Trump's Consumer Victory Officially Makes a Joke of Financial Reform
Earlier this year, when researching a story on Donald Trump's executive appointments, I talked to current and former Hill staffers about Mick Mulvaney. The humorless debt truther from South Carolina was the man His Orangeness wanted to put in charge of the Office of Management and Budget, and the mention of Mulvaney's name generated a lot of adjectives.
"Dumb even by congressional standards," was one description. "A moron's moron."
Mulvaney was most famous for wanting to solve the national debt by deploying his sweeping ignorance of global economics as budget policy. Putting him in charge of the OMB was therefore like putting the Baader-Meinhof gang in charge of Lufthansa.*
Like the rapturist preachers who spend their Sundays rooting for the end of the world, Mulvaney believes in a paradise that apparently rests somewhere just beyond the smoldering catastrophe that would follow a default on the national debt.
"I have yet to meet someone who can articulate the negative consequences [of defaulting]," he said during the debt-ceiling debate in 2010.
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Baader-Meinhof gang? You're really dating yourself on that one Taibbi.