Comrade Kennedy
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@catseye3 said in Comrade Kennedy:
Oh shit, who cares. 24 hours before these hearings 90% of Americans had never heard of OCC, and those who did didn't care.
Because smaller fish make the policy that bigger fish sign into law. And even when handed a set of rules by Congress or by Executive order, people at this level actually can tweak policies to their own preferences.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/a-red-scare-over-comrade-omarova-is-warranted-actually/
“The attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal. We’ve just seen them. Sexism, racism, pages straight out of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s Red Scare tactics,” whined Senator Elizabeth Warren...
Now, it’s true that Kennedy didn’t engage in the kind of nuanced questioning Democrats deployed when spreading uncorroborated gang-rape charges against a Supreme Court nominee.
A number of people in the media have insinuated that Omarova was some kind of defector from the Soviet Union. It’s untrue. It was only by happenstance that she was stranded as an exchange student at University of Wisconsin–Madison — where at that time collectivist ideas were even more popular than at Moscow State University — when the USSR fell apart, at which time her Soviet citizenship ceased to exist. As my parents were defectors, and I have known many others, I can confidently say that people who risked something to escape communism are unlikely to start a sentence, as Omarova did, with, “Say what you will about old USSR . . .” Her nonsensical and pernicious defense of Soviet gender equality (the rest of the sentence is “. . . there was no gender pay gap there”) ignores the fact that American women lived vastly better lives by every conceivable economic and moral measure. Her comments on that issue alone should be disqualifying. Need it be said that if a Republican president’s nominee had tweeted “Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, the health care was amazing,” Democrats (hopefully all people) would have recoiled?
That’s fine. I’m happy Omarova prospered in a free, capitalistic system, becoming a Beth and Marc Goldberg professor at Cornell Law. And, of course, she’s free to hold any views she desires. She does not, however, have a God-given right to hold a powerful position in the bureaucracy, nor is she exempt from accountability for her words and ideas.
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@catseye3 said in Comrade Kennedy:
Oh shit, who cares. 24 hours before these hearings 90% of Americans had never heard of OCC, and those who did didn't care.
Because smaller fish make the policy that bigger fish sign into law. And even when handed a set of rules by Congress or by Executive order, people at this level actually can tweak policies to their own preferences.
@jolly said in Comrade Kennedy:
Because smaller fish make the policy that bigger fish sign into law.
That is actually true for many agencies. And the policies are not so much made as proposed, and the law gets made to legitimize the practice that often has been in force all along.
But hey, thanks for mansplaining!
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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Isn't this just more grandstanding nonsense?
Business as usual, IOW.
I was only joking
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@jolly said in Comrade Kennedy:
Because smaller fish make the policy that bigger fish sign into law.
That is actually true for many agencies. And the policies are not so much made as proposed, and the law gets made to legitimize the practice that often has been in force all along.
But hey, thanks for mansplaining!
@catseye3 said in Comrade Kennedy:
@jolly said in Comrade Kennedy:
Because smaller fish make the policy that bigger fish sign into law.
That is actually true for many agencies. And the policies are not so much made as proposed, and the law gets made to legitimize the practice that often has been in force all along.
But hey, thanks for mansplaining!
Somebody has to.
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OK, just ignore the fact that she's a thief, after all why should we hold peoples' past behavior against them, right?
Focus on the fact that's she's scrubbing things from her resume, and refusing to turn things over to the Senate.
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https://www.axios.com/democrats-omarova-occ-5755a0e4-c6a5-4ca7-b6c7-87d18d5491f9.html
Five Democratic senators have told the White House they won't support Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, effectively killing her nomination for the powerful bank-regulator position.
Why it matters: The defiant opposition from a broad coalition of senators reflects the real policy concerns they had with Omarova, a Cornell University law professor who's attracted controversy for her academic writings about hemming in big banks.
Their opposition also hints at a willingness of some Democratic senators to buck the White House on an important nomination, even if it hands Republicans a political — and symbolic — victory.
Republicans have attacked the Kazakh-born scholar in remarkably personal terms, and turned her nomination into a proxy battle over how banks should be regulated.
Driving the news: In phone call on Wednesday, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), all members of the Senate Banking Committee, told Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — the panel's chairman — of their opposition.They're joined in opposing her by Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
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Isn't this just more grandstanding nonsense?
Business as usual, IOW.
@doctor-phibes said in Comrade Kennedy:
Isn't this just more grandstanding nonsense?
Business as usual, IOW.
Well, it wasn't.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@jolly Oh shit, who cares. 24 hours before these hearings 90% of Americans had never heard of OCC, and those who did didn't care.
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@doctor-phibes said in Comrade Kennedy:
Isn't this just more grandstanding nonsense?
Business as usual, IOW.
Well, it wasn't.
@jolly said in Comrade Kennedy:
@doctor-phibes said in Comrade Kennedy:
Isn't this just more grandstanding nonsense?
Business as usual, IOW.
Well, it wasn't.
Wasn't it the Democrats that blocked her, rather than Kennedy? He was never going to support her anyway.
