Comrade Kennedy
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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.).
The five senators' offices either declined to comment or did not immediately respond to a request for comment. -
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.
