Posted on 11/16/2004 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
When Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation on Monday, he had already been "politely" encouraged to leave his post by President Bush, according to NBC News.
"Powell was going to leave but he was not necessarily going to leave right away, particularly with what's happening in the Middle East," the network's Andrea Mitchell reported Tuesday morning.
"He was prepared to stay for a few more months. And that was politely not accepted," she claimed. "They needed Powell in 2000, they thought, in order to get elected," Mitchell explained to radio host Don Imus. "They've now been re-elected and won't have to face the voters. And now, as the conservatives used to say about Reagan - 'Let Reagan be Reagan' - let Bush be Bush. He's true to himself now and doesn't have to play any games towards the moderates."
Mitchell said that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.
"It's going to be a whole new world" at the agency, the NBC'er said.
The State Department bureaucracy in Washington and their minions overseas are protected by civil service regs and think they are invisible and bulletproof, even when they work assiduously against the policies of an elected administration with which they don't agree.
A switch in assignments, let's say from Switzerland or London, to Gabon or FarOffistan, for some of the worst offenders might prompt a little discipline in the ranks.
Same with CIA.
Yup! Time to change the diapers at Foggy Bottom !
Hope Bush can avoid an "Iran Contra" and finish strong. You know the MSM (main slime media) are gonna create one anyway. Get to work Condi.
What you say happens to be the best Christmas present I could ask for!
That's a job about 55 years overdue.
I think Powell being "pushed" overstates the case. Let's just say that the team failed to pick up his option.
Thanks Howlin, I'll read it when I get off work tonight, I get a 2 hour break before I have to go back, right now.
I read the exchange between her and the procecutor, she's a tiger, I really do like her style, and I'm thrilled to see her taking over State.
Since nobody is running to reelection, I'm looking forward to some sorched earth where she walks.
With George W. Bush or Albert Gore Jr. ?
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