[johnforbes]

President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it hired Melissa Hodgman to lead the agency as its acting director of the Division of Enforcement last week.

“Melissa’s dedication to investor protection, broad experience in the Division, and proven track record of collaboration and creative problem solving make her ideally suited to this role,” SEC Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee celebrated in a statement. “As Associate Director, Melissa has overseen a wide range of complex and programmatically important matters, and has been a leading voice in the Division on critical issues of diversity, hiring, and labor-management relations.”

Hodgman, according to the agency press release, has been with the SEC since 2008 as a longtime bureaucrat engaging in a wide range of litigation. Hodgman is also married to another, better-known longtime Washington bureaucrat, Peter Strzok, made famous for his role in the FBI’s deep-state Crossfire Hurricane operation, which featured a witch hunt investigation that sought to incriminate President Donald Trump.

Before being fired from the FBI, Strzok rose to prominence when it was revealed that Strzok had conspired with an FBI colleague-turned-mistress over the course of the investigation, as they tried to oust the elected president. Text messages that emerged in the summer of 2018 from an Office of Inspector General’s report revealed the two began conspiring the summer before Trump even won the November election. Page resigned from the FBI, only to later be hired by MSNBC, while Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia investigation.

[Clownkicker]

The differernce in all these cases is that those people are qualified for their jobs. You may not like them, but they are qualified. (In case johnforbes doesn't know, actually working at the SEC for twelve years is one qualification for the job.)

Unlike Trump's even more partisan rewards of giving jobs to totally unqualified partisan supporters who knew nothing about the jobs they were given and ultimately were fired by the busload and replaced by even more unqualified partisan supporters.

Of course, johnforbes' apparent hypocrisy over this subject may simple be that he just fell off a turnip truck and isn't even aware of the Republicans doing far worse things to reward partisanship. That might explain why johnforbes so closely resembles "Mr. Potato Head" (or is that "Mrs. Potato Head"? Catch johnny's performance at your local Texas drag club to find out.)