Right after my comment, I came across this:
Elaine Chao is a Pox On The GOP — Mitch McConnell Keeps Putting Her in Positions To Do Damage So He Should Pay The Price
Elaine Chao is a Pox On The GOP — Mitch McConnell Keeps Putting Her in Positions To Do Damage So He Should Pay The Price
By Shipwreckedcrew | Mar 05, 2021 8:30 AM ET
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
It is a central tenet to my conservative views that China and the Chinese Communist Party are the number one threat to the position of the United States in the world as the preeminent economic and military power. China and the CCP are overtly desirous of supplanting the United States in that role. It the top national priority — maybe the top 10 national priorities — and all CCP policies must be viewed through that prism when evaluating motives behind CCP actions and statements.
Elaine Chao was born in Taiwan — not in the Republic of China. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 8 years old. She became a naturalized citizen when she was 19 — that is 48 years ago.
My views on Elaine Chao do not include a fear she is an “asset” of the CCP, burrowed into the GOP and various Presidential Administrations.
My views on Elaine Chao are that she has always had a blind spot when it comes to unethical conduct while she occupied government positions, and she does not knowingly acknowledge and accept that there are “optics” issues when she so closely and openly embraces the business-dealings of companies founded and run by her father, and their lucrative financial entanglements with China and the CCP. She is “stuck” in the decades-old “open China” mindset followed by US companies to tap into Chinese markets because it is financially beneficial to her on a personal and family level — without regard for the damage China and the CCP wish to do to the United States in taking advantage of the “Open China” mindset of western corporations and governments.
But it is not necessary that McConnell be “compromised” — only that his personal financial interests are greatly enhanced by lucrative and long-standing business ties between his wife’s family and the CCP which subconsciously works against the idea that we need to focus on trade and economic policies to handicap Chinese hegemonic efforts.
If Chao was not married to McConnell, does anyone think she would have been named Secretary of Labor by Bush 43 or Secretary of Transporation by President Trump?
The Office of Inspector General released a report today that documented numerous instances of unethical — and arguably — illegal conduct by Choa during her four years as Secretary of Transporation in the Trump Administration....
She is an ethically challenged former Secretary of Labor and an ethically challenged former Secretary of Transporation.
And I can’t find any reason why she should have been in either office in the first place — other than the fact that she’s married to Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell should pay the price for his wife’s transgressions because he’s responsible for her being in those positions. He should step aside — or be removed — from his position as Senate Minority Leader.
Good article, thanks.