Posted on 02/17/2017 4:48:07 AM PST by tcrlaf
While Rex Tillerson is on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, his aides laid off staff at the State Department on Thursday.
Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed.
These staffers in particular are often the conduit between the secretary’s office to the country bureaus, where the regional expertise is centered. Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-minded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy.
There are clear signals being sent that many key foreign policy portfolios will be controlled directly by the White House, rather than through the professional diplomats. Not a single State Department official was included in the White House meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner - who has no regional expertise or diplomatic experience - had a greater role in the meeting than the Senate-confirmed secretary of State.
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Less leakers and leaches.
I read it. Some of the ones let go now and before are whining that they are “non-partisan careerists” who have the expertise to blah, blah, blah bullshit.... Yet when you look at their backgrounds they were former politically appointed ambassadors, White House staffers or other political geeks.
Exactly right. And, as I think most understand, that's exactly why GWB's poll numbers were in the tank by the time he was in his last few years as president. The Left always hated him and Conservatives began to despise him for being a quintessential statist who NEVER fought back and who NEVER defended Conservative principles. Of course once GWB was out of office we say his spouse and his daughters come out in favor of most of the Left's core causes and values.
So yeah, GWB was total establishment and, praise God, Trump is a wrecking ball.
Demote them as low as they can and no information given to them. Put them mopping the floor is possible.
He can foot their unemployment
Agree. I just left out Bush as these lowlifes weren’t ever loyal to him. I suspect they just considered him too stupid to worry about. And, after 9/11, they figured they had better ‘lie low’ and not cause any waves. I do remember reading, after the 2004 election, that there was an area of the State Dept, where the supervisor announced that GWB had won reelection and they owed their allegiance to him. Whereupon the next in line said (under his breath) ‘yes, but Kerry won lots of votes and we owe him our allegiance, too’. (Paraphrased) And I agree on the other point, too. When I see Republican Senators going hard against Trump, I am reminded that BOTH Partys tried to destroy him during the Primaries AND the General Election. That was one reason I was able to sway a few of my fencesitter friends. I just said ‘look, the Republicans are trying to destroy Trump, too. And that just tells me that neither Party will own him’.
re: “you haven’t figured it out...”
There’s a fine line between conspiracy and stupidity. I don’t know where to draw it with GWB.
I say that because conspiracies don’t usually stay stable over the course of a generation or two—old style Communism and Islam excepted.
My guess too.
TCRLAF has a great point. There are numerous government workers that can’t be fired. But they can be made to quit. Open a dozen new field offices in flyover red state America, small towns that voted 80% Trump, where there are no Whole Foods stores, gay bars or vegan restaurants. Make their kids ony option the public school. Only put a dozen people there at a time so they can’t form their own community. Give them used office furniture from craigslist in a rented stripmall space next to a gunstore/pawn shop and vape store. Assign these high up GS employees to answer the hotline you call to ask questions about how to apply for a passport or what shots you need to visit Gambia. When they quit send a new replacement from Washington. In a year we can clean out the swamp monsters.
See BS is in full whine mode. More winning!
Bush brought in his own low-lifes.
GWB may have been “establishment,” but one of the things that ruined his presidency and sabotaged him at every step of the way, including in the good things he wanted to do, was the “Deep State,” particularly in the intelligence services.
We’ve forgotten it now, but he - and everybody in his administration - was under attack by them from day one. They got a few scalps (Scooter Libby, for example, and their misleading on Iraq), and kept making noises about going after GWB. They relentlessly impeded his every move and undercut him even internationally.
Getting rid of these people at State and in the intelligence services is long overdue. One of Bush’s biggest mistakes was keeping anybody from the previous administration, but he was such a fool about “reaching across the aisle” that he wanted to prove how non-partisan he was by acting like a trusting fool.
Trump needs to fire these and keep on firing till they’re all gone.
Trump promised to drain the swamp, and as long as he is allowed to carry on he will keep his word.
Yesterday I spoke to cab driver here in Stockholm. We were talking about our useless politicians who always reneges on their promises. Suddenly he says: “Isn’t it strange to see what’s happening in the US? They chose a non-politician and whether you like it or not he does exactly what he has promised during the election campaign. That’s the difference between a politician and a “real person”.” Never thought I would here something like that here in Sweden, where the propaganda is akin to the old DDR.
This is HUGE, folks...
The entrenched Academic Socialist Deep State beaurucrats are being cut out. These are the 7th floor “Untouchables” at State!
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A couple of years ago I never would have dreamed of getting a president this good. This is war, and Trump fights.
It seems it is news to CBS that the entire “Russia” and “Iran” policies were run out of the Obama White House, not the state department.
In reality, it is NOT the state department’s job to MAKE foreign policy, only to carry it out. The White House makes the decision. Often when the policy fails it is failure of execution on the part of the arrogant self-important flunkies at foggy bottom, and sometimes that is because they did not really get behind the policy as it came from the White House.
Remarkable, actually. My wife recently came back from visiting her sister in Germany and childhood friends in the Czech Republic. She was astonished at the lies media over their were telling their citizens. They had no idea who or what Trump is and they all believed liberal media’s version.
She set them straight, but good.
GWB was steadfast in not cleaning house of the disloyal, politicized staff put in by Clinton. Either he was in denial, or stupid, or complicit.
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The Uniparty in action. Complicit without a doubt. Clinton is W’s honorary brother.
President Trump is a very fast learner.
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He is, but I think he’s been studying the federal government for many years, and I believe he’s been friends with Jeff Sessions for a long time.
Excellent ploy!
Management does that in the business world too:
Make the unwanted employee move the office a bunch of times, and / or give them monotonous boring work.
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