Mike Mulvaney is my favorite person right now.

One of the golden rules of politics is: whatever you do to your opponents now, your opponents can do back to you when they gain power.

The Democrats spend the Obama years forgetting that.

Remember when Harry Reid removed the filibuster from the Senate for presidential nominations.  The so called “nuclear option.”

That bit them in the ass when Trump got elected.

Remember when the Democrats cheered when Obama said he “had a pen and a phone” and could executive order whatever he wanted?

Now they are pissed that Trump has a pen and a phone too.

The Democrats passed Dodd-Frank.  The language in the bill gave Congress little to no oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because Obama was president.

Then Congressman Mike Mulvaney protested at the time that having no Congressional control of the CFPB was a bad idea.  Now he is in charge of the agency and is making Senate Democrats eat their words.

Mulvaney, a conservative who was an outspoken critic of the bureau during his time as a congressman, told Warren in a letter sent Wednesday that the structure of the agency, which she helped design, shields him from accountability.

“I encourage you to consider the possibility that the frustration you are experiencing now, and that which I had a few years back, are both inevitable consequences of the fact that the Dodd-Frank… Act insulates the Bureau from virtually any accountability to the American people through their elected representatives,” Mulvaney wrote.

In his second day of appearing before the Senate, Mulvaney has gone all out of poke Senate Democrats in the eye.

When Mick Mulvaney served in the House, he tried to warn colleagues that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was too independent of Congress. Now that he’s running the CFPB, Mulvaney wants to demonstrate just how correct he was. For the second straight day, the acting director has told a congressional panel that he can just sit in front of them all day and ignore their questions, and there’s nothing they can do about it:

“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.”

“I believe it would be my statutory right to just sit here and twiddle my thumbs while you all ask questions,” Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the House Financial Services Committee.

Fuck yes, he did.

And it is GLORIOUS!!!

The lesson here should be to remind everyone about the golden rule of politics.

No side will be in power forever and you have to be prepared to reap the whirlwinds that you sow.

Argue that Heller was wrong and push gun control now and find out when happens.

Hell, if I were in Congress I’d be pushing bills to put YUGE excise and windfall profit taxes on movies and TV.  Most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood is garbage and I will fuck them sideways on every cent of profit the have just to shit in some Liberal star’s organic breakfast cereal.

Come after my guns and maybe your beachfront property needs to be turned into a homeless shelter via some eminent domain.

Unfortunately I think that the Democrats, most politicians in fact, are too stupid to learn this lesson.  Which is too bad because it’s just going to make things worse.