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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Tillerson got to know many heads of state with his global business dealings and his being a puppet of Putin is a false meme - congratulations for taking a huge bite of that pile.
I guess its all a question of opinion. If there is a vacuum Russia will definitely step in. We have 8 years of vacuum following a long slide into semi vacuum. I don’t think Trump is going to go on an appeasement/apology tour & therein lies the difference.
On the one hand we have people saying it makes no difference who Trump chooses.... while on the other hand we have people saying Tillerson is a great choice because he knows how to run Exxon and the Boy Scouts. Certainly makes sense.
You are just out to smear Trump you liberal/democrat
Trump is a micromanager.Everything will get done how Trump wants it done. ok get that you embecile? He’ll get done what needs to be done to Make America Great Again like getting the USA out of the paris climate deal.
I think Trump will say FU to the AGW crowd and Tillerson will fall in line.
Trump has been consistently America First, and the Paris Accords, etc are not.
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.
SoS Lurch participated as member of the UNFCCC and signed off on the Paris Agreement, which of course was never ratified by Congress.
Our new SoS Tillerson will have to remove himself from participating in the UNFCCC and he will have to communicate our new intentions, that unlike Kerry and Obama, Tillerson and Trump will not be recognizing the Paris Agreement.
Our Foreign Controlled Media will of course point out that Tillerson as the XOM CEO, did recognized AGW and did support Carbon Credits.
Trump/Tillerson will need to stay firm on the issue.
This is one of many things that comes out of the Trump victory, the number of people here who will now defend allowing publically gay boys to be in the boy scouts. As opposed to when it first happened, and it was a “horrible horrible” thing — and used to attack Mitt Romney.
Huh? You must be crazy.
“Trump is a micromanager.”
That’s a new one. There is no evidence of that. He is delegating Nat security briefings to Pence 6 days a week. Trump is a big picture guy. Micromanager don’t become billionaires.
The least you can do is make sure your insults are spelled correctly.
It is a question I asked you. “You must be crazy” is not an answer.
What flipping planet have you been on for the past 28 years?
This one. And if the kenyan had taken advice from his 35 year old real estate businessman/son in law on who his Sec. of State should be we would light him up. Got to be consistent, FRiend.
Yes, it's truly disgusting. So much for principles.
In addition to Tump and Tillerson putting the Paris "Agreement" in the shredder, Trump and his picks will need to clean out NASA, the EPA and the Dept. of Energy. I think Trump's best pick is Pruitt at the EPA. I have questions about Tillerson at State.
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http://economicclub.org/events/rex-tillerson
This speech? In which he states at 30:44 "I firmly believe it is not too late for Congress to consider a carbon tax as a better policy approach for addressing the risk of climate change"?
Still watching for the Q&A you mentioned...
This guy is sharp. Guys knows the business. I'm impressed.
Found it. Guy from Bloomberg news(funny moment)~49:00
I must not be listening to the interview you mentioned. I didn't catch anywhere that he says the models are flawed.
Can you(or someone) point me to the source of the interview you're mentioning?
Thanks
Great term - we should all recognize that everyone has to pay the bills, feed a family, save for retirement, etc. For those who are in a declining industry - like the fake news media - then they must work increasing harder at maintaining an audience sufficiently large & attractive enough for their true customers: advertisers.
While FR does feed off extreme counter points from both the neo-lib left & neo-con right, at some point there should be sufficient content of actual progress being made to MAGA in which to dissect & discuss.
Yes - that guy who was a major Dem donor. Managing Soros’ money is not simply picking some stocks for a client portfolio. It’s promoting the Soros agenda.
No - I had no problem with Heidi Cruz working at GS but most here did and since you apparently do, then not only this Munchkin guy but Gary Cohn must troublesome for you too? Guess not.
Who’s the hypocrite? You give one GS employee a pass while scolding another.
Independent thought. Try it.
“I’ve seen reports Little Jared is giving advice on who the Sec. of State should be.”
And who is not giving advice on who the Secretary of State should be?
Bush’s team got us involved in the Middle East wars. Are we better off?
“Are you saying we are better off in Asia after the kenyan’s disengagement?”
Are you asking me are we better off having the kenyan in office? If so, you are insane. The kenyan agrees with you, by the way, in the type people he appoints.
A lot of compromises had to be made in defense of Donald Trump.
But at least Hillary Clinton isn’t president. And now conservatives can hope that Trump does 3/4ths of what he said he would do, and ignores the other 1/4th.
His cabinet picks have been interesting to say the least. Ideologically a majority look good, but it will be interesting to see if a government can really be run without anybody who ever ran one. Maybe it can. And the alternative was picking some people who were there before, meaning “establishment”.
Although Trump could have named a half-dozen establishment folks and everybody would be fine with it. Because he can do no wrong.
I am firmly in the wait and see camp, figuring no point in getting too excited, or fretting either, until something actually happens.
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