GOP Senators Wrinkle Their Brows Over Trump Firing BLS Chief
So Trump is getting pushback from some Republican senators over booting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the jobs report. What the hell does that mean? They're trying to talk sense to him? Are they going to frown and send stern letters? Via NBC News:
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wy., called the firing “kind of impetuous.”
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Lummis said. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”
What do you mean, "if," Cynthia? Are you really that stupid?
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., blasted Trump’s decision to fire McEntarfer as well.
“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just did it because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” Tillis said.
Since Tillis is not running for reelection, this is just meaningless. Next?
Rand Paul says, “We have to look somewhere for objective statistics. When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized."