The enemy within

The Fox in charge of the henhouse.

Mulvaney, Watchdog Bureau’s Leader, Advises Bankers on Ways to Curtail Agency

Their anti-government outlook is not a pose.

The GOP is run by people who hate the government and use responsible posts within it to sabotage it, to frustrate its mission, and to cut out its heart, as Tillerson did to State, wherever they can.

Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives on Tuesday that they should press lawmakers hard to pursue their agenda, and revealed that, as a congressman, he would meet only with lobbyists if they had contributed to his campaign.

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lending industry officials at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. 

“If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”