I am just pointing out what he said. This hold over of staff is just as bad in the House and Senate. Seat changes hands but the staff largely remains, probably need to thank JFK for unionizing those employees.
Madness.
Posted on 01/26/2020 7:03:45 PM PST by bitt
Former national security adviser John Bolton was advised to purge potentially biased holdovers from the Obama administration from the Trump White House, according to a top Republican in Congress.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes said on Thursday that he warned Bolton, whom Democrats want to testify in the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump, of an anti-Trump spying operation by members of the National Security Council. The California congressman also said he told H.R. McMaster, who preceded Bolton, and Robert O'Brien, the current national security adviser, to take steps to cull what he called a "den of thieves."
"I have said this over and over and over again. I said this to McMaster, I said it to Bolton, and I said it to the new national security adviser, O’Brien, that they just need to get all those people out of there," Nunes told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "If you were there and worked for Obama and you were a holdover, just, you know, get a used building somewhere on the other side of the Potomac. Just get them out of there. They have done so much damage to the presidency. I couldn’t agree with you more."
Carlson asked why it appears to be so difficult to remove these officials when a new president is elected and a new government is set up, to which Nunes replied, "I have no idea."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Apparently he did, Drudge has a story from Bolton's new book outlying exactly what Bolton said Trump did to hold the Ukraine money.
Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says
And yet the person involved in those negotiations stated Trump stated he was not looking for a quid pro quo.
I am just pointing out what he said. This hold over of staff is just as bad in the House and Senate. Seat changes hands but the staff largely remains, probably need to thank JFK for unionizing those employees.
No, I’m not faulting you.
Yes, the entrenched bureaucrats are a problem.
Has anyone listened to him?
Hell no, the deep state is as strong as it has ever been.
Would you care to explain THAT line of reasoning, please?
McMaster obviously qualified for a pink slip!
Wonder why it was not issued?
It seems answering this question would be a good starting point.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.It has been going on for at least a half-century, and most likely much longer.
— Communist goal #15, from Chapter 12 of The Naked Communist
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
Also, in light of my previous post, the behavior of the establishment GOP during President Trump’s first two years in office is easily explained.
Still just here say. Accusation by fire employee is not evidence. Unless he can produce signed documents or video/audio it is meaningless. Especially since it came from the NY Times rag.
Thanks.
US has been under assault since 1789,
When the Constitution was signed, the Founding Fathers spit in the eye of EVERY government on the face of the earth!
USA was to be a “Rule of Law” nation. Until then, EVERY government operated under a “Rule of Man” system.
[I’d urge you to read “The Five Thousand Year Leap” by W. by Cleon Skousen. Puts a lot of this into perspective.]
Every despot in the world knew that this notion of “Rule of Law” was signaling the imminent end to their rule.
On the bright side, the USA still, for the most part, has a “Rule of Law.”
On the negative side, we stand mostly alone. Cf UN votes. Most nation-states in the UN are not “Rule of Law” states.
So, it stands to reason that within our political scheme, there are a large number of “Rule of Man” people who want to be “The Man.” Thus, “Never Trump Republicans” will team with LIEberals to take Trump down.
Best we not allow them to do so.
In the meantime, POTUS needs to rid his administration of EVERY person hired by Ophonybama!
Easily explained, perhaps.
But not easily digested!
And, why are “Never Trumpers” tolerated in Republican circles.
I sent you a PM on the 24th. I hope you have the time to read it. :)
Continuity of corruption? That we can do without!
Many were there when he arrived.
Yes!
And do it now!
Sounds like the infestation was just very deep....
It’s impossible to fire everybody. Near every Republican swamp lifer hates POTUS every bit as much as the Democrats do.
Bolton....Deep State....Ridiculous....Not one single bit of evidence to support that idea.
True. Other than his lawyer, staff and publisher providing top cover to the seditious NY Times hit piece. Reportedly, there is more on the way. No doubt you’ll still be defending Bolton then, too.
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