Ya can’t make it up.
The other day Democrats rallied at an outdoor rally outside the Treasury Department where they spent their time complaining about Trump appointee Elon Musk.
The Wall Street Journal reported this:
Democrats are focusing their fire on billionaire Elon Musk — not President Trump — as they push back against the administration’s lightning-fast moves to dismantle parts of the government and dig into sensitive federal data.
“In the building behind me, Elon Musk is seizing power from the American people. We are here to fight back,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), at a large rally Tuesday at the Treasury Department headquarters. Musk “wants the power to decide whether or not every road repair in America goes forward, whether or not every Head Start center in America opens and whether or not every military base anywhere in the world operates according to Elon,” she said.
She added: “No one elected Elon Musk to nothing.”
Then there was this: “‘Not one Democrat in America voted for Elon Musk,’ adding that not one Republican or Libertarian had voted for him either.”
Congresswoman Maxine Waters chimed in: “‘We have got to tell Elon Musk: Nobody elected your ass,’ Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California told a raucous crowd assembled on 14th Street outside the Treasury building on Tuesday night.”
And on went the ravings of a similar nature.
So: Stop. Full stop with this deliberate — hypocritical — dishonesty.
The fact of the matter is that Donald Trump was elected. Big time. And the president of the United States gets to appoint his staff, which essentially is what Musk has become.
Newsflash?
Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters and all those other complaining Democrats do — wait for it — exactly the same thing.
How, you ask?
Every single elected Member of the Senate and House — the Congress — has the right to do exactly what the elected president does: Appoint their own decidedly unelected staff. And give them power.
Having worked for a congressman,...
No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here.
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