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Kamala's national security adviser calls it quits, cites 'pressing personal matters'
Hot Air ^ | March 21, 2022 | Karen Townsend

Posted on 03/22/2022 6:17:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Nancy McEldowney, Kamala’s national security adviser, is leaving the vice-president’s office to attend to some personal matters, according to an internal memo. After serving in her role for more than a year, she’s planning her exit. McEldowney hasn’t announced her last day on the job but she said she’s ‘not rushing out the door.’

She said that she is stepping down to ‘focus on some pressing personal matters.’ Is that a nuanced version of spending more time with one’s family? It sounds like that but maybe it’s something more. For those keeping track at home, she is staffer number ten to leave Kamala’s office only a little more than a year into the Biden administration. What is notable is that these resignations are not just run-of-the-mill staffers, the ones leaving Kamala are top staff. No one wants to work for Kamala.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; kamalaharris; passageoftime; personalmatters; pressing; staffer
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To: PJ-Comix

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-aide-david-gins-loves-job-amid-staff-exodus-1656266

his name is David Gins, Deputy Director for Operations

still listed on staff list on wikipedia


21 posted on 03/22/2022 6:41:56 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: joshua c
LOL! Dick Pound confirms that David Gins does work for Kamala Harris. And if you can't believe Dick Pound, who can you believe?

BREAKING: After Zoom meeting with several international officials, Dick Pound confirms that David Gins indeed loves working for Kamala Harris. https://t.co/RSbSX6AWEi— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 6, 2021


22 posted on 03/22/2022 6:51:21 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Mask Has Become a Liberal Virtue Signal)
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To: PJ-Comix

Has this adviser recently bought a blue water cruiser or property in New Zealand?

Maybe she knows something.


23 posted on 03/22/2022 6:54:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Delta 21

MERIT does NOT count.


24 posted on 03/22/2022 7:07:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Spktyr

“...Kamala is an intelligent, strong and independent woman..”

That’s a polite way of saying she is an obnoxious royal pain in the ass.


25 posted on 03/22/2022 7:08:15 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vermont Lt

For many years I had worked for a state government. I watched one incompetent 20-something political appointee after another rise to instant administrative power. Almost always they were in way over their heads and convinced they got their position based on skill and merit.

Worse, they were typically deliriously intoxicated with their sudden responsibility over others. You had to handle them with kid gloves and ever so gently guide them through their inexperience and incompetence. And to be brutally honest, the women appointees were almost always the most prickly and the worst to deal with. So glad that’s long gone.


26 posted on 03/22/2022 7:11:02 AM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of illness and death." The summary of America under Biden.)
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To: PJ-Comix

‘pressing personal matters’ = I can’t stand being around That Woman ?


27 posted on 03/22/2022 7:11:19 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: joshua c
"...each speech would begin with a shoutout to willie for all his help..."

LOL!

28 posted on 03/22/2022 7:14:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: PJ-Comix
After one day of working for Kamala, I bet Avenatti would demand to be returned to his jail cell.

I think he'd ask for Epstein's cell.

29 posted on 03/22/2022 7:14:39 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Slyfox

That is bloody awesome!!!!!


30 posted on 03/22/2022 7:15:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: butlerweave

She probably realized that having a pitcher of screwdrivers every morning so that Camella’s incompetence didn’t bother her so much was starting to hurt her physical and mental health.


31 posted on 03/22/2022 7:16:35 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: carriage_hill
"...I’d bet that Avenatti would rather work for her than be in jail..."

Might be some booty involved for him, too.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

32 posted on 03/22/2022 7:17:02 AM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: PJ-Comix

This girl was appointed ambassador to Bulgaria by W Bush back in the day so she’s more like a career DC grifter than a Chicago Mob operative.


33 posted on 03/22/2022 7:17:46 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: PJ-Comix

This security advisor is probably the one who had to explain the Ukraine situation to her in a way a third grader could understand. And then she later used the exact same words to answer a question about the war.


34 posted on 03/22/2022 7:19:22 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: PJ-Comix

LOL! God, she must be hell to work for.


35 posted on 03/22/2022 7:24:35 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: PJ-Comix

McEldowney may have had a revelation about the significance of the passage of time and how much of it she was wasting working with Kamala.


36 posted on 03/22/2022 7:31:48 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Spktyr

They can say that, but in my opinion, Kamala is extremely insecure which is why she is so mean and condescending to people. She’s just not that bright and she knows it.


37 posted on 03/22/2022 7:33:53 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: dandiegirl

Didn’t say their spin was going to be true. Just saying what they’ll say about her situation.


38 posted on 03/22/2022 7:34:50 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Obadiah

I feel your pain.

I used to tell my wife that a group of men could walk into a room and within moments, the pecking order was known. And in most cases, everyone fell into their role.

Different rooms, different pecking orders.

Women take ages to figure out who is who.


39 posted on 03/22/2022 7:35:53 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: PJ-Comix

The real question is why does the Vice President need a dedicated staff of national security and other advisors? Per the Constitution she has no policy making role. Her only two duties are to preside over the Senate, casting a vote only in the event of a tie, and assuming the role of POTUS in the event the office becomes vacant between elections.

The Executive branch of the government, to which Kamala belongs, has thousands of employees. If she has a need for advice or information, she should simply consult one of the president’s advisors or cabinet officers. There is no need for a dedicated staff. As for her legislative role as president of the Senate, Congress has a huge staff she can consult. Again, no need for the taxpayer to provide her with a huge staff when the resources are available.

Our government is wasting trillions of dollars. If the GOP wins control of Congress, and thereby assumes responsibility for the budget, slashing the bloated staff of the Vice President is a good symbolic place to start the process of getting rid of the fat. A 10% across the board headcount reduction in every department would be good second step as well as firing the outside consultants and ending the bonus payments to federal executive service employees. Then get on to the real work of eliminating, or turning over to the states, most functions of the departments of Education, Labor, Commerce, HUD, Energy, Homeland Security, Transportation, HHS as well as ending subsidies of the Postal Service, Amtrak, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, and a myriad of other organizations. All the GOP House of Representatives has to do is make these changes to the appropriations bill, and with GOP Senate approval it goes to the president.

If the President and Democrats scream it isn’t enough, suggest they develop and submit in a separate bill and for a separate vote all of the additional items they feel should be included. Likely they will refuse and the president will veto the appropriations bill. If they do submit a separate bill with more spending items, hold a vote and reject it. If the president vetos the spending bill passed by Congress, Congress should hold another vote on the original bill and send it back to the president with no changes. The Dems will scream about a government shutdown. Let the government shut down and tell the people the money to run the government was appropriated but the president refused to honor the “democratic process”. The fault is his. Hang tough, resubmit the appropriations bill everyday and tell the press he all he has to do is sign and the government will be funded. Eventually the president will have to cave, though it may take several weeks and the negative press will be more than we’ve ever seen.

If a GOP majority Congress won’t go to the mat with a Democrat president over the federal budget, and force major spending reductions, all of the talk about electing a Republican majority this year is just wasted breath. The nation will just go down the tubes and the Republicans can take credit for not using the levers of power to stop it.


40 posted on 03/22/2022 7:40:13 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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