What would possibly make someone think that former GOP candidate, former surgeon, and man who has a selfie with Jesus, Ben Carson, would be good at the helm of Housing and Urban Development?
Ben Carson has no background in government or housing policy. And that’s just fine with Republican senators responsible for vetting his nomination to lead the Housing and Urban Development Department.
Because in the Trump administration, being qualified for a position is disqualifying. Besides, Carson has medical experience.
Asked about Carson’s lack of experience in the agency’s areas of expertise, Hatch replied: “No, but he has medical experience … he’ll pick it up so fast their heads will be spinning.” …
“If you can get a brain surgeon that wants to run housing, that’s a good idea,” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
So … a guy that knows how to handle a skill-saw automatically knows how to handle the office in charge of fair housing, equal employment opportunity, urban planning, community development, housing loans, assistance to Native Americans, and hey, here’s one—lead paint abatement. That last one is sort of medical.
How much sense does “he’s smart, he’ll figure it out” make? Flip it around. If these guys were saying “well, he’s a world-class organizer and an expert on community planning, so I’m sure he’ll do great removing that frontal lobe glioma” would you climb on the table?
Just a reminder on Ben Carson’s incredible smartness.
“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Carson said in a 1998 commencement speech at Andrews University, unearthed by BuzzFeed. “Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big — when you stop and think about it, and I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time — to store that much grain.”
The interior volume of the Great Pyramid is somewhat larger than a Volkswagen Beetle. You couldn’t store enough in them to get the Duggar family through Thanksgiving, much less feed Egypt for seven years. But hey, expect Carson’s new line of single-family homes to be 300 feet tall and have walls 200 feet thick. Sure, they take up a lot of space, but you won’t have to rebuild for 4,000 years.
Carson, a famed neurosurgeon, is no stranger to controversy. He has made a string of incendiary comments in recent years. Carson has claimed that homosexuality is a choice, evolution is an idea encouraged by the devil and, most famously, Obamacare is “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.”
Oh, there are worse things, Ben. There are worse things. Like Carson’s idea of what “scientists” believe.
“And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for a reason. And various of scientists have said, ‘Well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they had special knowledge and that’s how they were —’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.
Yes. “Various of scientists” think that aliens built the pyramids.
Seriously. The department name of HUD has “urban” in it. In Trump-speak, urban means “black,” and Carson was the only name he could think of. Just admit it and move on.