Trump and the guys running the GOP could give a crap lol the strategy is to reduce the taxes on folks making minimum wages or less and this will empower them to pay for theie healthcare on The Market. lol Don't forget Trump said the Bible is his favorite book !! What more do they need?
lol by then they will forget what Trump ever said before and will vote for Trump again because he is so crazy he must be for change. That is unless some serious counter education to the right wing echo chamber occurs.
I'm not saying they do, I'm saying that I'm pretty sure that specific crime makes people inelligigble to hold office. I'll check that if they actually try to move forward with giving him the job, but I don't think I'll have to. Either way though, there has to be better candidates.
Technically doesn't the president have the right to grant "need to know" access to anyone he wants? I think Petraeus could be declined clearance if he tried to work in the state department, but as a cabinet appointed official he gets around that. Also, even though the rules regarding security clearance would potentially exclude him, they are not automatic. They are given the option of refusing clearance, it's not an automatic.
Just did a little research and it looks like Petraeus may still have his clearance any way. Apparently he has continued to serve as an advisor in an unofficial capacity to Obama since his plea deal.
I wasn't talking about a clearance issue, I thought part of the law prevented those found guilty of holding office. Again, I haven't checked into the specifics so maybe that's just the felony version of the law.
Ah, gotcha. Only a felony. You talk about someone getting a a sweetheart deal lol. Petraeus got off big time. That he would even be considered by Trump at this point is insane. The man gave highly confidential information, including stuff that identified undercover agents, to a woman he was sleeping with. It's hard to believe that anyone thinks Clinton's "private server" is worse. Petraeus knowingly gave away classified information. Imagine what would have happened if she had actually been a spy that seduced him my goodness.
As part of his deal, he admitted all of those things as true. The FBI was livid when he was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor, and then again when he was given probation instead of jail time. They wanted felony prosecution but there was political pressure from the Justice Dept. (i.e. Eric Holder) to be more lenient than they would normally be.
Weren't people saying that the problem with Clinton was going to be she would be appointing Goldman Sachs insiders who were too cozy too Wall Street? http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...crisis/ar-AAkYuHH?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
It's possible but I think Republicans know that Medicare is part of the third rail of politcs. I doubt that many of them are going to want to have a fight over that.
NEW YORK — Government Sachs is returning to Washington. After a decade in the wilderness, Wall Street’s most powerful firm, Goldman Sachs, is dominating the early days of the incoming Trump administration. The newly picked Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, spent 17 years at Goldman. Trump’s top incoming White House adviser, Steve Bannon, spent his early career at the bank. So did Anthony Scaramucci, one of Trump’s top transition advisers. Goldman's president, Gary Cohn, spent an hour schmoozing with President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday and could be up for an administration job, possibly as director of the Office of Management and Budget, people close to Cohn and the transition said. Cohn, a long-time commodities trader, is friendly with Trump’s powerful son-in-law, Jared Kushner. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/goldman-sachs-power-white-house-231998
Trump is putting together what will be the wealthiest administration in modern American history. His announced nominees for top positions include several multimillionaires, an heir to a family mega-fortune and two Forbes-certified billionaires, one of whose family is worth as much as industrial tycoon Andrew Mellon was when he served as treasury secretary nearly a century ago. Rumored candidates for other positions suggest Trump could add more ultra-rich appointees soon. Many of the Trump appointees were born wealthy, attended elite schools and went on to amass even larger fortunes as adults. As a group, they have much more experience funding political candidates than they do running government agencies https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...dern-american-history/?utm_term=.6805e0d6a21a
I really do not care who he appoint at this point, all I care about is result. We will see in a few years how the next administration does, I am willing to give president Trump a chance to prove all the liberals wrong.
Sure he deserves a chance, but he also deserves to be called out on the BS he was spouting about draining the swamp while he actually fills the swamp in with more swampiness. If swampiness actually works, then people should stop all the talk about draining the swamp and how bad it is.
We all know most of the voters are clueless about politics, in four years it will still be the same, that is the problem with democracy(at least this country is much better than countries like Iraq, India etc in terms of voting public).
I agree. And he will have the chance to prove a lot of conservatives like me wrong too. So far he is on a surprisingly strong trajectory, which is not at all what I expected.
You guys are just trolling, as usual. You need some way to blow off steam after the tsunami of disappointments over the last month and this appears the best you all can come up with right now. That's fine. However, back in the real world, the measure of whether the swamp is being drained is going to be corruption and self dealing. If these people keep their eyes on the proverbial ball and focus on doing their jobs well and right for the American people, then they will be good picks. If they do the opposite and focus on feeding the establishment and the big donor interests, then the 'insider' concerns will have been validated and they will be bad picks. All trolling aside, it is not possible to tell yet.
