[Oshkalaboomboom]

It's getting to the point where referring to someone you disagree with as Deep State is making the term as meaningless as all of the other cute sayings that have come and gone over the years.

[faithhopecharity]

Yes indeed. But president Trump either Drains the Swamp or else the alligators will continue to subvert his presidency and eat him alive.

[RitaOK]

The take away is that this is, in every respect, President Trump’s State Department. It is his charge to be carried out, there. I doubt the president has any reason to know these absurd conditions at State, against Israel even exist.

Perhaps this column will inform him. It has informed me. If true, it will be fixed by Trump.

[Dagnabitt]

It doesn’t take years to move the embassy to Jerusalem. We already have an office there, the U.S. Consulate General.

Just change the sign out front to “Embassy”.

Do it yesterday.

[familyop]

Will those individuals be fired, or is the Executive Branch controlled by the Judicial Branch with lawsuits, judicial decisions and other tactics? We already know that the Legislative Branch is controlled by the many lawyers sitting in it.

[MarvinStinson]

It appears that the State Department, staffed with a cadre of career civil servants and employees of the diplomatic corps, is conducting its own foreign policy, one that deviates from the goals of the White House and undermines its objectives. This group is perhaps more fanatical in its opposition to the president’s historic declaration than some Arab leaders.

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,,,, don’t let the door hit you in the ass ,, bye !

[Yosemitest]

Time to hand down some SEVERE PENALTIES, and take it out of THEIR paychecks !

[MayflowerMadam]

“...the State Department, staffed with a cadre of career civil servants and employees of the diplomatic corps, is conducting its own foreign policy,...”

This is insane. The FBI / dossier / Ohr / McCabe / Mueller / Sessions / etc. is insane. Enough already. Trump has had 11 months to use his position and authority to eliminate his saboteurs and install competent patriots in those positions. Starting 1/20/18 I’m done defending him if things don’t improve.

A Christmas gift multi-person perp walk would make me happy. I keep hoping that Sessions isn’t really asleep at the wheel and that he’s conducting major investigations to arrest about 20 people om Christmas Eve.

[BOBWADE]

These federal employees need to either follow the directive of the president, or find another job. If they cannot follow instructions, they should be fired.

[Ancesthntr]

Satterfield went on to note that consistent with current State Department policy, U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem would not be able to state their place of birth as “Israel” on their passports. The only options currently available to U.S citizens born in Jerusalem are to note either “Jerusalem” as their place of birth or if born prior to 1948, “Palestine.”

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I cannot wait for someone to sue the state department on this issue. The Court ruling in the Zivotofsky case was clear: only the executive branch can make this decision. Well, the chief executive has now made the decision that Jerusalem is part of Israel. There is no sort of Twisted logic that anyone can offer which calls a place the capital of the country, and simultaneously says that that place is not part of that same country.

As for the various State Department officials who refuse to implement policy handed down from the elected president of the United States, I believe that they should not be fired. They should instead be transferred to our newest State Department facility in Deadhorse, Alaska. Of course, the State Department has priorities and limited funds, so that facility is just a few Quonset Huts surrounded by a fence, and will not be fully heated until sometime after the embassy in Jerusalem is completed.

[Karliner]

Foggy Bottom has always had their own agenda(s). I don’t know how you’d drain that swamp of snakes. Maybe a few runs with the A-10 warthog?

[prophetic]

I’ve heard for many years that the State dept is full of communists disguised as diplomats.

[Albion Wilde]

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