Aside from the other suggestions, I’m pretty sure they think they can (and will) use drones in Afghanistan as well. That’s why in every discussion of the wisdom of the withdrawal they kept talking about remaining in the region, just over the horizon, in order to respond to threats to national security.
If the GOP wins the next election, they might be using a slightly different song to figure out where to send military drones.
This is really awful.
It’s hardly surprising that Republican Senators were opposed, but that the Senate couldn’t advance the nomination on the basis of Dem votes alone is, well, shocking.
And yet they would probably approve Putin for the position.
Enidigm
5828
When the shit eating grin becomes a philosophy.
Aceris
5829
Having read some of “The People’s Money” after seeing this I’m not entirely surprised her nomination didn’t go through.
Laws allowing for compulsory escrow of deposits in the sole deposit-taking bank, which is state-owned, may not be “communism”, but it’s certainly not any kind of “capitalism” I recognise either.
On the asset side things are even worse, a festival of winner-picking which would make the UK Labour governments of the 1970s blush.
It also drives illegal immigrants out of the banking system entirely! So there’s something for everyone to hate.
She strikes me as someone who is highly qualified (the document is replete with excellent technical detail and it’s clear even to a layperson like myself that she really knows he stuff) who has, over the last 10 years, started to develop strongly heterodox policy prescriptions. For an academic that’s a good thing! But the policy prescriptions are so unorthodox that the senate isn’t willing for her to hold a senior federal position. That’s how advice and consent works.
Yes, there are racist Republicans saying racist things, but that should surprise noone, and it’s not why the nomination failed.
EDIT: That’s not to say her nomination didn’t fail because the banking lobby is too powerful - it would be interesting to see if Biden nominates an equally qualified hardline regulator without such radical writings next, and what happens.
Enidigm
5830
IE in the US, advocating changing anything makes you worse than Hitler! Or Lenin in this case.
Seems like a flurry of blinking from the right side of the aisle.
Though this is a great corollary to that vote:
Every Republican Senator who voted against that deal voted both to default and for cuts to Medicare.
Menzo
5833
With that done, please raise the debt ceiling so it isn’t an issue until after the 2024 election.
I will get right on that sir!
Menzo
5835
Even better: raise the debt ceiling to $999 trillion so it’s not an issue forever.
But they won’t do that, because the reality is that Dems like to use it to admonish Republican administrations, too, though generally don’t threaten to cause the US to default.
Matt_W
5836
I really like something like: “Henceforth, the Secretary has the authority to increase the statuary debt limit as needed in order to avoid default and accommodate appropriations legislated by Congress.”
Matt_W
5838
No, sorry, I meant to type “I would really like…”
Thrag
5839
I mean, as a joke right? Like “Artic command accepts new C.O.”
Menzo
5840
Man, talk about someone who continually fails up.
NI1
5842
At least they’ve got lions and tigers.
