OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) has a habit of saying some pretty silly things. After the Obama administration decided to treat contraception access as preventive health care, the Pennsylvania Republican said the move was comparable to 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Last weekend, Kelly spoke at a local GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in his home state, where the congressman found a new way to complain about the former Democratic president.

“President Obama himself said he was going to stay in Washington until his daughter graduated. I think we ought to pitch in to let him go someplace else, because he is only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is going to totally upset the new agenda. It just doesn’t make sense.​

“And people sit back and they say to me, ‘My gosh, why can’t you guys get this done?’ I say, ‘We’ve got a new CEO, we’ve got some new heads in the different departments, but the same people are there, and they don’t believe that the new owners or the new managers should be running the ship.’”

As Republican conspiracy theories go, this is quite odd, but the story became even stranger when Kelly tried to explain what he meant.
noted, for example, the congressman’s first attempt at a clarification.

Reached by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kelly’s office insisted the comments were supposed to be private and that he was merely reflecting Republicans’ frustration with the deep state. “Rep. Kelly delivered his remarks at a private meeting to an audience of fellow Republicans. He was sharing the frustration of everyone in the room over how they believe certain Obama administration holdovers within the federal bureaucracy are attempting to upset President Trump’s agenda.”​

So apparently offering conspiracy theories about former presidents running “shadow governments” is okay if it’s done behind closed doors and in the company of like-minded people.
Perhaps realizing that this isn’t much of an answer, Kelly’s office told the Associated Press that the GOP lawmaker, despite what he said, “does not believe that President Obama is personally operating a shadow government.”

Kelly added, however, that he wants Obama to intervene and take steps to end leaks from within the Trump administration – as if the former president is somehow responsible for assorted officials, including some from within Trump’s own White House, dishing to journalists.

At least didn’t compare the leaks to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
 
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There has to be some kind of crazy evil plan behind all this madness. All the rest I can dismiss as sleaze and incompetence. But nobody is sleazy or incompetent enough to keep putting Conway in front of cameras. There must be a reason for this.
 
more uber right wingnuts having influence over dumpster and this admin.

"“You have this nativist cabal that has been on the outside looking in for 25 years and now they’re on the inside looking out, and they’re going to have outsized influence,” he said. “In fact, you could say that these groups—CIS and their fellow travelers—are going to own what the Trump administration does on immigration and refugee policy. I’m sure that makes them very happy. I think it should make the country alarmed.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ing-nativist-group-s-wish-list-a-reality.html
 
jp_nyc said:
There has to be some kind of crazy evil plan behind all this madness. All the rest I can dismiss as sleaze and incompetence. But nobody is sleazy or incompetent enough to keep putting Conway in front of cameras. There must be a reason for this.
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Heinlein's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. But don't completely rule out malice."
 
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