Mick Mulvaney smells of engine oil, motorcycle leather, and the nethersweat of NeverTrumper wives.

Ace is going thermonuclear about this guy.  Be sure to read the comments.  As Breitbart used to say, they're the best on the net, and they live up to the billing here.

Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), told a Senate panel on Thursday that he's not legally bound to answer lawmakers' questions, only to appear before them, in comments meant to stress his agency's independence.

"While I have to be here by statute, I don't think I have to answer your questions," Mulvaney told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. "If you take a look at the actual statute that requires me to be here, it says that I 'shall appear' before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. And I'm here and I'm happy to do it."

Best part: Elizabeth Warren demands answers, and Mulvaney tells her to pound sand -- he invites her to experience some of the same frustration he felt when trying to get answers from a rogue agency entirely insulated from oversight by the people's representatives.

Flashback: Because the CFPB skims money from the companies it bullies, it is largely self-funding in the same way an armed street gang is self-funding. Yet they usually demand the government pour even additional taxpayer monies into this shakedown operation anyway.

When Mick Mulvaney had to request budgetary money, he asked for zero. Not for a zero percent increase. He asked for zero dollars, period. He literally zeroed out his own agency's budget!  That act alone should earn him everlasting fame among believers in small government and taunters of totalitarian wanna-be Democrat posers.

Here is the guy that made Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren cry sweet and salty tears of frustration.

Bonus!  Mick slaps the colossally ignorant Maxine Waters around.



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