Drain the swamp
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cid=spartandhp
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.
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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.
A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama’s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.
Last edited by evince; 01-06-2017 at 06:24 AM.
Drain the swamp
Cancel 2018.1 (01-06-2017)
how is having no ambassadors going to work idiot
Callinectes (01-06-2017), Midas Whale67 (01-06-2017)
Russian government celebrated Donald Trumps victory
Callinectes (01-06-2017), canceled.2021.3 (01-06-2017)
will he hire cronies and long time business associates as the new ambassadors, or will he keep the swamp clean and appoint unknowns to those posts?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Phantasmal (01-06-2017)
lol. Do you know why Trump pulled them all on day 1? Because Obama already made major pushes in his lame duck presidency with Israel and Russia. If they are there past day 1 they will go rogue as well and obstruct Trump's agenda.
If there was good faith that they wouldnt do anything major they would be able to stay. But we dont have that good faith anymore.
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