Posted on 01/06/2017 10:07:23 PM PST by blam
John Hayward
January 7, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump’s order for all politically-appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day is “breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods,” according to the New York Times:
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
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LMAO! I love this guy!
All of them were political graft ambassadors who have been counter productive to the best interests of Americans.
Hey, by the time Trump gets done firing Obama political appointees, Virginia will be a red state again. Drain the swamp.
Seriously, firing the ambassadors is I suspect just the first. Just US Dept. is up next. CIA and FBI will take a bit more time.
Give me a break about major donors “scrambling” to find ways to stay in their respective adopted countries — and, yes, that does include the ambassador to Costa Rica, on behalf of whom the Times shamelessly plays the breast cancer card. I’m sure the RICH US AMBASSADOR will have no trouble leasing a house and jumping through the requisite hoops to keep his family in the country for a few more months. Cry me a river, New York Times!
He also get so fire all of the US Attorneys.
Is that grown up enough for you, Biden?
I seem to remember all sitting US Attorneys being fired in a single day by President Obama.
Anyone appointed by Obama to anything is at best suspect, because if he wanted them, then he believes they are anti-American globalists. Better to be safe and get rid of them all. Except the DA in Manhattan.
Absolutely.
Read here somewhere there is an obscure law that authorizes congress to reduce Federal employees pay to $1 for overstaff that can’t be fired.
Nome Alaska would also make a great place for disgruntled EPA managers to be transferred to study polar bears.
It was Clinton, but I think Obama might have done it too. Funny thing was, when Bush fired one of them, the libs went nuts, tried to get rid of Gonzales for it, and I think Bush gave in. Stupid Bushes.
“Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place”
Thank God.
Get their asses on planes and help America heal from years of gross neglect.
I thought about sending people to Alaska earlier, but I have settled down to just geographically dispersing whole departments. Move the department of agriculture to Kansas. Move the department of energy to Houston. Half the employees will leave because they don’t want to move, which is good. And any new hires will be from mainstream America, not some ruling class wannabes.
Hmmm, the Alaska thing was an vindictive joke...sort of ;)
But hey, I do like your idea of dispersing Federal Departments out into the heartland. And, when the libs howl, Trump can just explain that he thinks it’s important for the servants to be among the people they serve.
I said earlier this week that should be done right after this. And hit tip Bill Clinton for that one.
Hat tip...
Yup, can't complain about that one.
Became the internet came along, I could see the logic of maintaining all these departments in DC. Now? A lot less so.
I think Trump would do well to pick several agencies (not the big ones) and just mandate that they have to find a new facility fifty miles outside of the beltway. Like the National Science Foundation which resides in Arlington, VA. I’d move them to Annapolis, Maryland.
I’d go to NPR and identify 10-percent of the funding to be cut in 2018, and another 10-percent in 2019. Just little signals that things aren’t going to be the same, and they need to cut their budget.
That’s it, you remembered.
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