Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

AG Jeff Sessions have fired U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara.  The Trump administration had asked resignation from over 40 U.S. attorneys.  This is not unusual as new administrations want their own people in these positions.  But usually there is not a big turnover like this suddenly.  When Bill Clinton did this in 1993, he was heavily criticized by the conservatives.  The situation with Bharara is also strange in that Trump had asked him to stay on in November when Trump was elected.  Bharara is in charge of the highest profile district in the country.  The targets of his office is often big rollers in Wall Street and other important people in Manhattan.   In fact the main character played by Paul Giamotti in the show Billions is loosely based on Bharara.  He is seen as a crusader against corruption.  While he has targeted many Republicans on Wall Street, he has also convicted NY assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and sent him to prison for 12 years.  He has also began to investigate NY mayor De Blasio, another Democrat.  So it is surprising that Bhararar was asked to resign in the middle of this investigation by Trump.  Bharara, an Indian American, is a fighter.  He refused to resign and forced Trump to fire him.  I am sure we are not going to see the last of him.

The Congressional Budget Office is supposed to be a non partisan entity.  Presidents and Congressional members have, however, criticize the CBO in the past when the CBO findings are not in their favor.  But the GOP and Trump is criticizing the CBO BEFORE its findings of Trumpcare come out!  So I guess the GOP already know that their numbers are so bad that there is no way the CBO will find their plan better than Obamacare.  This is not surprising given that Trump said recently that he did not know health care is so complicated.  DAH!

Does anybody believe that Wiki Leak is helping democracy?  It claims to be that by making government policies transparent.  So now it leaks CIA secrets.  It seems odd to me if Wiki Leak wants to promote democracy, why has it not leak anything from Russia, China, or ISIS?   Is the U.S. and Europe easier to hack or are there other motives Wiki Leak has that it is not revealing?  It seems very hypocritical to me.