Posted on 02/16/2017 6:58:05 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
TRUMP VS THE APPARATCHIKS
During the Nixon Administration, arch conservative, presidential candidate and founder of the Conservative Caucus Howard Phillips headed two federal agencies, ending his executive branch career as director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for five months in 1973, a position from which he resigned when Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto further funding for Great Society programs begun in the Johnson Administration.
Nixon’s appointment of Phillips as Director of OEO in January 1973 touched off a national controversy culminating in a court case in the US District Court in The District of Columbia (Williams v. Phillips, 482 F.2d 669) challenging the legality of Phillips’ appointment.
(The above two paragraphs from Wikipedia don’t tell the full story.)
Phillips went to the OEO with the intention of DISMANTLING at least that much of Johnson’s Great Society socialist agenda. That MAY have been why Nixon put the outspoken conservative in the slot as a feeler for how far he might go toward paring down the bureaucracy Johnson had ballooned to new and higher levels. We will never know. The bureaucrats at OEO knew what Howard was up to when this conservative firebrand was appointed and filed the lawsuit referenced above. Not content to wait for the court to render a decision, a delegation of OEO bureaucrats made it clear to Nixon that he would have “problems” if he allowed Phillips to remain and continue to pursue his take-down of the agency.
Nixon caved and dismissed Howard, allowing him to save face by presenting his departure as a voluntary act.
Which brings us to the mess currently developing for Donald Trump!
Since the Nixon Administration the “Deep State” bureaucracy has grown in size and clout by orders of magnitude. What we are now witnessing in Washington today is just the beginning of a full-on assault on Trump’s expressed goal of CUTTING THE BUREAUCRACY with the Beltway apparatchiks in full cry and fury in their efforts to frustrate his plan. That they are putting that effort AHEAD of the security of the nation seems to be of no concern to most of them.
Let me wrap this by reminding you that the PRIME DIRECTIVE of nearly every bureaucracy in history has been to expand its SIZE and POWER. Because most of them are not merit based, the way to move up is to continue to load the bottom with new people. That’s the size component. And the power part will be completely understood by anyone who has had an “experience” with the EPA, DOE, IRS, etc.
President Trump and those of us who support him are in for the ride of our lives. And HE is probably already asking himself “What in the hell is wrong with me? Why did I DO this?”
He did this because he loves this country and was deeply concerned with our direction.
We out here in “Flyover Country” should be equally concerned that his sentiment is not shared by the entrenched apparatchiks in the “Deep State”.
Buckle up!
Dick Bachert
Good post.
I don’t think Americans are in the mood for any more Obama shadow army shenanigans. That would get bloody.
Schumer made veiled threats that the intel community would take down Trump.
Based on a foundless lie that the medic is still promoting.
This is not how the intel community works, it is how politicians and scoundrels work
media
Old man knows you have him miked and aint threatened, its your job
You know if he operates outside of that, he is up to something, maybe something benign , but up to something
you look into it
It is scary. We knew “they” would not stop at anything. They have no choice but to fight to the death, because if we win, they are powerless. We need to make sure the only death is their power.
We do the work, and hand it to scoundrels
Intel people are not the problem Politicians are
Trump was correct to beat the crap out of the idea that there are criminal leaks to the media.
He was correct to say we will find you
Standby chuckleheads
Disband the CIA, and rebuild from scratch.
That’s been my take on much of this. A person really does not know what to believe.
It’s the media sowing seeds of distrust
I pray for the Presidents safety every night and sometimes during the day and include his security detail that are protecting him. These are scary times and President Trump needs our prayers. God be with him.
If the intelligence community doesn’t to unleash a sh!tstorm of fury onto their own worthless heads, they’ll back off. They can’t stop a million furious Americans. We will find them, and we will bring immeasurable harm to them.
What is the deal with the “Son of Cain”(what McCain literally means) having a great friendship with the man from Russia or the Ukraine who claims to have been poisoned twice by Putin? Like, if Putin is going to kill a whistleblower, he will use the same poison blamed for killing another so called opponent.
Fascinating. It was not ago when someone mentioning “The Deep State” would have been ridiculed for having such a conspriaracy theory.
“I pray for the Presidents safety every night and sometimes during the day and include his security detail that are protecting him. These are scary times and President Trump needs our prayers. God be with him.”
AMEN, keep praying.....
“He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps”....(And, He loves Presidents that love His people)
“Trump needs to re-establish control by dealing with these people in The Very Harshest (legal) Way Imaginable.”
AGREED,.....arrest the former head of the CIA to start with, then go after Obama criminality
There is no room for a shadow government in America. they are a danger to only one person — Trump.
He must overthrow it if he wants to survive.
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