You gotta love the folks who once called themselves Republicans with all sincerity before the curtain was pulled back about 10 years ago to reveal the establishment phonies that they actually were all along. Political commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol is one of those people who will tell you one thing with a smile on their face while crossing their fingers behind their backs, hoping you won’t eventually be able to figure out their game.
So with all the tongue chewers foaming at the mouth over the prospect of President Donald Trump’s administration laying off nearly half of those at the Department of Education (DOE), with the caveat that the entire department could become a thing of the past, it was these same people who espoused the same “get rid of non-essential” people agenda years ago before they became “oppose Trump no matter what” swamp monsters.
Back in October of 2013, Kristol appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where the conversation encompassed the possibility of a government shutdown. At one point, Kristol spoke about his time as “chief of staff at the Education Department and sounded very flippant about the having to “designate” who at the department was or was not “essential.”
“I was chief of staff at the Education Department. I had to designate the ‘essential employees’ when we shut down,” Kristol said with a smile on his face. “I joked to Bill Bennett, who was my boss, ‘Could we just say that no one at the Education Department is essential, in all honesty?’”
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This is how Bill Kristol (and many others) spoke about the Department of Education before Trump wanted to get rid of it. But since it's his job to oppose everything Trump does, of course he's now claiming that it's vital. pic.twitter.com/KmGb35WCR8
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Kristol then went on to finish his comments by saying that a “one or two week shutdown is not going to be the end of the world” to figure out who to keep and who is non-essential.
Nowadays, all you have to do is scroll through Kristol’s X feed to see him rail against the Trump administration’s effort to “downsize every part of government.”
What happened, Billy boy? OrAnGe MaN bAd?! Sounds about your speed.
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