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| In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 5 2017, 11:30 PM (876 Views) | |
| dr345 | Jan 5 2017, 11:30 PM Post #1 |
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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods. 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. 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. http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html |
| un jour on se souviendra de ca comme on se souvient de ca | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Jan 5 2017, 11:33 PM Post #2 |
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Excellent. Time to put nationalist ambassadors and anti/EU advisors |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Robert Stout | Jan 6 2017, 01:17 AM Post #3 |
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Trump is cutting government spending from day one of his administration.........
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| 70-101 | Jan 6 2017, 01:54 AM Post #4 |
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Trump Making America Stupid Again. |
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| Robert Stout | Jan 6 2017, 02:42 AM Post #5 |
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Stupid is continuing to pay Obama appointees.............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 02:45 AM Post #6 |
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It's a stunning foolishness from a man that does not know what he is doing and is just simply unqualified for the job. |
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 02:55 AM Post #7 |
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Trump is absolutely qualified He is 35 and born in the US No other qualifications needed. |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 02:56 AM Post #8 |
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:oyvey Explains everything. |
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 02:58 AM Post #9 |
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yeah. You want a system of inferiors and superiors - you would be much happier in north korea or China.
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| MEEK AND MILD | |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 03:00 AM Post #10 |
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And your plunge to the bottom in yet another thread begins. |
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 03:01 AM Post #11 |
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Do you deny that our republic was setup to elect a from a system of peers? |
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| Robert Stout | Jan 6 2017, 03:02 AM Post #12 |
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C2C can't stand winning.............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 03:03 AM Post #13 |
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You mean other Americans? Of course it is. :oyvey |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 03:04 AM Post #14 |
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If that was the case than I would stop debating you and many of your fellow conservatives. |
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 03:04 AM Post #15 |
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Yes other americans. What in the feck are you babbling about? |
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 03:06 AM Post #16 |
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You've won about as many debates as a flatearther friend. |
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| Coast2coast | Jan 6 2017, 03:06 AM Post #17 |
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You are the one that brought up peers. :oyvey Any other signs of a stroke on your end? Don't muck around. Time is crucial! Edited by Coast2coast, Jan 6 2017, 03:07 AM.
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| estonianman | Jan 6 2017, 03:07 AM Post #18 |
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wow. |
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| Tsalagi | Jan 6 2017, 09:29 AM Post #19 |
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At the time of the founding of the Republic, the Founding Father's vision of "peer" was an educated man of the Age of Enlightenment who had read Voltaire and John Locke, and a "man of worth", a landed man of property properly educated to govern the "rubes"...ok, well, they got Trump half right. |
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| Harambe4Trump | Jan 6 2017, 10:17 AM Post #20 |
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The ambassadors to Hungary and Poland have interfered in the domestic affairs of the nationalist governments there. The UK ambassador has not placed pressure on Theresa May to enact the Brexit. He knows exactly what he is doing. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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