New House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy… wants to kill the Export-Import Bank.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: the Export-Import Bank is squarely in the middle of things that I typically go rah-rah over out of a sense of solidarity with the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.  I can’t keep track of everything, after all*.  But apparently this is making people sit up and blink:

 House Majority Leader-elect Kevin McCarthy says Congress should let the Export-Import Bank expire, the biggest blow yet to the imperiled subsidy agency whose charter expires this fall.

On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked McCarthy if he agrees with “conservatives who say that the Export-Import Bank is a form of crony capitalism and it should be put out of business — allowed to expire.”

I forget who said this first**, but fear really is a wonderful motivator.

Moe Lane

*Yes, I am aware that the current situation with regard to global warming shows the fundamental flaw with that strategy.  Show me a way to handle the generalist/specialist problem that does not have a fundamental flaw, though.  🙂

**I think that it might have been from the Paranoia RPG.

7 thoughts on “New House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy… wants to kill the Export-Import Bank.”

  1. Yes, I am aware that the current situation with regard to global warming shows the fundamental flaw with that strategy.
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    Not following you there, Moe.

    1. We’ll see what he trades to keep ExIm open.
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      Ending some of the EPA’s foolish “boutique fuels” would, I think, be an acceptable trade.
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      Mew

  2. Thanks Uncle Milton!
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    Coupled with – Thanks to the people who voted for Congressman-Elect Brat!

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