HE DID IT, IT IS NOT IMPEACHABLE.

On the other other other hand

THE DEEP STATE, THE DEEP STATE, THE DEPT STATE IS THE CORRUPT ONE.

Of course, sometimes the Flying Monkeys babble all the scenarios at once. This approach is based on the old standby: run it up the flagpole and see what sticks when you throw it against the wall!

NO COLLUSION TO NO EXTORTION

The phone call was perfect. Never in the history of the United States has there been a more perfect phone call between the President of the United States and a foreign leader. In fact, the only more perfect call is the one about to be released this week when the witch hunt hoax hearings begin.

No president comparable to Lincoln and Washington should be impeached.

The first thing every former Republican now Trumpican representative should do when they get up in the morning is to check and see what tweets have been issued since Fox & Friends began. Your loyalty is to the President and not to the Constitution. No collusion. No extortion. Read the transcript.

EVEN IF HE DID IT, IT IS NOT IMPEACHABLE

The Democrats took this approach the last time around. In January of that impeachment year all the Democratic talk was about the vast rightwing conspiracy. There was no truth to any of the charges. It was all bogus. Nine months later, it was “Yeah, he did it. So what? Get over it.” While there are closet Republicans who would like to take this approach, as Trumpicans they cannot. It will be fun in a tragic sort of way to watch former decent people wrestle with having to sell their soul to show their loyalty.  No collusion. No extortion. Read the transcript. Remain loyal or else. The threat of “or else” may not work on Republicans who are retiring and/or who have a conscience.

THE DEEP STATE, THE DEEP STATE, THE DEPT STATE   

This approach seeks to duplicate the success against the Mueller report now against Schifty Schiff. The subtext of the counterattack against the Mueller report was that the real collusion was by the Democrats with their bought and paid for Steele Dossier. It was really the Democrats who were in collusion with the Russians and the Democrats who should be investigated and charged.

But the Russian never interfered in the 2016 election as Putin publicly declared in a joint conference with the beneficiary of the actual interference siting right beside him. But the Democrats should be investigated and charged anyway even though it was not Russia but the Ukraine which interfered. Are you following this? I am having trouble doing so even as I type it!

The counternarrative believed by all Trumpicans was that the Deep State has instigated the effort to remove the duly elected and legitimate President by any means possible. Duped-by-Russia Hannity has identified the perpetrators of this covert operation. He has been salivating since the summer in expectation of the Inspector General Report that will nail these traitors to the wall. He is still drooling in anticipation as winter approaches

Once the whistleblower is exposed, the truth of the Deep State operation in the Ukrainian hoax will be revealed. The Flying Monkeys are just waiting for the opportunity to trash that person. We witnessed their assault on a decorated soldier who dared to tell the truth who really was a double agent. The Flying Monkeys do not want the whistleblower to testify so they can question this person. They want this person outed so they can destroy this person just as they will do to Anonymous once they discover that author’s name.

Meanwhile Bill Barred-for-Life apparently actually has limits to what he will do on behalf of his client. This shocking development raises some interesting questions. He was involved at some level in the extortion attempt. That means he knows first-hand at some least some of what happened. This is a different situation from the Mueller report. Suppose his global gallivanting to discover the truth of the Deep State Russian witch hunt has not turned up sufficient evidence for him to even go to a grand jury to indict Hannity’s hit list. What then? It is possible that he has a modicum of self-respect and decency to want to preserve what’s left of his integrity rather than turn into Vice President Brown Nose.

None of this will stop the Flying Monkeys in the House from launching a scorched earth assault on the Bidens. That effort will get full coverage on the Bull-Trump network and will be believed by Trumpicans. It will not stop the impeachment but it will provide an alternate reality scenario for Kellyanne Conway to live in.

As a result, there will be two televised hearings of the impeachment. One will be reported by the Fake News networks, newspapers, and websites and the other will be by the Bull-Trump counterparts. Since Trumpicans, like the mainland Chinese, only get their news from one source, the government propaganda network they will only see what Clueless Jim Jordan asks, Duped-by-Russia Hannity reports, and Little Donee Waney tweets.

WHO ARE YOUR GOING TO THROW UNDER THE BUS?

Yes, extortion did occur but it was a rogue operation conducted by people without the knowledge or approval of the world’s worst manager. He had no idea what was going on. Even the Ukrainians knew more about the extortion attempt than the President of the United States did. How could he be expected to know what his personal lawyer, chief of staff, or rich donor with no diplomatic experience were up to?

So will Man Overboard Mulvaney be the one thrown under the bus? Here is what I wrote about him last December:

Mick Mulvaney Parachutes onto a Ship in Chaos the Rats Are Abandoning

Back when Mulvaney was a normal human being, he made disparaging comments about the immature child candidate: he did not like him, he was an unfit role model for his children, and he was not a very good person. And this is from a conservative Republican….

Mulvaney considered the two candidates in 2016 to be the two of the most flawed human beings who had ever run for president in the history of the United States.

“Should either of these people be, be a role model for my 16-year-old triplets? No,” Mulvaney said on a South Carolina talk radio show in October 2016, CNN’s KFile reported. “In an ordinary universe, would both of these people’s past activities disqualify them for serving for office? Yes. But that’s not the world we live in today. The world we live in today, it’s either him or her and for me that’s still an easy choice.”

Then like so many other actual Republicans, he sold his soul and became a Trumpican. But even more than Bill Barred-for-Life, Manoverboard Mulvaney knows what really happened in the failed extortion attempt. He even said so. In public. Without a subpoena. Get over it. Now he has requested legal permission to testify before Congress and the American people. Presumably he is doing so because he intends to tell the truth once the Courts provide that permission. If he dares to tell the truth with first-hand information, what will happen to him? It will be too late to throw him under the bus if the Courts call upon him to tell the truth. But if he is thrown under the bus now, why would he even wait for the Courts to go public with the truth? Despite all the MAFIA talk and the admiration for Putin and Saudi OJ by the extortionist, it is unlikely that a hit will put on Manoverboard Mulvaney to prevent him from testifying honestly. Is there someone else close to him who can be threatened?

WHAT HAPPENS IF VICE PRESIDENT BROWN NOSE DISCOVERS THAT HE IS NOT THE HEIR APPARENT BUT NIKKI HALEY IS? WHAT HAPPENS IF HE REALIZES HE SOLD HIS SOUL IN VAIN? SUPPOSE HE LEARNS THAT NOW AND NOT SIX MONTHS FROM NOW? IS IT TOO RISKY TO THROW HIM UNDER THE BUS NOW? IT’S NOT AS IF HE WILL EVER BE A PROFILE IN COURAGE. (Will Mike Pence Become a Profile in Courage?)

Do you really think he will throw Ridiculous Ruddy, Attack Mutt, under the business? There really is not anyone who can be pinned for the blame except the person in charge. That’s why the message for all the Flying Monkeys, House Trumpicans, and Senate Trumpicans has to be NO EXTORTION, READ THE TRANSCRIPT, THE BIDENS AND THE UKRAINIANS ARE THE CORRUPT ONES.

Mick Mulvaney Parachutes onto a Ship in Chaos the Rats Are Abandoning

December 21, 2018
by Peter Feinman
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The story of Mick Mulvaney becoming the chief of staff will become a case study on the Trump presidency. Indeed all that has happened, is happening, and will happen between the time of announcement of Mulvaney accepting the position on December 14, 2018, and his taking the position would qualify as a Class 5 hurricane off the Richter scale that would sink the ship of state in normal times. But these are not normal times and no sooner does one come up for air from writing a post then one finds another storm has erupted.

Let’s consider the ongoing swirl of chaos around of the president of chaos as it relates to just this appointment.

1. He is the third chief of state in less than two years.
2. He is being appointed on a temporary basis – has that ever happened before?
3. He already has two jobs for a president who brags about how he has his pick of all the top people in the country who are eager to work for him.
4. He is keeping his two jobs just in case his temporary job really proves temporary and he needs sometime to fall back on unlike all the other people who have been fired or who have abandoned ship.
5. Back when Mulvaney was a normal human being, he made disparaging comments about the immature child candidate: he did not like him, he was an unfit role model for his children, and he was not a very good person. And this is from a conservative Republican. Today it may be difficult to recall how despised and disgusted the majority of Republicans once were about this narcissistic serial-business-failure con-artist. One wonders how many chose not to vote in 2016 for president. Given this disrespect for the Republican candidate why could Mulvaney not have voted for the Democratic candidate?
6. Mulvaney considered the two candidates in 2016 to be the two of the most flawed human beings who had ever run for president in the history of the United States.

“Should either of these people be, be a role model for my 16-year-old triplets? No,” Mulvaney said on a South Carolina talk radio show in October 2016, CNN’s KFile reported. “In an ordinary universe, would both of these people’s past activities disqualify them for serving for office? Yes. But that’s not the world we live in today. The world we live in today, it’s either him or her and for me that’s still an easy choice.”

His judgement serves as a reminder of the challenge to Democrats to offer an alternative candidate for Republicans who are disgusted by the reprehensible person who has hijacked the Republican Party and put his own name on it like one of his buildings. One should keep in mind that the flawed Democratic candidate of 2016 would like to be the Andrew Jackson of 1828 who won that election to right the wrong of supposedly having had the election of 1824 stolen from him. As the knowledge of the extent of the Russian violation of America in 2016 increases and the willingness of the Republican candidate and president to subordinate America’s interests to those of Russia so he can build a Trump Tower in Moscow becomes better documented, the cry to right the wrong may grow louder. Democrats will need to steer between the Clinton Charybdis and the Political-Correct Scylla if it wishes to attract Republicans in 2020 like Mulvaney in 2016 but who still have not sold their soul.

Turning now from the individual to the ship of state Mulvaney is parachuting into, let’s consider whether or not it already has hit an iceberg.

1. The rats are abandoning ship. No one not named Trump or Roger Stone is loyal to him. The Trump Foundation is going the way of the Trump University. The scam has been exposed and is being disposed of. New York State is seeking to brand the Trumps with the mark of con, to be banished from the non-profit world into the wilderness.

2. Every Trump organization will be indicted if it has not been already. If such indictments go to trial, who will be witnesses for the accused?  With a chief financial officer who has immunity, a campaign manager who has pleaded guilty, a deputy campaign manager who has pleaded guilty, and a personal lawyer who has pleaded guilty, who is left to take the stand in defense of any Trump organization who is not named Trump? The odds are Mueller already could indict Junior any time he wanted, but he chooses not to because of the possible reaction by Daddy. NanChuck has exposed the shortcomings of Daddy if he should take the stand as a witness as his former lawyer already told him after conducting a mock cross-examination in the White House. So who will defend any of the Trump organizations that are indicted? As 2019 progresses, Mulvaney will find that more and more of his time will be devoted to matters that normally a chief of state would not have to be concerned about.

3.  On the other hand, the acting Attorney General has just authorized himself to take control of the Mueller investigation regardless of any ethical considerations. He knows what he was appointed to do. So he may give a big Christmas or holiday president to take care of the concerns noted above. On the other other hand, that present if given will set off a slew of new confrontations once the next Congress takes office.

4. After December 31, Americans will begin to receive their statements on the value of their investments if they have not already looked online. While not all Americans are invested, this marker takes the issue outside the insider-baseball in-the-beltway dimension of the Mueller probe. If individual Americans start feeling the price of the chaos, then the political dynamic will change.

5. As of this post, the likelihood of a government shutdown seems certain. The events of the day are a good indicator of the power of Fox and Friends to decide what the President of the United States will do. Mulvaney’s voice is not the one this president will listen to.

6. The more the real world presses in, the more the immature child president will lash out without any concern for the consequences. He lacks the mental necessities to understand the concept of consequences or even to care. He must give in to the impulse of the hissy fit not just in his tweets but in his decision-making. Consider his decisions to withdraw from Syria and half-withdraw from Afghanistan. Far from being well-thought decisions carefully implemented, they are case studies in the decision-making process of our immature child president who feels more and more trapped by the real world. Look at what has happened in just a tweet.

He has granted Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the coveted 00 O.J, license to kill previously awarded to Putin and MBS.

He has shown no loyalty to the Kurds who put their lives on the line to fight with us as allies against ISIS.

He has shown that the very concept of “allies” has no meaning to the transactional President – unless you can offer something to him he could not care less about you.

He has no interest in America being a world leader and does not care who fills in the vacuum.

7. The departure of Mattis means we are now in the realm previously limited to Hollywood and political thriller novels. The adult concept of checks and balances never meant anything to the immature child who could not understand that idea anyway. Who knows what will happen next? Who knows what will happen Friday? Who knows how our foes will seek to take advantage of our chaos? Who knows how our immature child president will respond? Who knows who will resign? Who knows who will decline to obey presidential orders? There is no strategy. There is no plan. There is no certainty but uncertainty. Everything is up in the air. We are in uncharted territories.

Merry Christmas.