Health and Human Services? Priceless

U.S. health secretary Tom Price has been flying on the country's dime. He now agrees to pay back $51.887.31 for part of the accrued costs for private charter flights he has taken on government business and now has promised to fly commercial--"no exceptions."

Too little and too late.

The price of the almost $52K only covers the cost of Price's pricey seat but the overcall price may be north of a million simoleons. The case is currently under investigation and Democrats are livid and are acting morally superior over the issue because they don't have good ideas, only personal attacks.

President Trump publicly rebuked Price, and appeared to have been on the cusp of uttering his famous line from his hit TV show "The Apprentice," but he didn't and appears to have allowed Price to bow out gracefully with his resignation, which was tendered Friday morning.

A portion of the
booze bill

"I regret the concerns this has raised [meaning: I regret having been caught and now my screw up is being made public] regarding the use of taxpayer dollars," Price said in a statement. "I was not sensitive enough [meaning: I didn't give a fiddler's flatulence] for the taxpayer." His apology came a day after President Trump's attack on his behavior.

Price admitted Trump spoke with him about his displeasure over screwing the taxpayer, but he didn't put it that way.

But it isn't as if Price is the first politician to fly privately and bilk the taxpayer. 

Trips by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt have also come under fire, particularly by hypocrites on the left who forgot about Nancy Pelosi's booze and food parties where taxpayers footed the booze bill that came to about $101,000 over a two year period, or about $1,000 a week when she was House Speaker.

Pelosi provided her guests with top shelf booze such as Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac Bombay Sapphire gin and so on . . . hic. That was part of what was called "in-flight services" for her trips on Air Force jets paid for by us.

We have conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to thank when they obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2010. It proved Pelosi incurred expenses of about $2.1 million for her use of USAF aircraft for travel.

"Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the time. "And these documents suggest the Speaker's congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else."

Nancy Pelosi, however, paid nothing back and was never investigated.

But that isn't the whole story about the misuse of taxpayer money. Obama officials are also involved in taking pricey trips, including personal trips.

Then attorney generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, then-FBI director Robert Mueller and then-CIA director and defense secretary Leon "The Schnoz" Panetta were also guilty of the same personal use and abuse of taxpayer money.

The FBI convinced Congress at the time that two high-tech luxury jets were needed for the fight agains global terrorism [and better leg room]. As it turned out, global terrorism grew and the jets were used to haul Holder's and Mueller's butts around and Holder's predecessors.

The other officials beside Mueller and Holder were former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales. Between 2007 and 2011, the dynamic duo racked up almost 700 "nonmission" flights at a cost of only $11,400,000, according to the Government Accountability Office. 

Why nothing was reported at the time shows the Accountability Office should also be held accountable.

Those officials are required to use government aircraft, and in some cases, reimburse the government for part of the expenses. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at the cost incurred, Mukasey and Gonzales should have either cut back their miles or not use the expensive Gulfstream V jets.

"These luxury jets were supposedly needed for counterterrorism, but it turns out they were used almost two-thirds of the time for jet-setting executive travel," Grassley said.

The cost for the attorneys general travel was $5.8 million; the FBI director's was nearly as much. About 70 percent of the AG flights were for business and 28 percent for personal reasons. That leaves 2 percent, possibly for dive-bombing ISIS.

The point is, people in power tend to flaunt their power and don't see a problem with pissing away taxpayer money because it isn't theirs. This isn't only about Tom Price--it's a government thing--we wouldn't understand.


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A raving madwoman calls Dr. Carson an 'educated fool'

Repulsive Maxine Waters (Dummy--Calif.) calling Dr. Ben Carson a "fool" is like Blind Lemon Jefferson telling Sebastian Vettel that he's a bad driver. But that's exactly what "Aunty Maxine" did, she called Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson an "educated fool."

The low-class insult came during a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gathering, a place where black Democrats pretend if you are black and not a Democrat, then you're not really black. On the other hand, if you're a white Democrat and identify as black, a là Rachel Dolezal, then you're okay.

"Look at Ben Carson. My God. My grandmother would call him an educated fool," Waters said invoking her dead retarded grandmother, Doh.

"Here's a man who has a reputation of being a highly competent surgeon, but when he talks about poor people, he says they're the cause of their poverty. He doesn't understand why you didn't do what he did and why you didn't make it like he made it. And he doesn't know the difference between slavery and immigration," the former 'Miss Empty Dumpty" said.

Dr. Carson is set to testify before the House Committee on Financial Services, which, incredibly, Waters chairs.

I say 'incredibly' because Waters' reputation regarding finances is extremely sordid  as the Washington Examiner article shows.

She has no business even being on that committee, much less chairing it.

"He's coming before my committee," she said. "If you think I took [Steve] Mnuchin on, you watch what I'm going to do to Ben Carson."

Last July, Waters said that Carson "doesn't care about people in public housing," warning she would "take his ass apart" when he testified before the committee. Clearly, she wasn't referring to proctological surgery at the committee.

She's a disgusting person and is in no position to judge others.


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"Aunty Maxine" Waters accuses Ben Carson of being "white nationalist"

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) went ballistic on Trump and his administration before the Los Angeles Community Review Board. She was so ballistic that her speech may have indicated she may have experienced a total and chronic brain fart.

Waters launched into Trump , Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson.

She complained that there is "uncertainty" due to the Trump administration. "Mr. Mnuchin, who is the Treasury Secretary, who is responsible for over 36,000 foreclosures in this area, is now the Secretary of the Treasury," she said, obviously forgetting the first part of her sentence.

"Standing next to him just yesterday, or day before yesterday, I'm getting these days mixed up," the senile California congresswoman said.

She blathered on: "While the president was defending the white-wing (sic) nationalists and the KKK and all of those alt-right groups that were basically out there in Virginia literally beating and marching and ranting about Jews and black people, etc., etc.," she said.

"But this is what this Cabinet looks like," added the 79-year-old corrupt congresswoman, turning to Trump's personnel, "where we taking about Mnuchin or Ben Carson," as the trained seals went wild.

She then promised them that she'd skewer Carson soon.



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Tillerson confirmed by Senate

Former ExxonMobil executive, Rex Tillerson, has been confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as the GOP is sprinting toward the finish line, running past Democratic resistance to fill the Trump Cabinet. 

The vote was 56-43, and if  you do the math, it means that five Democrats voted for Trump's pick.

As the day began, Democrats attempted to delay the confirmations but Republicans moved fast to advance three nominees to a final vote.

Jeff Sessions also won the Senate Judiciary Committee vote as it went along party lines for a 11-to-9 approval for Attorney General. Democrats dragged out the proceeding Tuesday and the committee advanced Sessions to the floor for the vote.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said, "No doubt we have the votes. It's going to get done."

Obstructionist Democrats have tried to hold up several Trump Cabinet picks using concerns over their records as a ploy, as well as President Trump's new policies and recent executive orders on immigration.

The Republican-led Senate Finance Committee did an 'end around' Senate Democrats' efforts to slow Trump's picks for Treasury Secretary and Health and Human Services Secretary when they tried to boycott the votes.

Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) suspended committee rules on the number of members required to vote, allowing GOP members to vote in favor of Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to serve as Health and Human Services Secretary. Price, by the way, is a medical doctor and knows a thing or two about this area.

Sen. Ron Wyden (Duh-OR) the committee's wimpiest Democrat cried that Hatch wasn't playing fair and broke the rules. Both he and Chuck Schumer retreated to the Democrat's "safe space" located at the third stall in senate lavatory.

Seriously, this feels so good to give back to Democrats what they gave to Republicans. Hearing them cry brings to mind a song by the "Rolling Stones" which is "You Can't Always Get What You Want" but if you cry, sometimes you get what you need.

"What you had was a rump group that met in violation of Democratic values to confirm two ethically-challenged nominees," 'Whining Weepy Wyden' whined to Fox News. "There's no question about that."

Of course there's a question about that. If you're going to boycott normal protocol because Clinton, your leftist felon lost, then the wheels of government are going to run you over, you whiny libtard.

Sessions, Price and Mnuchin will almost definitely get the required simple majority needed for confirmation due to the GOP majority of 52 senators versus the losers that only have 48 due to an American population that's fed up with their nonsense.

Democrats were able to temporarily thwart a Senate confirmation vote on Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency by boycotting a key committee meeting.

The operant word is "temporarily."


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