How the fuck is Elaine Chao still Transportation Secretary, and why is Carper/Coons Silent?
The Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling at least $78 million for favored projects as McConnell prepared to campaign for reelection,” Politico reported.
Coons: I’ve got a prayer breakfast to organize!
Carper Chao? That’s what we used to get in the Navy after my long flights…
Word.
America’s political class is corrupt, they don’t serve as and as such always seek to serve their owners, be it Wall St. or the rich in general. 2020 will not only be defeat Trump at all costs it should be to mount a serious primary for Coons with an excellent candidate. Neither of these two will change, it’s up to us.
A serious primary challege to Coons would have started a year ago.
Seriously, when it comes to this Administration how can you possibly have any reserves of outrage left? Most of mine was spent before the election. I admire your ability in being able to continually pull outrage out of the depths of your soul. How much more can you give? Most of us are only made flesh and bone. We ran out of outrage about the Trump Administration a long, long time ago.
We’re the Ogallala Aquifer of outrage — diminished but not depleted.
Carper was just about to make a comment on Chao the other day, but he got sidetracked and started telling a folksy story about this one time when he was in the Navy he did this thing.
Did you know that Carper was in the Navy during Vietnam?
It was the safest branch of the service to be in if you didn’t want to step on a feces-smeared spear of sharpened bamboo — or something that would just blow you up — in the jungle.
To be fair, the medics with the Marine grunts in the boonies were U.S. Navy corpsmen (and naval aviators regularly got shot down over that jungle — a guy named McCain comes to mind), but, yes, most guys in the Navy weren’t in ground combat. As a side note, the dilemma facing draft-eligible men was that enlisting in the Navy carried a four-year active duty commitment, vs. two years if you allowed yourself to be conscripted (and, of course, face the chance of being assigned to the infantry, with a year in scenic Indochina).
Yeah, I didn’t say it was a guarantee. Just bettered your chances. And when you’re from his part of West Virginia, two extra years in the service is a reward, not a punishment.
SO you did know he was in the Navy!
He mentions it, or includes a picture of himself in uniform, in every campaign mailer. And he’s a headliner on the downstate VFW circuit.