Posted on 11/13/2016 1:31:13 PM PST by springwater13
President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that Trump for President CEO Stephen K. Bannon will serve as Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will serve as White House Chief of Staff.
Bannon and Priebus will continue the effective leadership team they formed during the campaign, working as equal partners to transform the federal government, making it much more efficient, effective and productive. Bannon and Priebus will also work together with Vice President-elect Mike Pence to help lead the transition process in the run-up to Inauguration Day.
“I am thrilled to have my very successful team continue with me in leading our country,” said President-elect Trump. “Steve and Reince are highly qualified leaders who worked well together on our campaign and led us to a historic victory. Now I will have them both with me in the White House as we work to make America great again.”
(Excerpt) Read more at us14.campaign-archive1.com ...
That's a very good way to put it. This is a proven, effective, and well-balanced team. Fox News is cracking me up trying their hardest to spin this as the hardcore Trump supporters being unhappy about "insider" Reince Preibus. Sorry, Fox, you're so transparent...and so wrong.
Banning was excellent choice! But Pubus? And we’re supposed to just say nahhh keep your head down mosey right along....this isn’t about being helpful it’s about opinion and calling a spade a spade. When Trump nails it I’ll sing his praises (Bannon excellent choice) but I won’t cheerleader for the man when he gets it wrong.
RINO insider sorry that’s what he is
How??? Separate branches!!! A bit of a Constitutional obstace don’t you think?
Not in just words, but it has been clear to me based on body language that Trump has come to both trust, and respect Priebus.
Trump is one of those people that go with their gut, and rarely miss.
Pints.
You are 110% correct! But shhhhhh don’t say nuthin
Excellent observation. As many have pointed out, the CoS doesn’t set policy. Priebus’ skills coupled with his loyalty to Trump suit him well for this job.
“What if Trump forces Prince Pubus to FIRE RYAN? “
The Constitution provides for three separate branches of government. The President, and his staff, have no power to appoint or remove members of the House of Representatives. Only the members of the House of Representatives, or the voters in his congressional district, can fire Ryan. There will be an election for Speaker when the newly elected Congress convenes in January. If you want a new speaker, lobby the Republicans elected to the House for the next term to make a change.
As to the choice of Priebus for Chief of Staff, from what I’ve observed it was an excellent choice. Priebus stuck with Trump and did his job to elect Republican candidates despite tremendous pressure from the GOP establishment, the media, key donors, and many GOP politicians to denounce Trump. Priebus knows where the bodies are buried in DC as well as the inner workings of the city. Many GOP politician owe Priebus favors. This knowledge, and leverage, will be critical for Trump to hit the ground running. In addition, he knows the donors intimately and can be effective in bringing those who bailed in 2016 back into the fold for the 2018 and 2020 elections. Plus, as an insider he can tell Trump which potential candidates for jobs in the administration are likely to be loyal and which will be backstabbers or leak to the press.
Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I’m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
“The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer”
“In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer’s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.”
(Isn’t VDARE banned here at FR? With good reason.)
Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/
“My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term “Alternative Right”; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.”
“Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.”
“As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ‘Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and writers.’”
(BTW, Bannon is an ex-Goldman Sachs banker.)
Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders’ thinking) and declares “the West” to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.
Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump’s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.’s offhand remark that hsi father believes in “racehorse theory.” but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement’s best strategists), “personnel is policy.”
Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his “alt-right” allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don’t think we or Trump intended it to be.
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
This guy didn’t hit the ground running. He’s a supped up drag strip quarter miler with those massive back wheel slicks that produce wheelies.
They raised his back end off the track and dropped it Wednesday morning early, with wheels spinning...
Priebus harnessed recalcitrant Republicans to support Trump, dedicated a lot of RNC resources to his election, and is an effective manager (though not as effective as Kellyanne Conway, IMO.)
And he’s a friend of Ryan’s, so he might be able to help with Congressional relations. (But they already have Pence for that.)
Unfortunately, as Chief of Staff, he’ll probably bring in a lot of Establishemnt Republicans who don’t share — or even see — Trump’s vision, and as Morton Blackwell reminds us, “personnel is policy.”
“A boy named Sue?”
I went to law school and got straight As
Passed the bar and then slept for days
I tell you, life’s sure easy for a lawyer named Sue.
Someone new will need to be RNC chair.
Who would be the democrat's worst nightmare come true?
There are several people on this thread who are raising honest concerns about Priebus. Almost everyone on FR have been critical of him in the past. We have been critical for good reasons.
Yet, Priebus got the RNC position because he helped orchestrate the Repubicanization of Wisconsin. Think about that . . . Wisconsin.
Now the Republican Party leader is Donald Trump and the Republicans hold the House, the Senate, something like 68 of 99 State legislatures and what?, 33 governors???
In this election year Priebus worked hard to pull this off for Trump. He kept it open for Trump before the clinching of the nomination, and once Trump had the nomination Priebus supported him.
Trump had a lot of interaction with Priebus in the last year. I think it is very significant that Priebus was the only person that Trump called to the lecturn to speak at the victory speech.
This is all great but for me, the numero uno appointment I am waiting for is Department of Justice. That is the ultimate position that needs to be filled with a real no-nonsense person who will clean house and lead investigations into the government corruption. I think Rudy is a good man for the job but he might have higher aspirations.
All that being said, Trump knows what his goals are. If his vision is not being implemented, he’s not the one going. They will be!
Hmmmmm, Palin? :-)
“———is the I Before E except after C. His last name follows the rule but his first doesn’t. “
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It’s a faulty rule anyway—ex: weird and seizure.
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A white-shoe firm got muh resume
They made me a partner after just two days...
You sure have that right. My Aunt and Uncle moved from Santa Rosa to Colorado Springs last year. Full blown Obama supporters. Their daughter married a man in the Air Force. She is a flat out crazy train demo rat.
As a native Coloradoan. Their moving back with that stench in their heads pisses me off beyond words.
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