If I try to move one row forward in Coach on travel, my company writes me up...so I really have trouble believing that people in these positions simply get unlimited expense accounts and no instructions on how to use them.
...to put it another way, he wanted out, but without directly making it look like he was sick of working for Trump - so he found another way. Not pretty, not great for Trump, but probably a bit better than a flat-out resignation.
Newt was saying that Price is being targeted by the left because he would be effective in dismantling Obolacare. That all of his travel was pre-approved and authorized.
Something else is going on, obviously...
According to Fox News, the private flights cost over a million dollars. I’m sure the President was none too pleased with that.
His free transportation didn’t take him very far! Bye, bye Tom! Stupid choices... Shaking my head. This didn’t have to happen.
Sad to see but he sure made it easy for the swamp to get him.
Mnuchin is next.
5.56mm
Price just got Alinsky-ed.
Conservatives are such fools.
Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky describes 24 rules in Rules for Radicals. Of those 24 rules, 13 are rules of “power tactics”:
1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy
thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”
3. “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the
enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6. “A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and
actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of
operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will
break through into its counterside.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The remaining 11 rules Alinsky describes are concerned with “the ethics of means and ends”:
1. “One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue … Accompanying this rule is the parallel one that one’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s distance from the scene of conflict.”
2. “The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.”
3. “In war the end justifies almost any means.”
4. “Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.”
5. “Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.”
6. “The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.”
7. “Generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.”
8. “The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.”
9. “Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.”
10. “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”
11. “Goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ ‘Of the Common Welfare,’ ‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ or ‘Bread and Peace.’”
Some people don’t have a lick of sense. You have to wonder how they got as far in life as they did.
Fired for excessive spending of government money on travel, is Pelosi next?
The president said he didn’t like the ‘optics’
I agree with Prices’s resignation, but when are we going to bill Moochelle for the separate private jets they chartered for Bobo the dog?
I can’t comprehend the stupidity of what he did. My husband says “someone is after him.” BS....He just plain did what he wanted and didn’t give it a second thought. Why not? He was in the House long enough to know what you can and cannot do on the taxpayer’s dime. Or maybe he did the same and was never caught. I just don’t trust any of them any longer!
This puts Trump in an awful position and he should be boiling mad. I’ve been wanting to see the banquet where crow is served to all the democrats who have been wrong on so many things since the election and now this!
As with Sessions, what a disappointment. He was well regarded in his GA district and to think we came close to getting a dyed in the wool progressive to replace him. Thank God Handle got the seat...
This is going to be hard to get over and so unnecessary!!!
w3e need a new man that will not tolerate an obamacare fix!!
Sad
Word is, separate and apart from politics, that he was not well respected within the Department because of his hypocrisy. Price’s statements as a Congressman and his actions as a Secretary were contradictory, therefore the hypocrisy charge. At least the past two Secretaries reportedly did not make a habit of chartering airplanes for travel. And the airplane travel was supposedly far from the only example, and some of the other issues supposedly rankled employees even more. As I understand it, the dislike for him within the Department transcended politics.
The President will run A TIGHT SHIP.
You misuse the people’s money, and yer fired!
That’s more than a few notches above the Obama nationalist socialista crowd.
Trump, please hire me to do that job. You will not have ANY integrity or money issues to deal with.
All you people who have posted negative things about Tom Price should let us in on how you know anything at all about the circumstances and environment under which he worked. Tom is a close and good personal friend of mine and is completely undeserving of your vitriol. I can say no more, other than to stress how uninformed you are.
It requires a very different skill set to be a leader of a large organization (especially one in need of a big turnaround), than it does to be a legislator or politician (or a doctor, like Price).
To throw a guy in his 60’s into the helm of a huge bureaucracy, with no prior experience in it, is a risky approach. There could be some cultural disconnect as well, between business people (where folks get fired when results fall short), and Government (where people don’t).
If they are going to give these jobs as a reward, or to have a media-savvy spokesman messaging on the topic, then they need to have an ass-kicking deputy, and a change strike team, to actually work the bureaucracy.