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Is the Deep State Attempting a Coup?
Powerline ^ | 06 December 2017 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 12/07/2017 8:02:13 AM PST by Lorianne

Administrative employees are nominally subject to the control of those appointed by politicians who have won elections, but Democrats embedded in the federal bureaucracy have proclaimed themselves part of the “resistance” to President Trump, and are using their positions to undermine his administration. Bureaucrats thus frustrate the will of the voters. President Trump has been in office for nearly a year, and has yet to take control over the federal bureaucracy that nominally reports to him.

I agree with Professor Barnett that this is a constitutional crisis. The most powerful branch of today’s government is the Fourth: the permanent federal bureaucracy that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. The Trump administration can best be viewed, perhaps, as a struggle to the death between American voters and the federal employees who are paid to serve them.

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1 posted on 12/07/2017 8:02:13 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

FedGub versus the American people.


2 posted on 12/07/2017 8:03:41 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lorianne
Is the Deep State Attempting a Coup?

Yes, in slow motion led by the kenyan usurper and the clinton crime syndicate. What they don't seem to understand is that if they get close, their own well being will be in peril.

3 posted on 12/07/2017 8:05:28 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Uranium One = BRIBERY and TREASON - HANG THEM ALL!!!!)
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4 posted on 12/07/2017 8:05:52 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Lorianne

Since the moment Jeb got dissed by Trump on stage. Yep


5 posted on 12/07/2017 8:05:58 AM PST by stanne
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To: Lorianne

Sedition. The government has already decided to have a shut-down this weekend. It is a constitutional crisis. Democrats are poor losers.


6 posted on 12/07/2017 8:07:39 AM PST by Sweet Hour of Prayer
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To: Lorianne

Yes, they are.


7 posted on 12/07/2017 8:07:47 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Lorianne

On the conspiratorial level, it’s all political. ‘Installing’ bureaucrats with ideologies.

On the more practical level, it’s psychology/sociology. There is an arrogance that I’m sure (but I don’t know personally) comes with serving in these positions where you believe that because you are privy to the inside information, you know better than the pesky critics who question your every move.

I suspect bother are true, to varying degrees, depending on who it is you are looking at.


8 posted on 12/07/2017 8:08:35 AM PST by z3n
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To: Lorianne

It’s amazing that Hillary still runs the FBI


9 posted on 12/07/2017 8:09:12 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Lorianne

For decades we were told these are career civil servants that were a- political. We were never told they hob nob together, live together, their kids attend the same schools, wives sit on boards, boards sit on wives, they donate to politicians, pay to play. Its a cesspool that needs to be drained.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 8:09:24 AM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Lorianne

Is the Pope Socialist?


11 posted on 12/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“What they don’t seem to understand is that if they get close, their own well being will be in peril.”

We are now getting to that point and yes they will get slaughtered like pigs.


12 posted on 12/07/2017 8:10:32 AM PST by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Calling Madame Defarge!


13 posted on 12/07/2017 8:11:34 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Lorianne

Trump needs to announce a massive layoff of federal employees. About half which includes most of the the upper management.


14 posted on 12/07/2017 8:11:50 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Lorianne

Trump’s presidency is the trophy the Coup leaders are working for. If Trump is forced out then the USA is OVER as we know it; Next comes civil war.


15 posted on 12/07/2017 8:11:58 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Call to arms........


16 posted on 12/07/2017 8:12:41 AM PST by PSUGOP
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To: Lorianne
Yes, and they've been less subtle since President Trump's nomination became a real threat to them.

I look at the US Senate. It happened with Murkowski, Lieberman, Cocheran. Now, it's Franken and Roy Moore. It's about the US Senate and their deep-state owners deciding who gets to serve in the US Senate.

That's why I support Al Franken keeping his Senate seat until and unless he's voted out. It's part of establishing the precedence of determining who can and cannot be in the US Senate...voters be damnned.

17 posted on 12/07/2017 8:12:54 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Lorianne

F*** the union rules ... START FIRING PEOPLE

End the unions too.

They should be illegal for public employees to form unions against ... THE PUBLIC.


18 posted on 12/07/2017 8:13:04 AM PST by Mr. K (There is no consequence of repealing Obamacare that is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: z3n

Some professions draw different types of people. The type of person attracted to a bureaucracy is likely a liberal, for what reason I don’t know.


19 posted on 12/07/2017 8:13:14 AM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Lorianne

This is one reason why term limits are useless at best and a diversion at worst.

Repeal the 17th Amendment, it’s the only way to be sure.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 8:13:42 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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