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I don't see how racing will solve anything. They should share a ride.
more banana republic bull :
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...-office-233312since the Trump transition team did not pre-clear any of its selections for Cabinet positions with OGE before announcing them over the past two months, not all of the nominees have undergone their ethics review that helps Cabinet secretaries avoid conflicts of interest.
”The announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me. This schedule has created undue pressure on OGE's staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews,” wrote OGE Director Walter Shaub. “More significantly, it has left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings.”
I don't see how racing will solve anything. They should share a ride.
these are some of the most important people in government. rushing the process is a disservice to the people and the government. it's important to know who's conflicted and how: it relates to the vulnerability of officials to special interests and foreign powers.
not strictly topical, but related to staffing and similarly short-sighted:
Since there are a lot of politically appointed ambassadors, and the Trump team has not announced a full list of replacements, let alone brought them up for approval in the Senate yet, the January 20 hard date [for ambassadors leaving their posts] means that a large number of nations, including some major US allies like Britain and Germany, are going to be without US ambassadors, potentially for months on end.
Trump wasn't prepared to win. It reflects poorly on his respect for the office and us that he didn't.
Setting up a hurried atmosphere through calculated stalling is how many political agendas get by. It lowers the bar for scrutiny. We learned that in private industry as engineers decades ago. If something needs to be done, suggest it on Friday afternoon and it will get approved. If you suggest it on Monday it will be stalled all week and the stuff suggested on Friday will jump ahead of it. It's ty that things have to run that way, makes you wonder which is the chicken, which is the egg.
Trump is the rich man's version of Harold Washington.
it will tend to prevent Democrats from obstructing and pundits from grandstanding if they stick to the schedule: too much going on at once.
They won't though. Too many people acting on their own best interests. It's like a reality TV show or some b grade series that has to drag along just to try to squeeze another season out of it. It's no longer about the story, but how it can be dragged out to get the most blood from the turnip. The story itself is known.
How so?
sure beats governing
Harold had a huge surge of unexpected voters, 100K or so, and I think a lot of them were Latinos. These were newly registered voters. Harold's win was seen, at the time, as very unexpected. Unlike Trump, Harold had public service experience and actually had a law degree. Trump won a lot of states no one considered and I feel like people who usually didn't vote GOP did this time, at least for the POTUS. Like Harold, Trump comes in with "change" in mind and yet we'll see if he gets a 2nd term, like Harold.
They do it for the same reasons producers do it with series, because it works. Like someone here said "if it's not against the law, why not do it?". Doesn't bode will for lawmakers though.
yea...
The incoming Obama administration has notified all politically-appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a State Department official said.The clean slate will open up prime opportunities for the president-elect to reward political supporters with posts in London, Paris, Tokyo and the like. The notice to diplomatic posts was issued this week.
Political ambassadors sometimes are permitted to stay on briefly during a new administration, but the sweeping nature of the directive suggests that Obama has little interest in retaining any of Bush's ambassadorial appointees.
Most ambassadors, of course, are foreign service officers, but often the posts involving the most important bilateral relations (such as with Great Britain, Japan and India) or desirable locales (such as the Bahamas) are given to close friends and well-heeled contributors of the president.
Y'all obviously have realized it, but Repugs don't give as a about the law or even propriety, any more then they give a about "truth" or science.
Repugs are totally corrupted by BigMoney, BigMoney being their one and only truth.
The Trash, his team, all the Repugs give a big YOU, AMERICA.
They ride the god/guns/gays/abortion social issues into office, then the filthy pigs and the paymaster start pillaging taxpayer money, screwing the country, and screwing everything and everybody else.
just as foolish when Obama did it.
it's more or less moronic to think it to refutes a criticism of a member of one party to point out that a member of another party has done the same thing. bad decisions are bad, no matter the party affiliation.
But not really newsworthy if it's basically status quo.
Who needs ing ambassadors? If Trump wants to send a message to a country he can just tweet it...
that was a side note. what about rushing cabinet level nominees without vetting?
I'm not even going to address the stupidity of conducting state to state communications via Twitter...
The press is doing a pretty good job of hysterically negatively vetting all his nominees...
Bottom line, if the Democrats can get a few Republicans to switch they can block any given nomination. If they can't, they won't.
Jeez Winehole. Tune up your sense of humor. It was a freaking joke. I even added the little
that's the US Senate's job. rushing the job could compromise national security needlessly, not that you care.
The press is doing a pretty good job of hysterically negatively vetting all his nominees...
you use the lol emoji to ridicule other posters, force a laugh or exaggerate inane posts. without more information, it's not possible to determine which you're doing.Jeez Winehole. Tune up your sense of humor. It was a freaking joke. I even added the little
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