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Guess who received virtually EVERY political donation made by the staff of the CFPB...

By Robert Laurie ——--November 29, 2017

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Guess who received virtually EVERY political donation made by the staff of the CFPB... Over the last year, I've frequently argued that "it isn't just Trump." My point has been that Progressives would have directed the same level of vitriol, hatred, and outrage at any Republican who had managed to halt the ascension of the left's queen. Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, whoever - it simply wouldn't have mattered. You would have seen exactly the same effort to destroy that person. There are two reasons for that. The first is that Hillary was supposed to be the final nail in the concept of the United States as a constitutionally-limited republic. She would have finished Obama's work, irreparably altered the courts, and locked in our European-socialist future. They were so close they could taste it, and the stupid voters derailed their plan. Whoever they elected would have been hated with every fiber of the left's collective being.
The second reason is that our Government currently exists almost as a living entity. It toils relentlessly to preserve and expand itself. Anything, or anyone, that manages to stand in the way of its growth is seen an intruder to be destroyed. Trump may be a juicier target than most but, like a billion white blood cells, denizens of the federal dungeon would have swarmed any interloper in an act of self-defense. Need evidence? Take a look at the Washington Examiner's breakdown of political donations made by staffers of the currently-embattled CFPB:
The Obama-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under fire by the Trump administration has been a Democratic Party donor bank, its bureaucrats writing checks to liberals at a rate of 593 to one Republican. Research of donor records on the Open Secrets website maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics revealed that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the dominant recipient of tens of thousands of dollars from CFPB workers, followed by President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who had a huge role in creating the agency. A quick count of donations found:
  • $46,611 to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  • $13,190 to Sen Elizabeth Warren.
  • $19,988 to President Obama.
  • $10,075 to Democratic campaign committees.
  • $1,129 to Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Of the 594 donor entries who listed the agency as their employer, one went to Mitt Romney, the losing 2012 Republican presidential nominee. It was for $1,000. Several other Democratic lawmakers also received donations from CFPB staff. Overall, CFPB employees have donated $114,859.61 to various Democrats and Democratic committees..
In other words, almost 600 CFPB workers made donations, 593 of them went to Democrats and precisely one went to a Republican. Dan did a nice job of breaking down some of the CFPB's other issues here, and he's certainly right that it appears the "coup" attempted by Richard Cordray and Leandra English has failed spectacularly. ...But just think. There are a thousand such bureaucratic rats' nests within the federal machine. They exist at every level, and within every department, of the government. If their staffers are working to fund pro-government expansion candidates the way the CFPB staff was, it means our problems run much, much, deeper than simple leadership squabbles or basic corruption. It means our worst "deep state" fear - an 'ideologically pure' ruling class that exists for self-perpetuation - have been realized.

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