Discussion: After 2 Months, Mattis Is Only Trump Pick At Pentagon

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Hmm… shortage of White Nationalist massage therapists?
Maybe they could find some more recent high school grads?

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Rumsfeld did not get his policy chief, Douglas Feith, in place until July

Probably due in part for the universal respect he garnered, best summed up by this quote from Gen. Tommy Franks: [Doug Feith is] '“the stupidest fucking guy on the face of the planet.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/never-trump-national-security-republicans-fear-they-have-been-blacklisted/2017/01/16/a2fadf54-d9a3-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html

There are modern day Republicans who want to work for this administration, but this administration makes it hard for modern day Republicans to tolerate 45’s bull—.

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Sound like Mad Dog favors competence over cronyism.

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Actually, I prefer the quote attributed to Vice Adm. Robert Harward for turning down the NSA job:
“CNN quoted one of Harward’s friends saying that, in mulling over the decision, he was persuaded most of all by the sheer dysfunction of Trump’s presidency, describing the job he was offered as “a shit sandwich.””

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