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Re: TRUMP has issued EDICT requiring all US AMBASSADORS to leave their foreign posts BEFORE Inauguration Day...."WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS!" 

By: Decomposed in POPE IV | Recommend this post (3)
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re: "In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions ... to remain in place for weeks or months."

That makes sense, given the hostile transition Obama has led. We could have seen this coming:

When the Clintons left the White House in 2001, they trashed the place. That's low class.

When Obama won the White House, he met with President Bush and persuaded him to issue extraordinary debt as part of TARP. I remember that well. It happened AFTER the election, on October 3, 2008. I don't think GWB would ever have done that if he wasn't trying to work with his successor to have a smooth transition.

And what did Obama do? He didn't miss an opportunity to point out that his massive annual deficits were smaller than GWB's. In fact, he blamed everything on Bush at every opportunity. Again, low class.

Bush later admitted that he regretted TARP. It had made him look like a fool.

So, eight years later, we have Obama trying to screw over Donald Trump as well. I think Trump is too smart for the man and knows what he's up to, though. This time, Obama is going down. He'll have nothing positive as his legacy... and TONS of negative... and a new President who's likely to treat Obama the way Obama treated GWB.
 





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TRUMP has issued EDICT requiring all US AMBASSADORS to leave their foreign posts BEFORE Inauguration Day...."WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS!"
By: capt_nemo in POPE IV
Fri, 06 Jan 17 7:37 PM 		Msg. 17548 of 47202

In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day Uploaded Image

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html?_r=1

WASHINGTON — 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.

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.

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