Wednesday, March 14, 2018

TILLERSON GONE: SESSIONS, ROSENSTEIN AND WRAY NEXT?

I was shocked to awaken yesterday to the news that Trump had nominated Mike Pompeo to be the next Secretary of State.  My initial reaction was, "What happened to Tillerson, and why?"  Certainly, he had done a much better job than his two immediate predecessors, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. 

On second thought, anybody could have done a better job than those two birds.  The more I thought about it, the more I began to realize why Trump fired Tillerson and why he chose Pompeo for the replacement.  

Sometimes in the course of human management, you have to first hit people over the head with a baseball bat in order to get their attention.  I can't begin to tell you how many times in my history, when I've been asked to go into a business and help turn it around, I've immediately been faced with resistance when trying to instill change:  "We've always done it that way."  Well, if you've always done it that way, why are you failing and why don't you want to accept change?  

Tillerson was a fine man with, I think, good motives and a great background.  I don't know that he ever swung a baseball bat, but Trump wants and needs to drain the swamp and it's obviously that several baseball bats are needed.  The State Department is permeated with... overflowing is the word... jackasses and insurrectionists who think they run the government.  Those incumbents continue to cover for Obama and Clinton and to stonewall any attempt to move the Trump agenda forward.  They simply must be removed, relegated to the basement or thrown out the door.  Tillerson was so busy putting his arms around the huge international problems that we have to deal with to do any house cleaning.  But, there's an old adage that your own house has to be in order before you can go out and reorganize the world.  In that respect, Tillerson failed.  

So it is with Sessions.   So it is with Wray.  Rosenstein is an integral part of the problem that needs to be fixed.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

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