"I made this happen with my choices even as everybody else warned me I was selling my soul, but now that I'm privately fretting about small pieces of it, that makes me a good person."
> Republican lawmakers are growing particularly uneasy with cuts impacting veterans, who are given preference in the federal hiring process and have been disproportionately affected by the dismissals.
>“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly.
Meritocracy? What about anything gave them that idea?
I don't know what hopes they have for back channel efforts. In his first Term when the GoP controlled congress Trump would praise a bill one day, and say he would veto it the next. GoP congressmen complained they couldn't get even a response from Trump about what he didn't like at times.
The fact that this has all been handed off to someone else and Trump seems uninvolved is no surprise.
> In his first Term when the GoP controlled congress Trump would praise a bill one day, and say he would veto it the next.
Trump probably rationalizes consistency as weakness. After all, people with principles are people you can cheat and defraud, like his contractors.
Reminds me of a fictional scene:
> “You were out of your league from the beginning, Cavilo,” said Miles, walking slowly around her as if inspecting his prize. Her head turned to follow him, then had to swivel to pick up his orbit on the other side. “You should have stuck to your original contract. Or your second plan. Or your third. You should, in fact, have stuck to something. Anything. Your total self-interest didn’t make you strong, it made you a rag in the wind, anybody’s to pick up. [...]"
"I made this happen with my choices even as everybody else warned me I was selling my soul, but now that I'm privately fretting about small pieces of it, that makes me a good person."
> Republican lawmakers are growing particularly uneasy with cuts impacting veterans, who are given preference in the federal hiring process and have been disproportionately affected by the dismissals.
So now they want DEI hiring back.
Similar to the GoP's views on States Rights, libertarianism ... it's only good when someone chooses what they want, after that it's bad.
>“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly.
Meritocracy? What about anything gave them that idea?
I don't know what hopes they have for back channel efforts. In his first Term when the GoP controlled congress Trump would praise a bill one day, and say he would veto it the next. GoP congressmen complained they couldn't get even a response from Trump about what he didn't like at times.
The fact that this has all been handed off to someone else and Trump seems uninvolved is no surprise.
> In his first Term when the GoP controlled congress Trump would praise a bill one day, and say he would veto it the next.
Trump probably rationalizes consistency as weakness. After all, people with principles are people you can cheat and defraud, like his contractors.
Reminds me of a fictional scene:
> “You were out of your league from the beginning, Cavilo,” said Miles, walking slowly around her as if inspecting his prize. Her head turned to follow him, then had to swivel to pick up his orbit on the other side. “You should have stuck to your original contract. Or your second plan. Or your third. You should, in fact, have stuck to something. Anything. Your total self-interest didn’t make you strong, it made you a rag in the wind, anybody’s to pick up. [...]"
-- The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
Also from Politico: ‘Air traffic controllers cannot do their work without us’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/faa-firings-aviatio...
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