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OBAMA HOLDOVERS RETAIN KEY STATE DEPARTMENT JOBS
powerline ^ | MARCH 16, 2017 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

Posted on 03/17/2017 8:23:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

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To: MarvinStinson

I donn’t know, hat do you think? It’s two months now. I couldn’t be LESS of an expert on how transitions go.

Is this a very long time?

Anybody have any ideas?


21 posted on 03/17/2017 11:40:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Same question I have:

I couldn’t be LESS of an expert on how transitions go.

Is this a very long time?


22 posted on 03/17/2017 11:42:56 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: dp0622

Also we are not privy to every going on at the WH. Maybe the writer is. /s


True dat.

Praying St Patty is helping to drive all of the SNAKES out of DC!!!


23 posted on 03/17/2017 12:29:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings f😜low.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I don’t like the new head (entrenched) bureaucrat of the VA and I am extremely confused as to why Koskinen is still at the IRS.

If this article is correct, Trump is over looking these people because he is getting very bad advise or he doesn’t see it as a priority.


24 posted on 03/17/2017 12:37:43 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: MarvinStinson

I was hoping you’d know :)

The 3 billion for Israel even after the yuge cuts in giving to other countries is a good sign overall, though.


25 posted on 03/17/2017 12:47:10 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Jane Long

True dat. What am I on urban.com :)

I like it though. Might start using it.


26 posted on 03/17/2017 12:47:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622
Dat's right. 😂
27 posted on 03/17/2017 12:51:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings f😜low.)
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To: MarvinStinson; Sgt_Schultze; LucyT; Graybeard58; JulieRNR21; hoosiermama; Fiddlstix; Jane Long; ...
DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR SENATOR BARACK OBAMA BY RETIRED U.S. DIPLOMATS

(...OR WHY THE STATE DEPARTMENT SWAMP MUST BE TOTALLY DRAINED!)

At this very moment, I have in my hot little hand a published "Declaration of Support for Barack Obama" (dated 9-15-08) signed with the names of 292 State Department retirees.

It begins: "We are a diverse group of 292 Foreign Service officers. Each of us has had extensive experience implementing the international affairs and national security policies of both Democrat and Republican administrations.

"We urge Americans to select as our next president Senator Barack Obama, a leader with courage, intelligence, a fresh perspective and a focus on the future. He has the judgement and the vision to set our nation on the path to a better future."

(There are more glowing paragraphs to follow which I will not reproduce here).

The State Department is the SWAMPIEST of the departments and agencies in the D.C. Swamp. Since the days of spy Alger Hiss and even before, State has been a morass of anti-American, pro-Arabism, anti-Semitism, globalism, socialism, marxism and other "isms" I can't even think of at the moment.

I know where-of I speak...a close personal friend of mine was career State in the DC economic division building. Over many years he kept me clued in on the alien activities, philosophies and policy-formulations constantly swirling around him.

In addition, I was in email correspondence for years with a since-deceased career foreign officer who was stationed in American embassies in Italy, the Hague, France, North Africa, even Thailand during his long tenure.

His emails to me, while fascinating and well-written were often riddled with phrases such as "American imperialism" and other jargons of the Left which were subtly embedded in his correspondence...and which jargon is still employed to this day by those connected with State.

My left-wing email correspondent just happened to be my second cousin via an east coast liberal branch of our family.

I'm looking at his name on the list of the 292 Obama supporters as I type.

As they say, you can pick your pew...but not your relatives.

Leni/Minutegal

28 posted on 03/17/2017 2:40:20 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!......GO PENCE !!!......DRAIN THE SWAMP !!!)
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It's NOT a "long time" at all.

Transitions hardly ever have gone "smoothly"; especially NOT in your lifetime.

Obama had Jarrett, who stuffed the government with her "proteges"....especially in newly minted "CZAR" positions. It's what COMMIES do.

W used lots of his father's old pals, in positions.

The two examples, above, are more unusual than the norm.

LBJ, who had been on politics all of his life, kept most of JFK's totally USELESS people, instead of installing hios own people.

29 posted on 03/17/2017 2:51:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: MinuteGal; null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; ...

Ping to # 28 , and check out # 29 as well.

Thanks, MinuteGal.

30 posted on 03/17/2017 2:55:56 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: MarvinStinson

They need to get fired ASAP!


31 posted on 03/17/2017 4:09:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: MinuteGal

Good evening.

I hope you are doing well.

All I can say is that other retired State Department personnel I have spoken with would agree with your post.

5.56mm


32 posted on 03/17/2017 4:45:25 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: submarinerswife

Is it possible that he wants them in place when he has them arrested instead of everybody asking why are they arresting this or that guy now that he’s out of office anyway?

I DO want to see them arrested!


33 posted on 03/17/2017 5:27:51 PM PDT by Sal (They're trying to start a civil war. In a war the rules change. BAD for all!)
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To: 9YearLurker
I had lunch today with a mix of half libs and half conservatives. The libs started in on why Trump hasn't done this and why he hasn't done that and why this was not complete and the fence not done and on and on and on. Hey bud you are absolutely correct.

Trump is really a bad President.After all he's been there for over 50 days almost two months and he hasn't cured all the problems of the country yet that it took obama eight years to destroy.

They shut up after that.

34 posted on 03/17/2017 6:32:20 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free because of the brave.MAGA!!)
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Ha—well put.


35 posted on 03/17/2017 6:35:46 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MinuteGal
I have confidence in Rex Tillerson [Rex = 'King'] to clean house - as circumstance permit. I am very impressed in what little I have heard about his Asia trip. The Democraps have been feeding N. Korea's ambitions for decades - and GW also to some extent. The key has always been China! Tell China you are going to nuclear-ize S. Korea and Japan and watch them jump to put restraints on N. Korea... look at how China is screaming just about us putting missle defense tech into S. Korea... It is time to stand up to China's attempted hegemony over SE Asia - and Iran's hegemony over the Middle East.

Dont talk to me about retired State experts defending their years of experience! They have made an almost irreparable mess of the world!

36 posted on 03/18/2017 8:05:19 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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