As we’ve said before, the phrase, "all the best people,” will never not be funny as long as this president* is the president. (“Infrastructure week” is its only real competition as a natural punchline.) Now, however, the good people at ProPublica have supplied a handy guide to exactly how funny the joke is. They have created a database of all the Top People who have been put in place by Camp Runamuck, a startling number of whom drew paychecks from industries they now are supposed to regulate, lobbied against the real mission of the agencies they currently head, and have as their only public-policy experience their presence at the conservative shape-up halls in and out of government.
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The pipelines between conservative policy think tanks — namely the Heritage Foundation and the Koch Brothers’ Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce — and the Trump administration are clear, as is their effect on federal policy. Just before Trump took office last January, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, one of the main conservative advocacy groups funded by the Koch Brothers, unveiled a deregulatory wish list. The action plan highlighted 19 Obama-era policies affecting the environment, labor and technology that Freedom Partners wanted gone. “This strategy can help to unravel eight years of regulatory overreach starting immediately,” the organization’s vice president, Andy Koenig, wrote in an accompanying press release.
Charles P Pierce
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