Two universal truths about democrats are 1) they are hypocrites and 2) reality is what they say it is. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal put these truths on display Sunday when he accused President Trump of being a “tyrant” for doing something he has the authority to do and also a thing former president Obama did. Words mean what they want them to mean and things are only bad when a Republican does them.
This is all a pretty stupid and boring thing involving the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Like many government agencies, the President appoints the head and the Senate must approve. This however was a unique scenario as the person running the agency stepped down and tried to illegally name his successor. Because this happened while Congress was on a break, President Trump was well within his powers to appoint a temporary successor.
Obama appointee Richard Cordray was the director of the CFPB, but resigned on Friday. He appointed Leandra English as the deputy director, which in his absence would make her the acting director. As you may have noticed, an agency director doesn’t get to appoint directors, that’s the President’s job. As such, Trump named Mick Mulvaney as the acting director, something he is allowed to do, and seeing as Congress is in recess and can’t approve or disapprove of his appointments, something he had to do. They will, when they return, vote on whether Mulvaney gets to keep this position or not. This is all very non-controversial stuff, backed by the law.
Here’s how Blumenthal sees it:
Congress had great foresight to mandate that the CFPB deputy fills the Director’s vacancy – to stop a bullying, tyrannical President from crippling the agency and undercutting consumers. That more recently passed provision trumps others. https://t.co/6HLb5WEMR9
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) November 26, 2017
“Congress had great foresight to mandate that the CFPB deputy fills the Director’s vacancy – to stop a bullying, tyrannical President from crippling the agency and undercutting consumers. That more recently passed provision trumps others,” wrote Blumenthal.
There is no truth to Blumenthal’s claim that the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which created the CFPB, authorizes the acting director to name his successor, but that’s the least of the problems with the Senator’s tweet.
The democrat is accusing Trump of being a tyrant, which is is an absolute ruler unrestrained by the law. What Trump did is well within the law; there’s no tyranny here at all. Blumenthal also accuses the President of bullying, which is just as dumb. How does using the power he is assigned an act of bullying? Like I said, words mean what democrats want them to mean.
Making this as stupid as possible, former president Barack Obama actually installed Richard Cordray as the director of the CFPB while Congress was not in session. In 2013, Obama used a recess appointment for Cordray, meaning he became the director without Senate approval. Why is Trump a bully tyrant and Obama is not?
The answer is obviously because Trump is a Republican while Obama is a democrat. Blumenthal has been a US Senator since 2011 so he was around when Obama pulled this act of tyranny and yet he was not so outraged back then. If democrats weren’t full of shit, they’d be as empty as their rhetoric.
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