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How McConnell and Chao used political power to make their family rich
New York Post ^ | March 17, 2018 | Larry Getlen

Posted on 03/18/2018 6:46:39 AM PDT by notaliberal

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To: Thank You Rush; Theoria
Both of you lambasted me for a comment I made about Obama getting his mother-in-law $180,000 per year for retirement.

The truth is he wrote an executive order for her to get it for her but Congress denied it so she was never given the money.

So, I was half right.

41 posted on 03/21/2018 8:34:12 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Slyfox; Theoria

“”The truth is he wrote an executive order for her to get it for her but Congress denied it so she was never given the money. So, I was half right.””

That doesn’t appear anywhere online...do you have a source? Do you know the EO number? I really don’t think Congress has anything to say about EO’s...


42 posted on 03/22/2018 7:43:33 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

From what I can gather, Obama tried to slip it into the following:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/30/2016-31875/adjustments-of-certain-rates-of-pay

But it was rejected by Congress. Why? Because his mother-in-law was not a federal employee. That is when we heard about it and assumed that it had passed, however it had been rejected. So, she ended up not getting the payout as Michelle intended.

Here is an explanation of how the rejection takes place:

https://www.nlc.org/article/executive-orders-101


43 posted on 03/22/2018 10:56:27 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Slyfox

Well, I’ll be. Learn something new every day. Thanks.
I had no idea Congress could overrule an EO....

Right now there is a lot next door to us being prepared for house construction and I am busy learning
SEPTIC TANK 101. When curiosity gets the better of me, I go out and wait until one of the workers looks free for a minute and I ask questions. My husband and I are going to enjoy the whole project - we go from window to window to outside (that’s me), to back porch but I’m the only one who asks questions.

Any experienced in the field here on FR, I’d love to hear from you...Our first experience seeing anything like it AND living in an uncivilized place like this that has septic tanks. HA!


44 posted on 03/22/2018 2:35:06 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: notaliberal
Howie Carr had the author on today. Mitch was gifted 25 million by his FIL. I so revile the swamp.

In Oct 2010 I posted after working for a campaign for a Tea Party insurgent, Why isn't the tea party going after K-Street, they are the problem? And I got no answers. I might have been 1/2 right, the Incestuous Kabal that the Swamp had become the art of growing the business (of government) nepotism, and intermarriage that I am not sure we can stop it, nor can PDJT.

45 posted on 03/22/2018 2:42:40 PM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: notaliberal; bitt; petitfour; DoughtyOne

Ping.


46 posted on 02/15/2019 5:16:07 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: LucyT

Ping.


47 posted on 02/15/2019 5:17:55 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: notaliberal

Why did trump
Put this family into his cabinet?


48 posted on 02/15/2019 5:19:03 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: notaliberal

We are a Banana Republic!


Without the delicious bananas


49 posted on 02/15/2019 5:19:50 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I’d like to know that as well.


50 posted on 02/15/2019 5:20:29 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Slyfox

he got his mother-in-law a nice $180,000 per year retirement that all of us are paying for.


FOR WHAT????

I never heard this before. She was supposedly in the WH as a babysitter. Once the kids were too old to need one, guess who never left. She was paid by us? And now has a dream retirement??? Sickening.

What the media would do to Trump if he was enriching all his family like this. Yet everyone loooooooves Obama.


51 posted on 02/15/2019 5:22:18 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: notaliberal

Yes, this stuff makes me numb.

It’s just so disgusting and depressing.


52 posted on 02/15/2019 5:26:27 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: Yaelle

You haven’t heard of it because it isn’t true. It was made up by a satire site and ignorant bloggers are still running with it.


53 posted on 02/15/2019 5:27:52 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I did not post this article. Why does my name appear as the poster.


54 posted on 02/15/2019 5:42:07 PM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: notaliberal

Sorry, Just looked at the date! Last year!!!!!!!!!!!


55 posted on 02/15/2019 5:49:04 PM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Blogger
Everybody turns political clout to personal gain after a while. Time for term limits.


We have been talking about term limits for 30 years now. The deep state doesn't want it; it won't happen. Not in their interest.

The deep state has ways of killing popular initiatives without you even knowing what they did. This is why Trump is so dangerous to them.

56 posted on 02/15/2019 6:57:19 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Yaelle

Yeah, and supposedly Bummer tried to get himself even more money (1 more million) for his retirement, but Congress nixed it.


57 posted on 02/15/2019 7:59:26 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: jjotto

Ok, relieved.


58 posted on 02/15/2019 9:49:10 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Black Agnes; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; ...

****

PING

Thanks, Black Agnes.


59 posted on 02/16/2019 12:19:29 PM PST by LucyT
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