Appointments telling
The recent Senate votes, 50 for and 49 against, to confirm Bernard McNamee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Kathleen Kraninger to Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are quite telling.
McNamee was a lawyer for a science-denying Texas lobbying group.
Kraninger is a long-term government employee and attorney who is devoid of any financial or law practice experience.
These appointments support Paul Krugman’s indictment (PDN 12/4/18) of the GOP as climate science deniers and endorsers of the delusional, willfully uninformed, narcissistic and decidedly evil president.
I say delusional because the “not believing” of the fourth climate assessment treats the report as a matter of faith, not fact.
The president proclaims his superior intelligence trumps, pardon the expression, the work of nine government agencies, 15 universities, nationwide focus groups and 65 lead scientists.
I say narcissistic because of his worldwide proclamations, tweeting, of his self-serving ideas and tyrannical rejection of any opposed viewpoint.
I say evil because the GOP’s support of Kraninger ignores that she was directly responsible in her position in the Office of Management and Budget to oversee the agencies which separated children from their parents.
This was judged unconstitutional for lack of due process.
Further, it is morally repugnant for the distinct lack of empathy for helpless children and anguished parents.
Again, the Senate being in bed with the president supports Krugman’s indictment.
If, one lies with dogs, fleas are inevitable.
Bill Atkinson,
Port Angeles