Posted on 02/16/2017 4:06:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Dear Reince:
The name Reince Priebus sounds like the moniker of some Star Wars villain, and coincidentally you need to get in touch with your inner Darth Vader. Youre flirting with failure. The President may be publicly applauding you for the moment, but his supporters are developing grave doubts about your ability to deliver the Death Star on time and under budget. Remember, Vader was the Emperors chief of staff, his hatchet man, his hammer. But Vaders success came from actual successes; sure, he had a messy personal life but he got stuff done. You need to get stuff done.
Getting stuff done is your only job. Your job is not policy and its not chatting off the record with the NYT/WaPo hacks who cant wait to stick a light saber in your back. Its not picking fights with people you imagine to be potential rivals that end up getting you trending on Twitter in a bad way. Reince, you need less drama and more results. Dont think we voters havent noticed that there are all these leaks about everyone in the building except about you and your faction. Hmmm. That insider garbage needs to end. It needs to end now.
Get stuff done. Remember, Darth Vader was foremost a manager, inspiring his team to achieve. Who have you choked out lately for sub-par performance? Were not seeing a lot of crushed larynxes, and thats what you need to motivate that herd of backbiting sloths we call the executive branch.
Your first couple weeks were great. Every day, there was some new awesomeness an EO, a nomination, a tweet dissing some fake news outlet. You were inside the enemys decision cycle, owning the initiative, driving the media to distraction by tossing another chunk of red meat into the tiger cage just as those hacks tried to pounce on the last one. But what are we seeing now?
Nothing. Your enemies now own your decision cycle; your staff is not acting, its reacting.
You have hundreds of appointments to fill, each one a morale builder for the Presidents base, each one a step toward taming the federal government monster. Why arent you filling them? If you are, why arent we hearing about it? Your role has a huge information operations component. You support the Presidents political initiatives by ensuring people like us you know, conservative voters know you arent simply running around the White House playing political footsies with the other suits. Tell us whats going on. Maybe you should get a crack commo team in place and stop making Spicer do that as well as holding down a full-time gig wrangling the press.
You have easy wins right there for the taking. Grab them. There are 118 vacant sub-SCOTUS judgeships and your team has named exactly none. What the hell? The Ninth Circuit disrespected your boss with such contempt that they didnt even bother citing the key statute, and youve just sat there, taking it. The next day, you should have had the boss name a hardcore con for every open seat in the Ninth Circuit. If your staffers cant put a list of candidates in your hand five seconds after you yell for it, fire them.
The cliché is that personnel is policy, and everyone knows that all clichés are true thats how they get to be clichés. Back to the Ninth Circuit oral argument fiasco if one of my second year associates had performed that badly at a status conference hed return to find his crap in a box. Your boss was embarrassed because there was no Attorney General nor any other appointees in place to make sure that the career liberals infesting that miserable department couldnt throw the case whether intentionally or simply because they are terrible. Have you demanded the scalp of whatever pseudo-lawyer was responsible for greenlighting that criminal impersonation of a legal argument? I know its hard to fire government flunkies, but nothing says you cant transfer him away to prosecute littering beefs in a North Dakota national park.
Reince, you are the White House Chief of Staff. People must fear your wrath. Ratchet up your wrath.
Heres an idea. How about every day you drop ten names of assistant deputies and deputy assistants on the Bosss desk and get them nominated? How about a judge a day or better yet, five? If the civil service is slow walking the vetting, get on the phone and deal the pain. And if your own staff cant keep up, can them and get better staffers. Plant a figurative head on a pike in the Rose Garden and guess what? People will start performing. But what cant happen again is leaving the President exposed because you failed to staff his administration.
Get it done.
And put a stop to the craziness. LTG Flynn left after he became a distraction, and in the end, its not about loyalty or friendship but results (something you should always keep in the forefront of your mind). But the idea of replacing him with David Petraeus is flat out nuts hopefully by the time this column runs thats been round filed. Petraeus screwed around with classified info, and we cant overlook that because of his service. He got credit for his service when he didnt go to prison like anyone else who wasnt a Clinton would have. Hes got his own agenda (which is not the Bosss), his own media buddies (who are not the Bosss buddies), and he was not there for the Boss during the election. Bringing him inside your organization is like licking a doorknob during flu season.
Plus, hes anti-gun freedom. Remember how millions of gun owners backed your boss? Hey, save time instead of going through the trouble of appointing Petraeus, just have the President tweet how he thinks we need more gun control and that the NRA murders children.
Or you can recommend the obvious choice, John Bolton. Hes a civilian, hes a diplomat, hes a manager, and he isnt an insult to President Trumps Second Amendment constituents. Moreover, no one is every going to accuse The Stache of cozying up to the Kremlin without drawing a tsunami of laughter and an offer of meds. Bolton would make the White House security team go from being a huge problem to an actual asset.
By the way, have you noticed theres a dam falling apart in California? Wanna guess who gets the blame if it collapses? What have you done to ensure the White House has a response plan ready to go?
We voters are watching, and we are wondering if you are going to empower the President to deliver what he promised. Donald Trump fully understands that the success or failure of his presidency depends upon whether he delivers what he promised. He got off to a great start, but now the initiative is fading and the enemy is regrouping. And thats on you to fix.
Sure, the light saber dueling part is fun, but the Emperor didnt need the guy in black to do the hand-to-hand combat. He needed Darth Vader to put unholy terror in the hearts of the dudes manning the Death Star so they could start pulverizing the enemys planets. And thats what you need to do now, because if you dont, your failure will be complete.
This guy needs to be shown the door. Fast.
Newt would have been a GREAT CoS...if he could have managed his off-the-cuff remarks that get him in trouble with conservatives.
bkmk
Too late...
“Or you can recommend the obvious choice, John Bolton.”
Better yet — KT McFarland. Bolton is too arrogant; it oozes from his pores and he’d undermine DJT at every opportunity.
Preibus has probably never had to do any hard work. I’m guessing he’s in over his head.
So the antiTrump powers to be have decided Reince is the next to be pressured off President Trump’s team....
....then Kellyanne
....then Miller. Etc
JUST SHUT IT!
STOP THE BULLYING DISINFORMATION!
Priebus did his job to the letter. He backed nobody in the primaries and went all in once Trump got the nomination.
Maybe he is in over his head and maybe he isn’t but I’m willing to bet he’s one of the good guys.
KT McFarland is President Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor
I know. But she needs to lose the “Deputy” title and move up a level.
Yes he would have been, and I have always thought so. That was one of the reason I did not vote for him in the 2012 primary election.
Newt’s also an Establishment guy.
I think I saw somewhere that Sessions’s long-time chief of staff was being considered as a replacement. Without knowing anything about him, I like the sounds of that better.
Reince was steadfast once trump won the nomination - many can’t stand him and make up “what ifs” to justify it now. If he was as so many seem to think they can claim, he would have beat Flynn out the door.
You know there is nothing more I hate than when people speculate of something they don’t know anything about.
Please note my caveat in my post.
That said, I’ve never trusted the Establishment Trio from Wisconsin - Lyin’ Ryan, Walker & Reince...and Ryan is a flat out traitor.
After this Flynn thing, it is clear that their good friend Pence is part of the problem too—which of course is an even stickier situation.
She is not mentioned as a Replacement for Gen. Michael Flynn who resigned.
I know she’s not; maybe she should be.
I’m not seeing it. McFarland’s main background is in defense PR and communications, and she was outed for embellishing her credentials when running unsuccessfully for the senate.
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