The Flunky Nominees Just Keep A-Coming

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There’s something to be said about an Administration in meltdown, a group so toxic that no one with a real reputation or genuine set of professional credentials is willing to hop aboard the Runaway Train. This has been demonstrated repeatedly with a number of nominees, even the Trumpster’s legal team, 3rd tier at best.

And now we have yet another embarrassment: the candidate for leading the Indian Health Services Agency. Robert Weaver, a 39-year old member of Quapaw Tribe claims he is qualified to head the agency serving 2 million Native Americans in 26 hospitals and clinics with a budget of roughly $6 billion. His resume’ indicated a history of supervisory and management positions from 1997-2006 at St John’s Medical Center, Joplin, MO.

Only problem?

No one recalls the dude working at the hospital in anything beyond an entrance-level capacity. As for his employment records? Well, coincidentally both his personal records and those of the hospital were destroyed by the tornado that ripped through Joplin in 2011.

There’s also some question about his educational qualifications. As in, did he ever graduate from Southern Missouri State University with a major in International Business. Or why a business degree would substitute for a medical degree, a requirement for former Agency heads.

Oh, happy days!

These people really have no shame.

Full article from WJS can be found here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-nominee-to-lead-indian-health-services-faces-claims-of-misrepresentation-1515170335

[Historic NY]

1. Produce his W-2's or his IRS tax records.

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2. You would think, right?

Instead, there's a whole bunch of flapping and sputtering about how dare anyone try to diminish the candidate's veracity or ruin his reputation.

It occurred to me that Weaver himself may genuinely want to help the agency. According to the article he had medical issues himself as a kid. So, he may feel he has a vested interest through experience and ethnic identity. I would really question the people who have convinced him he's qualified to run a $6 billion agency. Is it setting someone up for failure, perhaps? Don't know.

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3. Reminds me of all the Liberty U. grads hired by W's DOJ.

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4. How am I going to explain the missing documents ... ?

from the UK TV show 'Yes, Minister':

James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. {hands over memo}

James Hacker: {reads memo} This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...

James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

James Hacker: {reads} Some records which went astray in the move to London and others when the War Office was incorporated in the Ministry of Defence, and the normal withdrawal of papers whose publication could give grounds for an action for libel or breach of confidence or cause embarrassment to friendly governments.

James Hacker: That's pretty comprehensive. How many does that normally leave for them to look at?

James Hacker: How many does it actually leave? About a hundred?... Fifty?... Ten?... Five?... Four?... Three?... Two?... One?... Zero?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Minister.

(Source: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes)

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5. LOL

Sounds like a good fit!

Or maybe the dog ate it.