Mick Mulvaney Never Knew How ‘Cool’ His Job Was Until He Found Out He’s In Charge Of Government Shutdowns

Listen, just because the outcome of a given action is bound to be bad, doesn’t mean it’s not fun to be the guy who literally gets to bring that outcome to bear.

Take nuclear war, for example. Yes, nuking a country would instantaneously vaporize hundreds of thousands of people and reduce anything in the blast radius to smoldering ash, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to push that nuclear desk “button“.

Given that, you’ll understand why Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney was, by his own admission, super excited when he found out that he’s the man who “technically” gets to shut down the U.S. government if say, his boss decides to use a government shutdown as leverage to extract $18 billion in taxpayer money in order to build an insane, 700-mile-long, 31-foot-tall monument to xenophobia along the entire southern border.

 

You know Mick by now. He’s a moron. And he’s done all manner of moronic things lately including commandeering Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB on the way to effectively ensuring that it no longer functions because you know, fuck consumers, right?

Well Mick did a radio interview with Sean Hannity on Friday and in the course of chatting about the shutdown, Mick said this:

Got that? If not, here’s the transcript:

Sean Hannity: All of the important aspects involving the government continue, and those people that are furloughed usually get their money back, because Congress will give them back pay and a free vacation.

Mick Mulvaney: Yeah, I mean…here’s how I explained it to people. I explained it this – obviously, I’m – the reason that, obviously, I’m heavily involved in this, Sean, is that the Office of Management and Budget is charged with, you know, sort of implementing running a shutdown. In fact, I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts the government down is me, which is kind of cool.

Yeah, Mick. That is cool.

As far as we can tell the only downside here – well, other than the  850,000 furloughed federal workers – is this:

 

Speak your mind

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

3 thoughts on “Mick Mulvaney Never Knew How ‘Cool’ His Job Was Until He Found Out He’s In Charge Of Government Shutdowns

      1. Well, first he would have to admit to himself they were smarter than him AND if he could even do that (doubtful) he would avoid them like the plague so they could not expose him for the reeking pile of dung that he really is.

        I mean, seriously, who among us would have seen John Kelly and Rex Tillerson as fools? When they showed signs soon after they moved in, I thought, Ok, they are strong and smart and are taking the punches in order to keep the Moron caged … I no longer believe they are protecting anyone but him.

        Even that damned doctor the other day – for crying out loud, how many lies did he tell?!? He has served as White House physician during the past three administrations and was the appointed physician to the president for President Barack Obama. He currently serves as the appointed physician to the president for President Donald J. Trump. Here is a really short bio about him: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/bio.asp?bioID=953

NEWSROOM crewneck & prints