by Jack
The Washington Post said there was an exodus en masse of senior state department bosses. Liberals were cheering these managers courage at first, because the State Dept. is a very liberal dominated institution. Soon, a number of the usual fake news agencies spread this breaking news and liberals were overjoyed! In truth, what really happened was exactly the opposite. They were asked to leave by the new administration and that Trump is filling their position with people hand picked by Trump and his cabinet.
We have a long history of the new president doing this, it’s hardly unusual, but the way the lame-stream news media carried the story you would have thought these people didn’t want to have any part of the Trump era and resigned on their own. Well, again, that’s not true at all. The only thing that was unusual was the speed at which Trump is organizing his appointments.
I have to ask, don’t you resent being lied too by the fake news people? I’m telling you, their days are numbered. People are fed up and so is their president. We don’t need the fake news spreading fear and angst among the populace just to peddle their fake newspapers.
CNN got it right: “Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to “clean house” at Foggy Bottom.
Patrick Kennedy, who served for nine years as the undersecretary for management, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Consular Affairs Joyce Anne Barr and Michele Bond, and Ambassador Gentry Smith, director of the Office for Foreign Missions, were sent letters by the White House that their service was no longer required, the sources told CNN.
All four, career officers serving in positions appointed by the President, submitted letters of resignation per tradition at the beginning of a new administration.
The letters from the White House said that their resignations were accepted and they were thanked for their service.
The White House usually asks career officials in such positions to stay on for a few months until their successors are confirmed.
“Any implication that that these four people quit is wrong,” one senior State Department official said. “These people are loyal to the secretary, the President and to the State Department. There is just not any attempt here to dis the President. People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house.”
Confronting “journalists” works for me. Cleaning house works for me.
Trump knows that the press isn’t trusted very much, and that the less it’s trusted, the less it can hurt him. So he’s prodding reporters to do things that will make them less trusted, and they’re constantly taking the bait.
They’re taking the bait because they think he’s dumb, and impulsive, and lacking self-control — but he’s the one causing them to act in ways that are dumb and impulsive, and demonstrate lack of self-control. As Richard Fernandez writes on Facebook, they think he’s dumb because they think he has lousy taste, but there are a lot of scarily competent guys out there in the world who like white and gold furniture. And, I should note, Trump has more media experience than probably 99% of the people covering him. (As Obama operative Ben Rhodes gloated with regard to selling a dishonest story on the Iran deal, the average reporter the Obama White House dealt with “is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns.” In Rhodes’ words, “they literally know nothing.”)
Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds
“They were asked to leave by the new administration and that Trump is filling their position with people hand picked by Trump and his cabinet.”
So then, shouldn’t there have been, like a press conference … even a twitter? … “Tillerson says these people are leaving, and these people are taking their place”? (Before he’s even confirmed?)
That does not seem to be how it happened, does it? Disorderly I call it.
Our fourth estate really does have a huge responsibility. On the one hand, they can’t not report serious stuff. On the other hand, it really will not do for the world at large, and innumerable bad actors, to get the idea that the country’s government is coming apart at the seams. And so, if the Trump Administration wants to pretend that it’s not all getting away from them, they will be allowed to … for awhile.
Tillerson was there, at Foggy Bottom, this morning for “lay of the land” meetings … and the meetees just … “luck to you, Dude”. Can you imagine the distress this must have caused? I think it was a bad, bad day in the West Wing.
Now, if they want tomorrow to go better, here is an excellent plan …
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-trumps-tweets.html?_r=0
OMG it is customary to submit resignations as a New Admin comes in. Funny to watch you follow fake media as the stories get strung out into falsehoods and ya try to find Truth.
Spreading falsehoods and silencing real science??
Trump wants to publish a list of crimes committed by immigrants. This is literally something Nazis did to Jews.
Time to look inside and do some splaing
Drip, drip, drip …
“On Wednesday, The Associated Press obtained a draft of an executive order showing that Trump is considering a major review of America’s methods for interrogating terror suspects and the possible reopening of CIA-run “black site” prisons outside the United States. The same order would reverse the planned closure of the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
Good Lord, the man is spending your money like water.
“Further limiting Trump’s control of the federal bureaucracy has been the slow pace at which his own people are taking over. Trump has filled just 31 of the 690 key political positions requiring Senate confirmation, according to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, which is tracking executive branch nominations. Only four of his appointees have been confirmed by Congress.”
Indeed, maybe staff should spend less time writing unworkable executive orders, and more time on background checks.
I don’t know how many of these tax cheats in high office I can take.
Are you aware of how many in the bureaucracy are themselves tax cheats?
Get a grip sister.
Anyone recall the first days of the Bill Clinton administration. We called it junior achievement because they were fumbling around like giddy kids. Obama’s wasn’t any different. The left should quit thinking we have no memory of such things, makes them look silly.
Good riddance!
The air at State is immediately fresher with their departure!
Hopefull there will be many more packing up and moving on.