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Jack Ohman, Mike Luckovich, Adam Zyglis, Michael de Adder, Nick Anderson, Pat Bagley, Chris Britt, Ed Hall, David Horsey, Steve Sack, Jim Morin

No One—Other Than The McTurtle Staff—Has Seen The Senate Version of GOPDon’tCare

Senator Mike Lee of Utah is one of the Republicans creating the new Senate version of GOPDon’tCare that will replace Obamacare, but guess what? He hasn’t seen it; yup, he’s on the team but has yet to see the bill that is supposed to be released, maybe, tomorrow, and then voted on quickly before the Senate gets yet another vacation.

It appears that Mitch McTurtle McConnell is having his staff ... not Senators ... write the bill in secret because his granny panties are in a wad that the Democrats wrote Obamacare in secret.

Okay ... except; it wasn’t one Democrat writing that healthcare proposal, and the Democrats gave the Republicans more than a lunch hour to read it. Majority Leader McTurtle will release a "discussion draft" this week that will go to the Senate floor for a vote "likely next week."

But even Republican Mike Lee—again, a member of the team charged with writing the proposal—says a week or so to examine the bill isn’t enough time, and has criticized the way McTurtle’s secrecy.

"Even though we thought we were going to be in charge of writing a bill within this working group, it’s not being written by us. It’s apparently being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership in the Senate. So if you’re frustrated by the lack of transparency in this process, I share your frustration. I share it wholeheartedly.”

And Mike Lee isn’t the only one in the party annoyed by the “process” ...

“I’m very eager to see the language, I don’t think it gives enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill, but we’ll see when it comes out.”—Maine Senator Susan Collins

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch—the Senate Finance Chairman—says even he doesn’t know what’s in the bill.

And  Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a key moderate holdout, said McTurtle best not hope buy off her vote with an Alaska-specific solution:

"This is like a really big deal to get this right for the country. Let’s just say that they do something that’s so Alaska-specific just to quote, ‘get me.’ Then you have a nationwide system that doesn’t work. That then comes crashing down and Alaska’s not able to kind of keep it together on its own."

Even Kentucky Senator Rand Paul—who hates Obamacare because it’s called Obamacare—says the bill should have been debated "in the open" and that, by using a one-party approach, the bill is already set up to fail.

But, it was Arizona Senator John ‘Get Off’a My Lawn’ McCain, who, when asked if he’d seen the bill, gave the very best response:

"No, nor have I met any American that has. I’m sure the Russians have been able to hack in and gotten most of it."

For his part, McTurtle, is playing coy; when he was asked how the Senate measure would differ from the House version, he replied:

"I wouldn’t want to compare it to the House bill. It’ll be different, take a different approach."

See, even he doesn’t know; but he does know, or at least that that "everyone will have adequate time to take a look at it" even though, again, the measure is being negotiated in private and won’t go through any committee hearings.

How’s that for transparency?

Need more? Since Republicans control the Senate, 52-48, they would need 60 votes to keep Democrats from blocking the measure, but they plan to use an expedited procedure to pass this unseen bill with as few as 50 votes, plus a tie-breaker from Vice President Mike Pence.

This week the Democrats started putting up “procedural roadblocks” to slow down routine Senate business to keep this unseen bill from getting a vote.

But if GOPDon’tCare is put on the floor the Democrats will propose quite a few amendments to try to prevent it from passing in the hopes that Republicans, heading home for their latest recess, will have to face their constituents.

And it isn’t that the Democrats don’t want healthcare; nor do they wish to keep all of Obamacare. They would simply like to see the bill, and want We The People to know if the Senate version will screw as many people as the House version, and make as many millionaires richer.

The House measure would cut Medicaid by $834 billion over a decade, repeal $664 billion of Obamacare’s tax increases on the wealthy and the health-care industry, and end requirements that individuals get health insurance and that most employers provide it. It would replace Obamacare subsidies with tax credits based primarily on age, and let states get waivers from some of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the House bill would take away healthcare from 23 million Americans.

And Mitch McTurtle wants to put forth a bill that no one has seen?

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Random Musings

First, a little back story that I’ve shared before ... When we lived in Miami Carlos’ boss took his entire staff, and their loved ones, to a Marlins game. When Carlos asked if I wanted to go, I said Yes immediately; I used to go to Giants and Dodgers games at Candlestick Park as a kid with my family and I love being at a baseball game.

Carlos? He’d never seen a game before. 

So, we’re at the game, the Marlins are at back; three outs later the other team—I can’t remember who they were playing—was up and soon enough they were also out.

Carlos stands up and says, “That was a good game,” and starts to leave.

I say, “That was the first inning; there are at least eight more.”

Carlos, “But both sides played.”

Cut to this week, and we’re watching Jeopardy and there is an answer about baseball, and which player gets the win when their team bests the other.

“What is a pitcher?” I ask ... correctly.

Carlos, bless his heart, says, “Is he the one that throws the ball?

Well, someone doesn’t want anyone to know his business ... President-elect _____ has ordered all members of his transition team sign a code of ethics with a pretty significant lobbying ban, but they were also ordered to sign a non-disclosure agreement to make certain they keep all of their work confidential.

Yeah, a _____ White House is gonna be soooo transparent.

Let the impeachment begin ...

Leah Remini, actress and ex-Scientologist, has a new show on A&E about the “religion,” and she’s telling all kinds of secrets and interviewing all kinds of folks who left the cult.

On Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, she talks about how those who break the rules in the cult, no matter how high up—well, except for the untouchable Little Tommy Cruise—the punishments are severe. One woman, who was in the cult for nearly thirty years, began asking questions and she was sent to a camp where guards stood outside her room in the barracks and guards stood outside the barracks and guards stood near the barbed wire fence surrounding the “camp.” In the camp, these cult-members who disappointed the leadership, AKA David Miscavige, Tommy's BFF, were forced to do manual labor for up to twelve or fourteen hours a day.

Imagine the outrage if, say, the Catholic Church, treated those who chose to leave their faith that way. But the Co$ is all about money and secrecy and lies, so no one knows what goes on in there.

Check out the show on A&E; it’s fascinating.

Okay Gays, and some of you Straights, put down the razors ... but don’t put ‘em down there.

Apparently, people who opt to change their, um, “carpets” for “hardwoods” or “linoleum” at least once in their lifetimes are nearly twice as likely to have had at least one STD. 

“Extreme groomers”—those who shave all their pubic hair off at least 11 times a year—are more than four times as likely to have had an infection. 

So, while you may like a smooth playing surface, apparently it comes with a risk.

So, earlier this week President-elect _____ bashed Boeing on Twitter, declaring the company’s costs “out of control,” and saying the government should cancel an order with the company for two new Air Force One jets. _____ said the costs were over $4 billion which, were that true, would have been out of control, but the costs were roughly $170 million, far less than the _____Lie mentioned.

But also odd, is that the Tweetsplosion by _____ came within an hour after the Chicago Tribune published  a column where Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg criticized _____’s trade rhetoric against China.

President-elect _____ also went after United Steelworkers 1999 President Chuck Jones who claims the Twitter-in-Chief-To-Be "lied his ass off" about the terms of the deal to keep Carrier manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Yup, this will be a _____ presidency where he spends all his time Tweeting about the people who are mean to him.

And with so many people worldwide not liking this orange glob of Play-Doh—emphasis on the Doh—he’ll be spending all his time Tweeting. And that might actually be a good thing because he’ll never get any real work done.

Bishop Daniel Obinim, a homophobic preacher in Ghana, says he can, um, increase the size of a man’s penis using a ‘massage ritual’.Yes, the homophobe places his hands on a man’s crotch and rubs it vigorously to make the penis grow—though oddly, once his rubbing ritual stops, the penis goes back to its original size.

He thinks it’s magic ... and he also thinks he’s not the biggest queer of ‘em all.

Here he is, at, um, work:

Chris Evans is hot ... and political ... and has a good sense of humor because he obviously doesn’t live in Dumbfuckistan.

So sorry Pat.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has conceded to Attorney General Roy Cooper in the state’s gubernatorial race.

Finally, we can consider him #Flushed

I found it especially ironic that President-elect _____ had another SNL Tweetsplosion after the show aired a skit about how much he Tweets.

The man doesn’t get it.

Remember last year when greedy motherf**king asshat Martin Shkreli bought Turing Pharmaceuticals and almost immediately increased the price of Daraprim—used to treat certain types of malaria as well as toxoplasmosis, a rare and life-threatening infection—from $13.50 a tablet to $750.00 a tablet?

Well, a group students in Australia, ages 16 and 17, tried to recreate the drug molecule in their school laboratory and they succeeded, making the drug for just $2.00 a pill.

On Twitter Shkreli dismissed the student’s achievement:

“How is that showing anyone up? Almost any drug can be made at small scale for a low price."

One student, Leonard Milan, took Shkreli down by saying:

“If you follow his overpriced method using toxic chemicals in an industrial lab it’s easy, but the fact that we were able to substitute some really toxic gasses with simple school-available chemicals and do it so cheaply demonstrates the absurdity of some of his justifications for the price. “I think Martin is an attention-seeking businessman, the way he responds to every Twitter post made threatening him, bragging about how he can do whatever he wants reflects this.”

Douche.

Yes, this is a Tweet from me, but it makes me giggle every time I see so I chose it for this weeks’ win.

Sue me, I’m funny.

That's Our Nikki: Blackmailing The People For A Vote

I know the election for Governor isn’t until November, but right now the race is a virtual dead-heat between the incumbent, the oh-so-transparent Republican Nikki Haley, and the challenger, Democratic state Senator, and Smallville resident, Vincent Sheheen. And if Nikki keeps pulling stunts like this, well, that may change in a way she won’t like.

This week Haley announced that she has a plan to repair the state’s roads and bridges with what she calls a “road map for future infrastructure funding, and that it won’t include a tax increase” but she isn’t saying what her plan entails until January; after the election.

See, it’s like this: elect me and I’ll tell you my plan to fix the roads and it won’t cost you a dime; or, don’t elect me and my plan goes away and the roads don’t get fixed and you’ll all suffer.

It’s either a giant lie — go figure, it’s Haley — or else she’s blackmailing the people of South Carolina into voting for her. But that’s our Nikki … so transparent.

Sidenote: while Nikki won’t talk of her plan, except to tell us that we won’t be paying for it, Vincent Sheheen has pointed out any number of ways to fund road and bridge repair, including long-term bonds, dedicating general fund surpluses for infrastructure and increasing vehicle registration fees.

And I know some folks will hate this idea, that they actually have to pay to have the roads and bridges upon which they travel, repaired and strengthened, but at least it’s a plan and not some “I have a dream but I won’t tell you unless you vote me” political ploy of a desperate women trying to keep her job.

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That's Our Nikki: Haley Named To Worst Governor's List

We sure know how to pick ‘em down here in South Carolina.

Our very own governor, Nikki Haley, was just named by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [CREW] as one of the worst governors in America. Yippee for us!

CREW says Haley has undermined transparency in state government by withholding details about her outside employment while she served in the state legislature and shielding her communication with her staff.

For much of her term, Haley has faced an ethics investigation and a lawsuit related to her employment while serving as a state representative.

An ethics complaint filed in 2012 alleged that Haley illegally lobbied on behalf of Lexington Medical Center, where she worked for nearly two years, and solicited donations to the hospital’s foundation from lobbyists and companies with business before the state, including payday lenders to whom Haley, as governor, has maintained strong political ties.

Haley also earned more than $40,000 in consulting fees from an engineering firm and then participated in a vote related to the company; she disclosed those earnings only when she was forced to because she was running for governor. But, after initially finding probable cause that a violation occurred, the House Ethics Committee cleared Haley of all charges in June 2012.

Additionally, Nikki Haley has continued her predecessor, Mark Sanford’s, legally dubious practice of only archiving emails between herself  and the public; her internal staff emails have all been deleted, which some attorneys have said destroys essential public records. In an effort to explain all the deleted emails, Nikki has made the implausible claim about her contact with her staff; for example, she wants us to believe that she and her chief of staff did not communicate via email for an entire month in 2011.

She has also faced accusations of avoiding use of her state-issued cellphone and only conducting state business on a personal cellphone.

Totally transparent.

In March 2011 report in The State found that 26 of the 59 people that Governor Haley appointed to state boards and commissions were donors to her campaign, and had contributing at least $74,000 in total.

Between November 2010 and October 2011, Haley took at least 17 flights on the private planes owned by people with potential business before the state, including the chief executive officer of a pharmaceutical company that received $4.5 million in state funds.

CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan: 

“Given the array of ethics investigations into Governor Haley’s conduct, her efforts to conceal records from the public suggest there may be further misdeeds. The failure of investigators to identify wrongdoing by Gov. Haley speaks more to South Carolina’s weak ethics laws than to Gov. Haley’s probity.”

That’s our Nikki. Governor; for now. 

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Dear Nikki Haley: Grow The F**k Up

Nikki Haley is supposedly one of the GOP's bright, shiny stars--she's even been given a chance to speak at the RNC this week--but there are many of us in South Carolina who find this questionable. See, Nikki is just the kind of politician the GOP--in the wake of Todd Akin's idiocy--should avoid. She's a tyrant and a bully, and, well, a liar; if she doesn't get her way, she foot stomps and pouts and cries foul.

She's.....she's.....she's Mittsy, in a dress.

After the Mark "Hiking The Appalachian Trail So I Can Schtup My Mistress In Rio" Sanford debacle, Nikki Haley ran for Guv'nah of South Carolina on a platform of transparency. We would never question her, she said; her office would be open, she said.

She lied. And when people question her lies, Nikki gets pissy. Again, like Mittsy.

A week or so ago, Governor Nikki Haley and Attorney General Alan Wilson unveiled a package of ethics reform proposals at a news conference in Charleston. The first reporter to speak after the governor opened up the floor to questions was The State's Gina Smith and as she finished her question, Haley shot back, "Gina, I am not going to answer any of your questions," before moving on to other reporters in the room.

Wow. Why so harsh Nikki? Well, as with most high school mean girls, and Nikki surely has the demeanor of a mean girl, she took to Facebook to respond to why she refused to answer any questions by Smith:

"In response to my refusal to answer Gina Smith's question today; she is the same report that 1) wrote a Front Page, Above the Fold story about me being indicted, with no truth what so ever. 2) She went on to write a story about my 14 year old daughter without having the facts, against the urging of SLED Chief Keel that said it was unprecedented to write about a governor's child knowing the safety concerns. Respect is a two way street."

Um, Nikki, you're a public official, dear, and reporters write the stories the public needs to hear. There was an indictment, though it was never handed down, but it was a story. As for the story about your child, she didn't write about your child, she wrote about you using your influence as governor, to get your child a job.

Take it slow Nikki. You get yourself all riled up. See, this isn't the first time Haley has clashed with a reporter in public. Back in 2011, Haley referred to Renee Dudley, a Post and Courier reporter, as a "little girl" during a radio interview. The comment was in response to Dudley's reporting on expenses incurred during a European trip by Haley and other state officials.

Haley later said she regretted her choice of words.

Well, that makes me wonder, why act like a little girl yourself, Nikki, and refuse to answer a reporters’ questions because you don't like what they've said about you in the past. Why not rise above and answer a question? Because, like Mittsy, and most of the GOP, you don't feel any need to respond to questions that are too hard, or too deep.

So, so transparent.

That's Our Nikki: She Has One Of Her Friends Give Her Daughter A State job

Our beloved [?] Guv’nah, the dishonorable Nikki Haley has seen to it that at least one South Carolinian has gotten a job in these tough economic times.

Her 14-year-old daughter is working in the State House gift shop, which is run by the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, a state agency whose director, Duane Parrish, is appointed by Haley.

She appoints a man who hires her children.

That’s our Nikki, working for all of South Carolina, starting first with her friends and family.

Parks, Recreation and Tourism officials have referred all questions by South Carolina newspaper, The State, about the teen’s job, including whether or not it was in the agency’s budget, to the governor’s office, but, not so surprisingly, Nikki Haley isn’t talking about it.

Instead, her office is chastising the newspaper for even asking the question: “The State newspaper ... should be ashamed for printing details of a 14 year old’s life and whereabouts, against the wishes of her parents and the request of the chief of SLED, who is ultimately responsible for her security. We have nothing more to say.”

Foot stomp. Head snap.

But then, because even her own party wondered WTF she was doing, Nikki pulled a Mittsy and did The Step back, giving some of the information requested; although she didn’t speak to The State, she gave her tidbits of uselessness to The Post and Courier of Charleston

Haley’s spokesbot, Rob Godfrey, told the paper that Haley’s daughter usually works 20 to 25 hours a week and is paid $8 an hour, the same as all entry-level workers at the gift shop. He also said the hours of other gift shop workers were not cut to accommodate the daughter’s position.

A Parks, Recreation and Tourism spokesman says that Haley’s daughter is one of seven to 12 workers who clean and stock shelves, and admits that the job was never advertised, calling that standard procedure for seasonal positions.

How do you hire folks unless you advertise the availability of a position? Or, do you just send a list to Nikki and she finds someone she knows to fill the space?

Haley’s office has not responded to questions about nepotism.

State law prohibits public officials from causing the employment of a family member to a position they supervise or manage, but, and here’s the glitch, while Haley does not supervise the gift shop, she does supervises the agency that operates it.

Dick Harpootlian, chairman of the S.C. Democratic Party says the issue isn’t about the daughter it’s about Nikki’s continued lack of judgment and being a complete moron.

Okay, maybe that last bit was just me.

Harpootlian said: “You don’t use your position to get your daughter a job. It’s not about the daughter. It’s about lack of judgment by the governor [and the] appearance of impropriety doesn’t seem to bother the governor.”

Of course not, because she doesn’t believe in accountability. Or transparency.

And yet, in South Carolina—where we are blessed with the nation’s fourth-highest unemployment rate and a governor who boasts of cutting state spending—Nikki’s hiring of her own daughter does raise questions of favoritism.

And, when, during an impromptu press conference last week, Robert Kittle, a WSPA-TV reporter from Spartanburg, asked Haley about her daughter working at the gift shop, and she snapped back, “Y’all are not allowed to talk about my children.”

But Kittle pressed on, asking Haley if the story really wasn’t about nepotism and she snapped, again: “None of that is true,” Nikki whined. “That’s what makes me angry. Not only is this a story about my daughter, it’s a story that is based on false facts and none of that is true. Do not attack my children. Do not even talk about my children.”

Kittle said the issue wasn’t about the daughter but about what Nikki had done.

 “I’m not going to talk about it anymore,” Haley said. “My children are off limits.”

Unless they need a job, apparently, but….

That’s our Nikki!

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That's Our Nikki: She's SO Transparent

I remember when Nikki Haley was running for guv'nah of the great state of South Carolina, in the shadow of Mark "Hiking The Appalachian Trail AKA Schtupping My Mistress" Sanford, and she said she would change politics here. She would be open and honest--yeah, a big stretch, I know--and, above all, transparent.

But Nikki has a different view of what it means to be transparent, which means most of us have changed how we view her.

Haley is being investigated by a House Ethics Committee because there is a belief, by many, that she illegally lobbied the state while acting as a state representative from Lexington County. Not a real stretch, Nikki is about what’s best for Nikki and screws everyone else, making her, in my mind any way, Mark Sanford in a dress.

But now, as this ethics charge will not die, Nikki "I believe in transparency in government" Haley is to release some emails that are related to the investigation, and this, according to nearly every legitimate lawyer not on the Haley payroll, is an abuse of the law.

But that's our Nikki.

The Post and Courier newspaper down in Charleston says the paper asked for all the Haley administration's emails relating to this ongoing and going and going House Ethics Committee investigation, but Nikki Haley's attorney says the requested documents are exempt from disclosure because they represent the work product of a legal counsel.

In other words, Nikki has something to hide. I mean, if you were accused of being unethical wouldn't you want to prove the allegations false by doing whatever you could? Not our Nikki. She turns tail and hides.

But media attorney Jay Bender says the attorney-client privilege only applies to the governor herself, not her staff, and calls the Haley administration's actions another example of a public body overreaching to hide records that should be public.

I call it Nikki Haley being very transparent. So much so that you can see right through her.

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That's Our Nikki: Lying On Job Applications

Let's be clear: South Carolina Senator Vincent Sheheen--who, for the record, lives in Smallville--lost his bid to become South Carolina's governor. Narrowly.Lost. And that lost must ache a bit, so it's no surprise that he attacks Nikki Haley every chance he gets. What isn't surprising, however, is that every attack, every criticism he has of Transparent Nikki, is spot on.

Speaking to a group of Spartanburg Democrats, he reiterated the story floating around the state that then-state Representative lied on her application for a job at Lexington Medical Center. Sheheen is the first prominent South Carolina elected official to directly accuse Haley of deceit on the controversial application.

Nikki Haley's spokesmoron, Rob Godfrey, responded with a typical non-response to Vincent Sheheen via email: "It's sad to see that Senator Sheheen hasn't gotten over his defeat."

Oh, honey, he's over it. He's just calling out more and more of Nikki Haley's lies and deceits. He isn't over that.

Sheheen's accusations against Haley came during a wider series of remarks casting Nikki Haley as just the latest scandal-plagued Republican involved in a years-long wave of corruption in the state Capitol:

"What's happening in Columbia right now is that we are seeing corruption on a scale that we have not seen in the Legislature since Lost Trust and statewide in the last hundred years...Think about what's going on: House members arrested for criminal domestic violence, House members arrested for not paying their taxes, statewide officials going to jail for drug dealing a few years ago, a governor with over 60 ethics violations and a current governor who didn't pay her taxes either, who's holding secret meetings without letting the press know, lying on employment applications — that is what we've been reduced to in South Carolina."

Yes, we all know Nikki Haley has a problem paying her taxes, unless the state threatens to take her property, but what about that job application?

Vincent Sheheen:

"Either the governor's not telling the truth or somebody filled out her application...[and]...I think that it's hard to believe that she didn't fill out that application. I think any reasonable person wonders why she is making the kind of statements she has."

So, what about the job application? Well, on Nikki Haley's August 2008 application to become a fundraiser for the Lexington Medical Center, she listed her qualifications for the job--she had none--and her previous work experiences and salaries. Columbia newspaper, The State, reported that on Haley's application for the medical center position she stated she'd earned $125,000 a year, far more than the $22,000 she claimed on her Federal income Taxes.

In her efforts to be A Transparent Liar, Nikki Haley, and her Hounds Of Hell, have repeatedly denied that she provided the $125,000 figure on the application. And, to be fair, some pages of the application carry her signature, but the page regarding previous salary does not.

So, does that mean Nikki Haley fills out applications or does she have people do that for her? Or, does she partially fill out applications, and then have people fill out the rest for her so she can say she didn't lie?

Either way, one thing is transparent about Nikki Haley: she lies. Or she has someone lie for her.

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That's Our Nikki

Our governor, Nikki Haley, promised transparency in government. You know, no secrets, everything above board. No, um, hikes. But what I think she meant is that it will become transparent that she is out to do what's best for Nikki, not for the people of South Carolina.

Case in point: Nikki, as is her right as governor, has removed Darla Moore from the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, and replaced her with a man who donated $4,500 to Nikki Haley's gubernatorial campaign.

Like I said, that's her right. And her mouthpiece, er, spokesman, Rob Godfrey, said Moore was removed from the board a week ago, but damn the transparency, we'll keep it a secret for a week: "As is the case with many of our appointees, the governor looked for a fresh set of eyes to put in a critical leadership position –- a governor's appointee to the USC board."

Hmmm, sounds good, you know a fresh set of eyes. And those eyes belong to Lexington attorney Thomas Cofield.

Okay, an attorney will be on the Board of Trustees, replacing Darla Moore, who graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1975, and since 1998 has pledged more than $70 million to USC's business school because, as she says, she'd "like to see [USC] become once again a nationally-recognized business school" graduating the best and brightest minds in business.

She's out, and the campaign donor is in.

And on the very day that Nikki Haley announced that Moore had been removed from the Board of Trustees, news broke that  the Moore School's--named for Darla Moore--graduate international business program is once more the number two business program in theU.S.

But she's out.

Haley's surprise move has elicited strong reactions on both sides of the issue. While everyone understands that the governor has the right to do what she's done, many feel it was an insult to Darla Moore, who has given a lot of money to help the university. Well, maybe Darla Moore didn't give a lot of money to help Nikki Haley become the transparent governor that she is today.

Haley wrote on Facebook--how Sarah Palin of her--that: "Each governor deserves the chance to appoint board members that share his or her vision to a board. Being that there are 19 board seats, and that a governor has but two appointments, we believe it's entirely appropriate to put people in those slots who share our vision for the university."

I think she means someone who "shares my vision", not someone who has a proven vision for the university.

That's our Nikki.

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