GOP Congresswoman Blames Deep State For Ben Carsons $31,000 Dining Set

[packman]

Source: The Daily Beast

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) appeared to blame the nefarious “Deep State” for ordering a costly dining set for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson.

During a recent appearance on Talk! Of the Town, an upstate New York local radio show, the New York Republican was asked about the decision to buy a $31,000 dining room set for Carson’s office last year. Tenney told the hosts that the “Ben Carson story is so misunderstood” before pointing to a no-named staffer of cryptic origin as the culprit.

“First of all, I like Ben Carson a lot. I think he’s really trying to do a great job there. But his staffer, one of his key people, was in my office the other day to talk about some of the housing issues that we have in our region and we were talking about that and he said ‘you know, that’s the most…” Tenney said trailing off.

“Somebody in the Deep State, it was not one of his people apparently, ordered a table, like a conference room table or whatever it was for a room,” Tenney continued. “And that’s what the cost was. Ben Carson tried to—he said “you know how hard it is to turn it back because of the way that the procurement happens?”


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-the-deep-state-is-responsible-for-ordering-ben-carsons-dining-set

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Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and The Deep State.... Well, guess it's better than the devil made him do it.

[Laurian]

1. This one is a special kind of crazy.

A few weeks back, she was ridiculed for saying mass shooters were all Democrats.

[packman]

2. Yes, that's the same wackadoodle

[Angry Dragon]

3. they make up lies as they go

how come they never have any names nor facts to back them up??

[flibbitygiblets]

4. Good. I'm glad she's showing how ridiculous this "deep state" BS is. The new "fake news".

R's are good at coming up with small-worded catchphrases for their stable of sheeple to parrot back, whenever confronted with inconvenient truths.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "Somebody in the Deep State, it was not one of his people apparently"

Wasn't it his wife who picked it out?

Ben Carson Blames His Wife For $31,000 Dining Set Purchase For HUD Office

After reports surfaced earlier this month that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spent $31,000 of taxpayer funds on a dining set for his government office, the former Republican presidential candidate said he was “as surprised as anyone to find out” about the lavish purchase.

That’s because Carson’s wife was responsible for the decision, the secretary said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

After staffers gave Carson a few options for tables, the secretary said he “left it with [his] wife” and asked her to “help choose something.”

“The next thing that I, quite frankly, heard about it was that this $31,000 table had been bought,” he told a House Appropriations subcommittee. “I said, ‘What the heck is that all about?’ I investigated, I immediately had it canceled. Not that we don’t need the furniture, but I thought that that was excessive.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-wife-31k-dining-set_us_5ab153b0e4b008c9e5f20794

[Zorro]

25. It was actually picked out by someone in the Derp State

Derp State = Republican-led government.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. Yes.

Typical GOP misspelling plus the "r" is next to the "e" on a keyboard!

[Leghorn21]

6. Nope!:

“When asked about the table's purchase, Carson said he ultimately left the decision to his wife, Candy Carson, after narrowing down a few options. "The next thing that I, quite frankly, heard about it was that this $31,000 table had been bought,” he told lawmakers.”

- USA Today

I guess Mrs. Carson could be a Deep Stater, since it’s a big tent and all - ?

[radical noodle]

21. That's more than my new car cost!

No excuse for that. Deep state my aunt sue.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Whatever happened to the "Party of Personal Responsibility"?

How many excuses have they come up with so far? How many different people -- or make believe entities (The Deep State) -- have they laid the blame on? Whatever happened to "the buck stops here"?

[Gore1FL]

8. I would like for the Deep State to buy me a riding lawn mower, please.

One with leaf-vacuuming would be awesome. It doesn't have to cost $31,000.

[dsharp88]

9. Holy crap, Republicans are freaking STUPID! n't

[Bleacher Creature]

10. How does she keep figuring out our plans???

Someone is talking, and it needs to stop!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

11. OMG - does she even know what that phrase means? nt

[riversedge]

18. Most likely she meant to say Hillary did it.

[lordsummerisle]

12. This is disturbing

that the "deep state" can now be used as a scapegoat for virtually anything.

[backtoblue]

16. + 1 nt

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Support her Democratic opponent: Anthony Brindisi

https://brindisiforcongress.com/


https://twitter.com/abrindisiny

[DBoon]

14. I baked a dozen chocolate chip cookies, then suddenly they were gone!

The deep state must have stolen them.

The deep state is all-powerful, nefarious, and loves cookies

[Initech]

15. Well they do love an invisible boogeyman.

[Grammy23]

17. So what does she say now that

Dr. Ben has pretty much thrown his wife under the bus for the selection and purchase of the dining table? Will she pull an Emily Lietella and say, “Never mind.”???

[NBachers]

19. I just donated to her Democratic opponent, Anthony Brindisi.

New York's 22nd District occupies a pretty big swath of central New York. Here's where it's located:

https://brindisiforcongress.com/about-22nd-district You can donate through his Brindisi for Congress website,

or, donate here at ActBlue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/brindisi-for-congress-1

Republican Claudia Tenney has passed her political expiration date. Let's make her one of the "must-defeats." I think she's ripe for replacement.

[Solly Mack]

20. They all went from the basement to government.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Carson now blames his wife for ordering it, contradicting Tenney. . . . nt

[Marcuse]

23. Tenney had staff write fake letters to the editor of the local paper.

http://www.uticaod.com/news/20170915/tenney-staffer-used-false-name-to-write-letters-to-editor

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Tenney claims many mass shooters "end up being Democrats". . . . nt

[dameatball]

26. Buying over priced coffee tables has always been one of the Deep States most effective tools.....:)

[Motley13]

28. they are trying to blame it on Obama

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. Reporting on this is a job for Wonkette:

Oh, Gideon. Don’t you see that if Deep State operatives can fabricate the Trump-Russia hoax out of thin air, threaten an innocent dachshund, and mysteriously order dining room furniture against the will of a cabinet secretary (and brilliant neurosurgeon!), then forging emails would be as nothing to these people?

Oh, sure, maybe in that House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday, Carson himself said that he’d actually had very little input into the selection of the dinette, and was astonished by the prices he’d seen in a catalog, but the reality was that “I left it with my wife.” But can we know for sure Carson is able to speak freely? Who knows what mysterious Deep State forces might be compelling him to shift the blame to someone else, which members of this administration would never stoop to?

Besides, in the radio interview, Tenney had plenty more to say. One host asked if nepotism may have played a role, since Candy Carson was involved in the furniture deliberation. Now that’s just silly, Tenney explained:

“Nepotism is when you hire a family member,” Tenney corrected them. “What it is is that people in the Deep State who’ve been there, they might be—they say ‘hey we’re going to buy this because this is what somebody else did.’

“I know that Ben Carson did not order that table,” Tenney continued. “It has nothing to do with him. He comes from, you know, poverty.”

Ergo, he is incapable of making bad decisions in an administration where other cabinet members are racking up millions of dollars in jet rides, building Cones of Silence in their offices, or blowing amazing amounts on new doors. You have to go for the obvious explanation: Somebody’s setting up Ben Carson.

https://wonkette.com/631556/who-made-ben-carsons-wife-buy-that-31000-dinette-set-the-deep-state-obviously