Trump picks Elaine Chao for Transportation Secretary

[txradioguy]

All that is left on the TOS Trump train are hardliners, retreads, bleep, twits, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, con men, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, car thieves, bull dykes, ass-kissers, shit-lickers and Methodists.   

Could you repeat that, sir?

[Night Hides Not]

Could you repeat that, sir?

Damn, we're all dating ourselves, with our knowledge of quotes from Blazing Saddles.

"It's twue, it's twue..."

[rodamala]

Damn, we're all dating ourselves, with our knowledge of quotes from Blazing Saddles.

"It's twue, it's twue..."

No, thank you!  Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.

[txradioguy]

Damn, we're all dating ourselves, with our knowledge of quotes from Blazing Saddles.

"It's twue, it's twue..."

LOL! me and my friends used to spend our lunch hour in Jr. High repeating as many movie quotes from Mel Brooks movies as we could.

I intend this year to sit down with my son and watch it.

He needs to see the classics. 

[Emjay]

Wow. Really draining that swamp.

Further proof that Trump is out to rid us of the so-called GOPe.

[GrouchoTex]

Damn, we're all dating ourselves, with our knowledge of quotes from Blazing Saddles.

"It's twue, it's twue..."

....but we don't want the Irish!

[txradioguy]

....but we don't want the Irish!

Throw up your hands/Stick out your tush/Hands on your hips/Give 'em a push/You'll be surprised, you're doing the French Mistake/Voila!

[GrouchoTex]

Throw up your hands/Stick out your tush/Hands on your hips/Give 'em a push/You'll be surprised, you're doing the French Mistake/Voila!

...I'm working for Mel Brooks!
Not in the face!

[Sanguine]

You honestly don't see anything wrong with that nomination?

I'm sure it was meant sarcastically.   

[GrouchoTex]

Chao definitely is what would be considered establishment.
Cases could be made for Gingrich, Romney, Giuliani, Haley, and Christie as well.

[Emjay]

That may be true.  On the flip side, for everyone warning about how Trump would be no different than Hillary because he's just a "New York liberal", this is yet another appointment that Hillary would never have made.

For some strange reason, I respect your knowledge and opinions.  So, aside from this being something of a betrayal to his loyalists, how would you rate this pick?

I can't understand why she married that horrible person...other than that I don't see a lot against her.

[Emjay]

....but we don't want the Irish!

I hate that kind of movie ... but maybe I'll have to see if Netflix has Blazing Saddles as a historical reference.

[Oceander]

That may be true.  On the flip side, for everyone warning about how Trump would be no different than Hillary because he's just a "New York liberal", this is yet another appointment that Hillary would never have made.

Six of one, half dozen of the other.  I thought that - at least according to Trumpists - that the GOPe was simply part of the Uniparty with the democrats?  That would make this exactly the sort of pick Clinton would make in conceptual terms - someone from the Uniparty.

Or is the GOPe now all hunky-dory with Trumpists? 

It's like listening to windshield wipers:
Flip

Flop

Flip

Flop

ad nauseam

[geronl]

What flag thing??

@AbaraXas

[Wingnut]

You honestly don't see anything wrong with that nomination?

Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

[Wingnut]

I intend this year to sit down with my son and watch it.

He needs to see the classics. 

You are a good father!  But you are gonna need to explain a shitload of 1970's colloquialisms...

[Frank Cannon]

It's like listening to windshield wipers:
Flip

Flop

Flip

Flop

ad nauseam

Say from a Socialist built Volkswagen that deflated your spare tire every time you used the windshield washer?

[Cripplecreek]

Wow. Really draining that swamp.

This swamp draining stuff is just starting to look like sloshing it back and forth.

[Sanguine]

This swamp draining stuff is just starting to look like sloshing it back and forth.

Maybe even pouring a little more in.

[Suppressed]

I remember back in 2004-2007ish saying anything remotely unfavorable about Bush was an insta-zot from Der Jimfurher.

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

And then before that, it was trouble if you were in favor of W.  Remember this rant about George W. Bush?

So, it doesn’t matter if he snorted coke as a youth? It was a long time ago, a youthful in-discretion? Kinda like people who frequented sneakeasies during prohibition? Kind of a cute story, eh? Well, how about all the people whose lives have been destroyed by being arrested for the felony of drug possession? What about the millions of people who are rotting away in your filthy drug infested prisons at this very moment?

Well, by God, if you people insist on electing another cokehead as President, you damned well better throw open all the prison cell doors and free every man, woman, and child you’re holding on drug charges. And if you’re gonna elect another drug felon as President, you’d better rescind each and every one of your unconstitutional drug laws now on the books, including all of your unconstitutional search and seizure laws, and your asset forfeiture laws, and your laws that enable your unconstitutional snooping into our bank accounts and cash transactions. Well, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. You people are sick! Conservatives my ass. You people are nothing but a bunch of non-thinking hypocrits! You’re a shame and a disgrace to the Republic!

And, I, for one, am tired of taking orders from cokeheads and felons! Elect another one and I’ll tell you what. I’ll be ready for war! It’ll be time to take up arms and run the filthy lying bastards out!

Posted on 08/20/1999 03:19:31 PDT by Jim Robinson

Yes, threatening insurrection if George W. Bush won in 2000.

And of course, there was that period when FR was banning anti-illegal-immigration posts, when W was suddenly the Savior.

The windshield wipers over there started well before Trump, but they used to be on intermittent.

[Wingnut]

It's like listening to windshield wipers:
Flip

Flop

Flip

Flop

ad nauseam

Well, the midnight headlight blind you on a rainy night
Steep grade up ahead slow me down makin' no time
But I gotta keep rollin'
Those windshield wipers slappin' outta tempo
Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
But I gotta keep rollin'

[corbe]

The top Republican in the Senate says he won't recuse himself when it comes to voting on President-elect Donald Trump's choice for transportation secretary.

Trump on Tuesday picked Elaine Chao - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's wife.

McConnell is telling reporters that he won't bow out of the Senate's role to advise and consent on presidential matters.

Chao and McConnell were married in 1993. Chao has served as labor secretary.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Never heard of a Senator recusing himself though? 

[Sanguine]

It's the art of the deal, baby!

[corbe]

Never heard of a Senator recusing himself though? 

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

   Never heard of it either, but a quick bing search turned up this:


Schumer recuses from Comcast-Time Warner deal

  By Reid Pillifant
  | 02/17/14 11:48 PM EST
 

Sen. Chuck Schumer will recuse himself from congressional consideration of Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, because his brother, Robert, was a lead attorney on the deal.

A report over the weekend raised questions about Schumer's impartiality, after The American Lawyer magazine named Robert Schumer, a partner at Paul Weiss, its "Dealmaker of the Week" for his involvement in the sale.

"As Senator Schumer and his brother had never discussed the matter before, the piece in American Lawyer was the first Senator Schumer learned that his brother had worked on the deal," said Max Young, a spokesman for Schumer, in a statement. "Now that he’s aware of his brother’s involvement, Senator Schumer will recuse himself from Congressional consideration of the matter to avoid any appearance of bias."

Schumer had previously praised the deal, saying Comcast had told him they expected to increase Time Warner's operation in New York, planned to keep New York 1, and were committed to increasing jobs in Buffalo.

“While we still need to review the details, it seems like the Time Warner Cable acquisition will be a good deal for New York," Schumer said in a statement on Feb. 13, shortly after the deal was announced.

Schumer's recusal gives the deal one less champion in Washington, where the companies are likely to face intense legislative and regulatory scrutiny over whether the combined company violates federal anti-trust laws.

Robert Schumer told American Lawyer that the deal anticipated many of the regulatory questions.

"We obviously had to be confident that we believed the deal could get done," he told the magazine. "There were significant negotiations around the contract terms involving the regulatory approvals, but obviously we were very comfortable with it."

Comcast executive vice president David Cohen told reporters last week that he expects the deal to be approved in nine to 12 months.

http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2014/02/schumer-recuses-from-comcast-time-warner-deal-011036