Yeah, that rate doesn’t seem at all out of line for consultation from a Harvard Law professor.

I was prepared to get upset with your piece for getting something wrong about legal practice, but I think this is just right.

I mean, you don’t become one of the world’s foremost pediatric neurosurgeons if you are dumb as a rock either, yet somehow Ben Carson manages to be a stand-in for a rock in his current position. 

How desperate for a hit piece is the Post that they are throwing around that an elite lawyer is charging $675/hour? Even a $500/hour rate isn’t all that unheard of in corporate cases.

Somehow Rex Tillerson managed to simultaneously be both one of the least qualified Secretaries of State in history and yet one of the most qualified cabinet members in the history of the Trump administration.

Counterpoint: I have a theory that Trump is an illiterate imbecile who has no idea of what any type of punctuation is used for, and simply selects them at random. He is unable to comprehend what the funny-shaped dots mean.

Yep. Trump and McConnell are a two-man echo harmonic echo chamber that just keeps getting louder and louder while all the idiots stick their heads in and scream in joy as it melts their brains.

It reminds me of the time that Trump challenged Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to an IQ test.

This checks out. I work with some older people who do exactly the same thing. I’ve discussed it with them and they simply do not care to conform to professional standards. They have their way and everyone else can get used to it.

Whoever picked Tillerson for Secretary of State must have been a supreme idiot then!

#theResistance is a sham designed as cover & future deniability re terrible across-the-board policies the wealthy & poor (voting schlubs) of the GOP/Republican biosphere favor & foist upon the American Public & World at large. 

Tillerson may be an awful person, but you do not become the CEO of ExxonMobil if you are dumb as a rock. If the Trump Organization was a publicly traded company, he wouldn't last a week as CEO. 

Tillerson to lawmakers: “I understand and appreciate the critical role that Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch plays in our constitutional system”

You can be all but assured that anybody Trump is calling “dumb” is someone Trump KNOWS is smarter than he is, and his ego just can’t handle it.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that these tweets are coming from the president and not that lazy, incompetent co-worker that everybody has and nobody likes. The one who spends the entire lunch hour listening to Rush Limbaugh in their car. 

It’s deliberate

Dammit Jim! He’s a rocket surgeon, not a brainiac!

My grandfather was the head of the FHA in a major city and developed/ran programs that were lauded throughout the country and written about in books as examples of how government can be a force for good. He was a wonderful man and never had a hint of scandal. Of course, when a Republican administration took over in…

This is what Republicans have always done. They put unqualified morons into government posts who neglect their duties, and then sit back and whine about how inefficient and ineffective government is to rile up their equally moronic base.

I don’t know whether Carson got “owned into the sun” or whatever, but watching that clip was infuriating. His smug condescension was entirely misplaced. Here he is, entirely unqualified for the job except that he is black and the agency has “Urban” in its name, perfectly willing to take a job he has no qualifications…