Posted on 12/14/2016 7:26:01 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
Tuesday evening on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin addressed the announcement that Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Levin said that the choice of Rex Tillerson ranks among the “worst” of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Rex Tillerson: Trump’s most disastrous pick – The Conservative Conscience Ep77 Listen:
Tillerson has close ties to members of the ruling class establishment. His nomination was praised by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and James Baker — luminaries of the Bush administration and, in the case of Rice and Gates, lobbyists for Exxon-Mobil. Additionally, his close relationship with Vladimir Putin is a major cause for concern.
Fundamentally, Tillerson is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. As Levin read from Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz’s piece today:
Trump should have appointed a secretary of State who regards the current State Department with as much disdain as Scott Pruitt regards the EPA. The problem we have at the State Department is not a management crisis. We have a moral and intellectual problem with the State Department that has persisted for decades. It stems from a deep-rooted culture of moral relativism and an “America-last” mindset. As such, we needed a man with a strong ideological rudder who understands the issues, is on the right side of them, and willing to bust up the entire State Department structure and the global foreign policy apparatus.
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Going with a global warming drone who is endorsed by James Baker and Condi Rice makes me sick. SOME appointments have been very good, but this one is terrible.
Agreed. I’m thrilled with Sessions. Unfortunately, Tillerson has red flags all over the place and the reported heavy involvement of Jared Kushner in his selection is very troubling.
Trump is a micromanager.Everything will get done how Trump wants it done. He’ll get done what needs to be done to Make America Great Again like getting the USA out of the Paris climate deal.
Trump is NOT a micro-manager. He believes in selecting the best person to accomplish the mission. He decides the mission, but his history shows that he expects those who work for him to accomplish the goal.
I don’t think Trump is a liar, therefore, it is safe to assume that he is going to drastically change the way our nation conducts business around the world. He has picked a very serious and accomplished negotiator who has a far better education in how the world works than anyone at the State Department. Trump has become successful because he does not subscribe to group-think. He sees possibilities where others see walls.
I expect that the Deputy Secretary selection will be the one who tries to clean up the mess at Foggy Bottom.
And, this attempt to restart the Cold War by Trump haters is lunacy.
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You talking about the fake news and the libs?
Mark is not a CEO. He is not an international businessman. He is a neocon who pretends to live the constitution. I heard his blather and laughed out loud. Because you do business on a nation does not make you best buds. Heck W looked into pitons eyes...we know the rest
Beginning to?
He became unhinged long ago
Pssst....The guy he picked to run the EPA is one of the biggest skeptics of global warming in the nation, Scott Pruitt.
Pruitt, not Tillerson, will be in charge of dealing with EPA regulations. The SOS will have nothing to do with environmental policy.
Trump made Teddy cry
He was until two months before the election. Do you think we weren't going to remember that?
He's still got a bug up his ass about Trump and is looking for any reason to attack him.
I was being nice.
So then you can see how your post was false.
And I wouldn’t know what Mark Levin did after Trump became the nominee, because I quit listening to him when he raged on and on and on for a week about Corer Lewandowski and Michelle Fields.
To Hell with Mark Levin, he’s nuts.
And I’m very happy to know that he learned exactly how much influence he has over Americans.
Precisely
He's met with countless heads of states to negotiate deals for Exxon. That gives him more skills for the job than most SOS that have served the country.
As if statecraft has gotten us anywhere
Mark is not a CEO. He is not an international businessman. He is a neocon who pretends to live the constitution. I heard his blather and laughed out loud. Because you do business on a nation does not make you best buds. Heck W looked into pitons eyes...we know the rest
Spot on.
SOS doesn’t make policy.
Levin served under Meese, who happens to have supported Trump for President. What next? Levin will disavow his former boss? Oh, and James Baker worked for the Reagan admin during the same time Levin was an underling there.
Big whoop, to whatever Levin has to say.
Wow. Your delusion runs deep
Forget Levin’s assessment. Why would an anti-Semitic creep like Baker support him? And a leftist like Rice! He DOES believe in AGW, which is stupid, and he DID help force Boy Scouts to accept open homosexuals. He DID support Planned Parenthood, which is a racist and sick group. Drain the freaking swamp indeed!
Barf me.
Forget Levin’s assessment. Why would an anti-Semitic creep like Baker support him? And a leftist like Rice! He DOES believe in AGW, which is stupid, and he DID help force Boy Scouts to accept open homosexuals. He DID support Planned Parenthood, which is a racist and sick group. Drain the freaking swamp indeed!
Barf me.
Forget Levin’s assessment. Why would an anti-Semitic creep like Baker support him? And a leftist like Rice! He DOES believe in AGW, which is stupid, and he DID help force Boy Scouts to accept open homosexuals. He DID support Planned Parenthood, which is a racist and sick group. Drain the freaking swamp indeed!
Barf me.
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