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The increasingly hysterical Left insists, on ever-shifting pretexts, that Trump is a danger to the Republic. Meanwhile, we have just received a new indication of a real and ongoing threat to the Republic that will likely be little noted nor long remembered. Nikki Haley’s revelation that Rex Tillerson and John Kelly tried to pressure her into joining their anti-Trump cabal was a bracing reminder that America has been plagued for nearly two centuries with arrogant bureaucrats who were not elected president, but thought it only fitting and proper to arrogate to themselves the powers of the presidency – for the good (they said) of the nation, of course!
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rubiconcrest says
At least the president had the good sense to ignore their advice on moving the embassy etc… It just demonstrates the reason why we elected Trump, a man that is not afraid to lead. There sure are a lot of good people that are afraid to step outside the status quo box.
mortimer says
A number of these smug civil servants seem to think that if they disagree with the president, they can OVERRULLE the president. There is no such rule. To do so would provoke an immediate firing!
The smugness of them in hearings was downright sickening. They are NOT elected and they have no voter mandate from the people. They are the employees of the serving, elected politicians, not the other wa around.
theAcefromSpace says
Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
gravenimage says
Tillerson, Kelly, and Our Two-Century Plague of Unelected Bureaucrats
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Glad that Nikki Haley exposed this ugliness–but there are more like them.
Infidel says
Speaking of which, Pompeo needs to fire the likes of George Kent and those other diplomats who were talking yesterday about how opposing Russia was their life’s work for 60 years.
What the State Department doesn’t realize is that the president’s foreign policy isn’t the rogue policy: theirs is! Trump campaigned on getting along w/ Russia, and regardless of whether bureaucrats agreed w/ him on this or not, that’s what the American people voted for. If there are bureaucrats who don’t like this, they ought to have the decency to resign, and work in think tanks pontificating on why those policies are wrong. But remaining in to sabotage the new president’s policy is nothing short of treason, no matter how ‘well intentioned’.
Do a purge of the State Department, and replace them w/ people who share Trump’s vision of what our official policies towards all countries are.
AP says
+1 they are traitors!
Andrew E Walker says
Have you really never heard of the 25th Amendment?
Infidel says
Totally irrelevant in the case of Trump, and just Dems and members of the Resistance grasping at straws
Like they’re doing in the ‘Impeachment’ hearings
Peter says
Federal bureaucrats need to be held accountable to the citizenry they serve, whether they recognize the fact that they are civil “servants” or not:
1. They should not be guaranteed lifetime employment
2. They should be fired for misconduct or subpar performance, and lose their pensions – there must be consequences
3. They should not have salaries on par with private sector ones when the latter can go down during recessions and the former only go up
4. They should not be able to “plead the 5th” in any investigation, trial or testimony having to do with their official federal duties (think Lois Lerner)
5. Those who engage in treason should be executed (hanging, firing squad, even the guillotine) – there must be consequences
6. Every federal agency should have a Business Analyst-equivalent department that reports to the agency head, and can force the implementation of reorganizations and restructurings (etc.) for continuous improvement, efficiency, effectiveness, savings, and accountability
7. All Obama-era federal hires should be vetted for political neutrality in their work, given that many people, not just Democratic Socialists, were deliberately infiltrated into all levels of the federal bureaucracy
8. Federal agencies, or at least the majority of their D.C.-based non-Cabinet staff, need to be scattered around the county to drain the swamp and keep them in tune with the people they serve; this should start with the FBI, the HQ of which should be relocated to a non-D.C.neighboring state, and have its D.C. presence downgraded to a field office.
Angemon says
How many of them are not elected at all?…