A CIA director who's waiting for the Rapture

[deminks]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-cia-director-whos-waiting-for-rapture.html

Yep. Pompeo's another freakshow. I wrote about him for Salon this morning:

One of the many side stories that has gotten lost in the chaos of the Trump transition is the fact that far-right Islamophobe Frank Gaffney has been serving as a foreign policy adviser. Considering Donald Trump’s views about Muslims, this isn’t too surprising. Trump’s shallow understanding of the issue of Islamist extremism has obviously been gleaned from the right-wing fever swamps and Gaffney owns that end of the bog. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has the full Gaffney dossier here.)

But with all the excitement over Trump’s various mounting scandals, Gaffney’s influence has flown under the radar, at least until this week, That’s when one of his close associates went up to Capitol Hill to testify at his CIA director confirmation hearing. That’s right, Trump’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency, Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, is a Gaffney guy.

This article by Michelle Goldberg in Slate delves into Pompeo’s ultra-conservative religious beliefs, which clearly inform his ideas about Islam. And it led him to an alliance with Gaffney, who is so extreme that he believes Grover Norquist is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who has infiltrated the National Rifle Association. He is so far out there that he was banned from CPAC for insisting that their board was similarly tainted. According to Goldberg, Trump’s CIA director nominee appears frequently on Pompeo’s radio show:

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Pompeo is a deeply conservative evangelical Christian who has said, “America had worshipped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We’d endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.” He believes politics is “a never-ending struggle . . . until the rapture.”

(snip)

Like many of Trump’s nominees, he deviated just enough from the boss’s craziest pronouncements and policies to give the impression that he will serve as a moderating force in the administration. This seems odd, considering Trump’s domineering personality. It is more likely that Trump and his team are telling the nominees to say whatever they need to say to be confirmed.

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emphasis mine

We in Kansas know this to be true.

[DURHAM D]

1. I believe his district is home of the Koch's so I assume

they are responsible for his even being in congress.

[wordpix]

3. just what we need - not surprised the Kochsuckers are behind this

as Cheeto says, "HAAARIBLE"

[madaboutharry]

2. Reading about these people causes great despair.

They are not patriots and they do not respect the Constitution.

[Zoonart]

4. OF course...

What could go wrong?

[2naSalit]

5. And vouching for him on NPR this am

was uberMoron Rep Risch from Idaho.