Posted on 01/12/2017 2:19:45 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: A couple of audio sound bites here. Ben Carson testified today, confirmation hearings, housing urban development. Up first Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos and Jon Karl discussing Ben Carson. (paraphrasing) “He’s a brilliant guy, but what does he know about housing? He doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s doing.”
KARL: The most interesting hearing of all, because Ben Carson is a brain surgeon, he’s a neurosurgeon, brilliant, has a great personal story, he has no experience whatsoever in the issue of public housing. So he’s gonna be drilled for hours on the specifics of what Housing and Urban Development does. We’ll see how much homework he’s done.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Presumably he has boned up on all this.
KARL: I know that he’s been doing mock hearings, they’ve taped these hearings, they’ve looked at game tape. He’s done a lot of homework. But this is an entirely new field for him. It is not brain surgery. So we’ll see how he does.
RUSH: What do you mean he has no experience? He got out of it, didn’t he? He found a way out of public housing. Isn’t that the objective here, Mr. Karl? Do you want people condemned to that for the rest of their lives? What do you mean, he doesn’t know what he’s doing? See, he’s never been in government. He has no idea how bureaucracies work. The guy solves major problems. He grew up in public housing, he had a mother who knew what was necessary to get out of it, and he did.
As you can tell, it ticks me off. It’s clear that the people running HUD all these years are the ones that don’t know what they’re doing. Public housing is a mess! In many cases it’s a drug infested cesspool. Nobody should have to live like that, the money we spend on it. You take somebody who’s come from that and has escaped it, which ought to be the objective via success and self-reliance. Here’s Carson himself. And Elizabeth Warren just grilled him today. And you know what her questions focused on? Exactly what we’re just talking about. She’s asking Carson if Donald Trump is gonna benefit from all these contracts that are gonna be let for Housing and Urban Development. Her question begins the bite.
WARREN: Among the billions of dollars that you will be responsible for handing out in grants and loans, can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president-elect or his family?
CARSON: It will not be my intention to do anything to benefit any American.
WARREN: I understand that.
CARSON: It’s for all Americans, everything that we do.
WARREN: Do I take that to mean that you may manage programs that will significantly benefit the president-elect?
CARSON: You can take it to mean that I will manage things in a way that benefits the American people.
WARREN: To the best you understand that.
CARSON: If there happens to be an extraordinarily good program that’s working for millions of people and it turns out that someone that you’re targeting is going to gain, you know, $10 from it, am I gonna say no, the rescue Americans can’t have it?
RUSH: Yeah. Just get the premise here. (imitating Warren) “Dr. Carson, can you promise me that your stewardship of HUD will not be directing money to Donald Trump and his children?” How must these people think? They think like criminals. They think like corrupt public officials because I guess they have experience with it.
Where does a question like this come from? Ben Carson may be one of the most ethically honest people ever to serve in government. And here comes Elizabeth Warren of “you didn’t build that” fame asking him if his purpose is to steer federal contracts to Donald Trump’s kids. Do we have time? Yeah, she got the last word in. Next bite real quickly here.
WARREN: Although we do have a problem here, and I appreciate your good faith in this, and I do, Dr. Carson, the problem is that you can’t assure us that HUD money, not of $10 varieties, but of multimillion-dollar varieties will not end up in the president-elect’s pocket. The reason you can’t —
RUSH: Stop the tape. Where does this come from? What do you mean he can’t guarantee that it won’t end up in Trump’s back pockets? Oh, man. Has any other HUD secretary been asked if he can guarantee the money won’t end up, say, in the back pocket of Ted Kennedy to help with the bar tab for crying out? What are we talking about?
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RUSH: Hey, look, let’s not forget about Elizabeth Warren. People may not know this. She enriched herself and her family. You know how she got it? She flipped houses, and some people say she used insider information to flip houses of the poor that she would buy that had been foreclosed on in Oklahoma and other places. You know, she’s a Fauxcahontas out there. She’s got like a thimbleful of Cherokee blood flowing through one of her toenails, so she’s an Indian, or a part of one, whatever.
Looks like Fauxahontas is flipping teepees with “inside” smoke signals.
I don’t think the sounds coming out of her mouth are intended to convey any information. I think she’s just trying to gain political advantage. If she could have pulled it off with just grunts and grimaces, she had might as well have done that.
I hope for the best, but Dr. Carson is a sensitive professional, who doesn’t appear to lie or pretend very well. I hope he doesn’t whither under this heavy scrutiny.
I suspect Donald himself will be encouraging Dr. Ben to stay strong.
You she how the lying, cheating mind of a democrat works?
She is looking at the opportunities to steal government money, not the chance that Carson may have the insight to help solve the problems with HUD.
How I LOATHE these @#$%^&*! Leftist Commie CRIMINALS!
But - it’s going to be a great lesson to anyone paying attention in the upcoming weeks. These awful, AWFUL people who will be dragging President Elect (LOVE THAT!) Trump’s candidates through a cesspool of their making, is really going to show us their True Colors.
Rush is right. Where DOES this line of questioning come from?
I say it’s projection. Leftists always, ALWAYS blame you for crimes they have or want to commit.
God Bless Dr. Carson.
Didn’t ValJAr and Resko rip off the gov’t over real estate deals?
Fauxahontas is certifiable and she tries to put words in Dr. Ben Carson’s mouth who’s not only a brain surgeon but a man of integrity, she’s terribly outclassed and doesn’t even know it.
Fauxahontas is a typical Ivy League white racist.
So that entitles her to try and put down a black MD.
Her ancestors probably owned slaves, so racism is an inherited trait.
She and Booker running for president 2020, using these hearings to start their campaigns.
That would not surprise me if they did.
Dr Carson is not a liberal, so of course he doesn’t lie.
The good Doctor needs to offer her a free CT scan the faux Indian!
Light on in the teepee, no one home!
I heard someone refer to her as Princess Shrieking Moonbat, how appropo.
Excellent point, and so true,
She claims to be Ani Yun Wiya, but one of her ancestors was an army officer who marched the Ani Yun Wiya on “The Trail of Tears” in 1838...
And very fitting.
-—They think like criminals-—
They are criminals
And, she’s from Massachusetts. She is Ameritrash by virtue of where she lives.
Good grief, can he do any worse than whats been not done the last 8 years?
These hearings should,last a few hours and thats it. They are gonna oppose everyone anyway. Just shorten everything so they can all just vote against them and we can pass them. We know what they are going to do.
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