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To: silverleaf; TheStickman
He has not got his cabinet in place and has not established a network of subordinates to carry through on his directives

You might want to talk to Congress about why they are moving so slowly to confirm the President's cabinet selections. Also, you might want to change the scale of your expectations. The federal bureaucracy is now so enormous that it takes as much as a year to get all political appointees in place. Last I read, there are some 4000 political appointees in an administration. There are millions of non-appointed civil service employees, plus who knows how many contractors and other hangers on.

Case in point: The attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred just over seven months after President GWB was sworn in. His FBI director, Robert Mueller, became head of the FBI on September 4, 2001, a mere week before the attacks.

People don't realize that there is no word in the dictionary to adequately describe how monstrously huge our federal government has become, and how a president's first year is largely consumed by getting all of his people in place.

148 posted on 02/05/2017 6:11:01 AM PST by Avalon Memories (If Dems want to be purveyors of unverifiable sewer trash, we can play the same game.)
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To: Avalon Memories

“You might want to talk to Congress about why they are moving so slowly to confirm the President’s cabinet selections.”

It’s moving slowly because the RATs are using every procedural tool they have to keep it slow. When they run out of those they refuse to show up for committee votes which says more about them than it does about Trump.

As to the rest, Trump is meeting all of my expectations so far. I expect him to continue accordingly. I concur the federal gov’t is HUGE. Trump’s said he will reduced it considerably. Based on his performance to date, I believe he will do exactly that.


151 posted on 02/05/2017 6:16:15 AM PST by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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