Charles P. Pierce, blogger for Esquire, is one of my favorite writers. He has a knack for getting right to the point with pithy phrases and colorful images.
In this post, he calls out a few of the unsavory profiteers in the Trump administration, starting with Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt, who have a taste for first-class travel on the taxpayers’ dime.
Then he gets to DeVos, and he skewers her for abandoning the Department of Ecucation’s Obligation to protec college students who are victims of fraud by for-profit “universities” like Trump University.
DeVos’s spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill defends DeVos’ indefensible actions, as usual.
Pierce writes:
Where do they find these embarrassingly bot-like public liars? How does one “provide oversight” beyond doing investigations? As to Ms. Hill’s assurances that the presence of so many former higher-ed scamsters in the department had no influence in the decision, well, we are once again up against the most serious ontological question about this administration: How many foxes do there have to be before the henhouse becomes a foxhouse?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
She’s reprehensible. To think our tax dollars pay her salary is disgusting.
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He has been very good at dealing with people like DeVos; he has done a great job of exposing the corrupt crew that Scott Walker brought into the state government in Wisconsin, calling Governor Walker’s jobs creation agency, if memory serves, as a “rats’ nest of patronage and incompetence.” His appositive for Governor Walker is “goggle-eyed homunculus.”
Perfect!
And I loved his book “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.” Indeed, I highly recommend it for, if nothing else, his reporting on the Terry Schiavo affair, which is scabrously funny while respecting the tragedy of her condition and the end of her life.
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Devos is as stern as they come and she will take the abuse from all sides… it does not matter to her. What matters to her is to not be humiliated by Trump firing her and sending her to the abyss with her tail between her legs.
No Devos is set on sticking it out no matter how bad and she will continue to take the crap and embarrass herself as long as she does not get a public firing. Oh yeah the kids, well Betsy could give two craps about he kids. I mean Betsy will put on the mid western smirk and tell us about how kids should have this and how kids and parents should have that – but really we all know that devos is just about hate. Hate in the sense of her hatred for teacher unions and anyone making a decent salary and belonging to a union and seeking a better livelihood of compensation.
No, Betsy is determined to make the lives of hard working teachers a misery while using her “kids” as the pawns to get the job done. This post sounds cruel but it really is a deduction of the facts that devos has presented to the professionals in the business and we aunt buy it betsy. Soon Betsy will be a sorry forgotten person and her “legacy” will be of shame and disaster. Sorry betsy but im just sayin
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While I do think Betsy has some concern for her earthly boss – and is remarkably good at staying on his good side considering how many of her colleagues have failed at that – I don’t think her concern for Trump is as great as her concern for her heavenly boss. She’s on a mission from God.. It’s just that right now, God is telling her that working for Trump is the best way to carry out His mission. How better to privatize the nation’s schools and turn them all into religious schools cranking out God’s army?
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So glad to be bashing Betsy at this moment. The quote from her 2018 commencement speaks mountains. “Embrace the mess… YOUR life won’t always unfold according to plan. I’m reminded of the bad son at the Passover Sedar who uses “your” instead of “our.” And let’s hear it for Tim Cook. “The question we ask ourselves is not “what can we do?” but “what should be do?”
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Wondering out loud: I wonder what would happen to Betsy if someone threw water on her.
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