SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on May 10, 2018 16:24:29 GMT -5
Another Hoya bites the dust. More of the "best people", E. Erin Walsh C '83: A high-ranking Department of Commerce official was escorted out of the department’s Washington, DC, headquarters by security last Thursday, according to three sources at the agency knowledgeable about the matter. It is unknown why Elizabeth Erin Walsh was removed from the building, but the sources told BuzzFeed News that there’s an internal investigation underway that involves her, although they could not provide details about the nature of the probe. Walsh was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2017 to serve as assistant secretary of commerce for global markets and director general of the US and Foreign Commercial Service, a position she began last August, after being confirmed by the Senate by a voice vote. Walsh, a former Goldman Sachs vice president, previously served in the White House as special assistant to the president and associate director for presidential personnel. She has worked at the Department of State and Department of Energy and other federal government agencies for 12 years. Walsh declined to comment about her removal, or the current status of her position. A Commerce Department spokeswoman also declined to comment. www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/commerce-department-official-escorted-out?utm_term=.auPwJ0QYn#.ccADqXwr2I’ve got mishandling of classified materials in the Trump Scandal Bingo game. Anyone else want in? I'll go with ethical conflicts with respect to financial dealings for $500. As a matter of pure coincidence, I was at a reunion Happy Hour at the Ebbitt with some former Bush appointees and one has accepted a position with the International Trade Administration. He proceeded to regale us with the story about how everyone's blackberry went off at a meeting with the notification that Ass't Secretary Walsh (his boss) was terminated and being escorted out of the building.
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Post by SSHoya on May 10, 2018 16:55:05 GMT -5
Another Hoya close to biting the dust by aligning with the malignant narcissist Trump? WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders, according to several current and former officials familiar with the incident. And this gem: One persistent issue has been Mr. Trump’s belief that Ms. Nielsen and other officials in the department were resisting his direction that parents should be separated from their children when families cross illegally into the United States, the people said. The president and his aides in the White House had been pushing a family separation policy for weeks as a way of deterring families from trying to cross the border illegally. www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/politics/trump-homeland-security-secretary-resign.html
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Post by tashoya on May 10, 2018 17:19:52 GMT -5
The party of family values strikes again. At least they're consistently opposed to exactly what they profess to support.
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Post by SSHoya on May 10, 2018 17:30:25 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 10, 2018 18:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 19:07:57 GMT -5
Jesus...
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 8:04:53 GMT -5
Lol... Oh Mike...
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Post by SSHoya on May 11, 2018 8:10:40 GMT -5
If you look up the word hypocrite in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Mike Pence. A shameless hypocrite.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 12:09:28 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on May 11, 2018 18:47:29 GMT -5
* * As applied to Democrats and other heathens only.
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Post by tashoya on May 11, 2018 20:36:40 GMT -5
* * As applied to Democrats and other heathens only. It's our fault. We thought that "bigger deal" part was rhetorical. Pence is showing you now that it was not rhetorical and is, by example, showing you the bigger deals. Licking the backside of a lying racist for one.
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Post by SSHoya on May 12, 2018 5:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 12, 2018 9:17:29 GMT -5
Tired of so much winning yet? One of Donald Trump’s most well-received and attention-grabbing campaign promises was that he would allow the federal government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs it covers through Medicare. “If we negotiated the price of drugs, Joe, we’d save $300 billion a year,” he rather optimistically asserted. The reason this money-saving method had not been used, he told audiences, was the influence of the industry. “We don’t do it. Why? Because of the drug companies.” Liberals actually support the idea, which would allow the government to use its bargaining power to hold down prices, and which fed into Trump’s image as a populist outsider breaking with party orthodoxy. Trump claimed that other candidates were too compromised by their donors, but he had the financial independence to do the right thing. “We’re going to negotiate like crazy,” he said. The “crazy” part of that promise has held up, but the “negotiate” part has not. Trump is announcing his Medicare prescription drug plan today, and Robert Pear reports it will not include the promised negotiations. “We are not calling for Medicare negotiation in the way that Democrats have called for,” an official says. nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/trump-broken-every-populist-campaign-promise-prescription-drugs-infrastructure.html
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Post by prhoya on May 12, 2018 9:29:34 GMT -5
SS, for those of us not registered, would you provide a brief summary?
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Post by SSHoya on May 12, 2018 10:05:25 GMT -5
The author suggests that Cohen was simply running a protection racket.
"Novartis discovered almost immediately that Cohen had not the slightest idea how the Trump administration might approach health-care policy. Despite his supposed access to the new president, evidently the topic had not come up."
"What I find striking is that, even after Cohen’s incompetence was apparent, Novartis kept sending those monthly $100,000 checks. The company says the lawyer’s failure to deliver on his promises was not grounds for voiding the contract. Admittedly, if lack of results ever becomes punishable in Washington, the capital’s economy could seize up like a jet engine plowing through a flock of snow geese."
"Still, there’s something very New York, or maybe New Jersey, about this scenario. If Cohen could not help Novartis, company brass may have reasoned that he could be in a position to hurt Novartis by putting a poisoned word in the president’s fickle ear. So it was safer and easier for Novartis to pay up. In the world where Cohen and Trump have kept company for years, the world of failed casinos and luxury condos bought with untraceable cash, it’s not unheard of for a commercial enterprise to pay monthly remittances to individuals with, shall we say, connections."
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Post by njhoya78 on May 12, 2018 10:53:54 GMT -5
Wow. And I thought the Sopranos were no longer on the air.
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Post by prhoya on May 12, 2018 11:27:42 GMT -5
Thanks, SS.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 11:56:09 GMT -5
Imagine thinking the leak is the problem... #BeBest
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 11:57:58 GMT -5
Novartis paid Cohen $100k-a-month.
Novartis paid its lobbying firms $12,000-a-month during that same time period.
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Post by TC on May 12, 2018 12:57:16 GMT -5
Mercedes Schlapp is the one who complained/tweeted about the elites at the WHCD while in a limousine on the way to the afterparty.
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