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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George Schultz was a captain of industry on the international scale prior to some well respected time in government. Perhaps this pick is in that mould. Trump has centered his picks on major business figures, congressmen, Generals and a few Governors. Such people are typical selections by prior Republican Presidents. The Democrats center on Lawyers, think tank functionaries and life long Mandarins of government service.
The only thing I have to say about Mark Levin would get me arrested.
“luminaries of the Bush administration”
And yet Levin had no problem with Ted’s connection to The Chertoff Group.
uh huh..
Levin is a moron. He’s been exposed. Wrong about everything. Has the emotional stability of a teenage girl.
He basically doesn’t know anything about Tillerson and is letting his imagination roam free.
Desperate Times
Bush’s crowd was nothing to get excited about. They continued the long slide that we now need to recover from.
I am thrilled that Trump’s cabinet contains successful business people who have accomplished deals on the International stage and have working relationships with world leaders, such as Tillersen.
Russia is a world power, so is America. Many of our aims are common, some antithetical. A mutually beneficial alliance is something both countries should be striving towards, dialing down the rhetoric that has been pushed during election season and working towards mutual respect.
A Russian alliance would be HUGE. Both countries will need to have their eyes open but there is more to gain from cooperation. As our countries forge bonds of mutually beneficial trade, strategy etc there will be a higher economic cost for fracturing those bonds and chances of hostilities become increasingly unlikely. There will always be spying and maneuvering on both sides but set against a backdrop of common aims and respect.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that the duties held by the SOS have nothing to do with global warming or who is/is not allowed to be a boy scout, but issues between sovereign states.
Yes. I’ve tried to read them and they are tortuous. I can’t stand how Levin milks his audience for the sophomoric 2nd grade readers that he puts out under his father’s name. Levin has been scamming people for years. Can’t believe all the dolts that still take him seriously.
Levin just another #nevertrump fool. He is dead to me.
He is that. Unfortunately, he makes a lot of good points here. Like Baker, Gates and Condi all having significant financial ties to Exxon. Ethically, they really should not be entering the fray on this one. It smacks of paid lobbying and is certainly not “swamp draining”.
What happened to you? You were one of the biggest Trump supporters on this forum.
No idea, I stopped listening to Mark 6 months ago
Oh well if that's the case then it shouldn't be a problem to stack the administration with crony left wing globalist pro-abortion homo-agenda types.
A Russian alliance would be HUGE. Both countries will need to have their eyes open but there is more to gain from cooperation.
Your big mistake is assuming Putinist Russia wants alliance. They don’t. Like the Chicoms, they want the US to withdraw so they can fill the power vacuum. How is that working out Asia? Not at all. The Chicoms are running rampant due to the kenyan’s soft touch and the chickens are coming home to roost. Day dreaming about an “alliance” with Russia plays right in to their agenda.
It doesn't matter one bit, because Trump can always say the Magic Words.
Remember, the Tenure of Office Act was found to be unconstitutional almost 150 years ago.
What happened to you? You were one of the biggest Trump supporters on this forum.
I was. But Trump’s foreign policy picks and rapidly developing lightweight kitchen cabinet do not inspire confidence. Apparently, we are getting a package deal with Trump, Jared and Ivanka all moving to DC. Campaigning and governing are two entirely different thing and it seems Trump thinks they are the same. It’s not just campaign hot air now and I don’t think he realizes the power of the signals he is sending. Good luck getting help with the chicoms if the bromance with Putin continues.
As I observed in another thread,
Exxon is bigger than a lot of countries.
And Tillerson didn’t get where he is because his father left it to him.
He is the head of a virtual state, and an oil “state” at that.
I’d say that makes him experienced and qualified, well beyond most men.
What flipping planet have you been on for the past 28 years?
I don’t have to listen, I have heard Levin loud and clear for a year now. He’s wrong again, what else is new?
But at least he’s heading in the right direction ;) - Crash and Burn.
Please point out to me where, exactly, has the “conservatism of yesterday” reversed, stopped or even slowed down the leftist takeover of our institutions in the last 15 years or so? IIRC, the “compassionate conservative” Bush II got into office and oversaw the largest expansion of welfare since 1965, tried to get amnesty passed and ran up more debt than any president before him. The only reason Bush II does not look as bad as he should is that he was followed by the even more disastrous Obama. Is Bush II an example of the “conservatism of yesterday” you allude to? Trump’s cabinet appointees appear more conservative to me than anybody else’s I can remember. I think we should give Trump a chance to do his thing and see what happens. I think it is time to try something besides the standard GOPe plan/people and I am glad Trump appears to be doing just that.
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