{"id":6993,"date":"2019-11-05T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2019-11-05T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:44:06","slug":"quid-pro-quos-are-good-mmmmkay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6993","title":{"rendered":"Quid Pro Quos Are Good&#8230;mmmmkay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The impeachment inquiry has been formalized and the Republicans continue to stonewall despite admission by the Trump administration that there was a quid pro quo. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Acting Chief of Staff\/Trump babysitter Mick Mulvaney confessed to one (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/10\/21\/20924687\/mick-mulvaney-fox-news-sunday-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-mike-pompeo-this-week\" target=\"_blank\">Acting Chief of Staff\/Trump babysitter Mick Mulvaney confessed to one<\/a> before Halloween. The conservative Republican winged monkeys have been scrambling ever since to try and cover their asses on Mulvaney&#8217;s gaffe. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mickster tried to walk back his statement trying to tell people that they didn't hear what they heard. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/20\/771724300\/mulvaney-walks-back-ukraine-remarks-admits-it-wasnt-a-perfect-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\">Mickster tried to walk back his statement trying to tell people that they didn&#8217;t hear what they heard. <\/a>How Orwellian!  Even <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chris Wallace from Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network called him on his lying (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/10\/watch-chris-wallace-grill-mick-mulvaney-quid-pro-quo-remarks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Wallace from Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network called him on his lying<\/a>.  Now the whole mantra from the GOP seems to be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"that there's nothing wrong with a quid pro quo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-republicans-impeachment.html\" target=\"_blank\">that there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a quid pro quo<\/a>. How typically Republican: it&#8217;s okay when we do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t help but notice while Mulvaney bumbled, sweated and strained in front of the press, telling them to &#8216;get over&#8217; the quid pro quo, that with his bulbous, balding head, whiny expressions and round glasses he resembles the annoying school counselor from South Park Mr. Mackey. He&#8217;s even developed his own Mackey-esque catchphrase: \u201cQuid pro quos are good and you people will have to get over it . . .mmmmkay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmulvaneymrmackeyseparatedatbirth1.jpg\" alt=\"OMB director, carnival barker, corporate lackey, and acting Chief of Staff\/babysitter, Mick Mulvaney, bears a striking resemblance to the annoying school counselor from South Park Mr. Mackey and has even developed his own Mackey-esque catchphrase: \u201cQuid pro quos are good and you people will have to get over it . . .mmmmkay.\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-6997\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmulvaneymrmackeyseparatedatbirth1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmulvaneymrmackeyseparatedatbirth1-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>OMB director, carnival barker, corporate lackey, and acting Chief of Staff\/babysitter, Mick Mulvaney, bears a striking resemblance to the annoying school counselor from South Park Mr. Mackey and has even developed his own Mackey-esque catchphrase: \u201cQuid pro quos are good and you people will have to get over it . . .mmmmkay.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impeachment inquiry has been formalized and the Republicans continue to stonewall despite admission by the Trump administration that there was a quid pro quo. Acting Chief of Staff\/Trump babysitter Mick Mulvaney confessed to one before Halloween. The conservative Republican winged monkeys have been scrambling ever since to try and cover their asses on Mulvaney&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quid Pro Quos Are Good&#8230;mmmmkay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,963,3,1762,198],"tags":[1745,1575,1473,74,73,1439,1625,22,20,1899,27,914,9,663,2026,1721,1495,98,596,1487,296,2008,19,2027,47,48,694,872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}