Discussion: Dems: Trump Officials Worked With Activists To Target State Dept. Career Staff

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The Trump maladmisnistration couldn’t find someone named McCarthy to be in charge of this latest witch hunt?

According to the Democrats’ letter, Haller also wrote to Trump aide Sean Doocey and other White House officials that it was “easy to get a detail suspended and because she’s a conditional career, we just need to confirm the year she is in.”

What color is the couch in this Doocey’s office. (Not the same spelling as the ones over at Fox but…)

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Gingrich seems to never go away.

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True, Gingrich seems to have the same ability to survive that roaches have. Even a nuclear blast would likely not wipe him out.

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“House Democrats on Thursday accused Trump-appointed officials in the State Department and at the White House of working with outside conservative activists to conduct a ‘cleaning’ of career staff whom, according to emails handed over to Dems by a whistleblower, they deemed insufficiently loyal to the President’s agenda.”

They misspelled “Putin cutouts” as “conservative activists”.

And “Soviet-style purge” as “cleaning of career staff”.

Also, “backstabbing Kremlin mole” as “former House Speaker Newt Gingrich”.

Geez, use Spellcheck or something…

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This reeks of McCarthyism. Gingrich is continuing his War on America, and I suspect that other Federal departments are going through ethnic and other cleansing from the trumpista.

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Under a democratic congress this would be a violation of a bunch of civil-service laws.

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It still is a violation, the difference of course repugs aren’t going to do anything about it.

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Won’t stand independent review. These people will be compensated and reinstated, and drumpfers will go down…

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“Any suggestion that the makeup of the Policy Planning Staff reflects a bias against career civil servants is completely without merit,”

WTF is with these people and their adamant reliance upon mischaracterizing the other side’s argument and/or the issue itself in order to give themselves something easier to argue against? Fuck. The issue isn’t bias against career staffers. It’s bias against career staffers who might have differing political points of view in their personal lives…which is entirely off limits when it comes to hiring, firing, promotion or disciplinary decisions.

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Racist assholes

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Yup, the issue is they are treating every employee as if they are political appointees that they can hire and fire for almost any reason.

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Damn straight.

He’s taking notes from Kudlow, Kissinger… who else is still hanging around?

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Damn clever way to prevent anyone from ever having a substantive argument with your position. See: Twitter, generally.

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He’s herpes. He goes away for awhile and everyone hopes he’s gone for good until he shows up again even worse than before.

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This is some straight-up Soviet-era unAmerican bullshit.

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…And the entirety of the NRA’s argument against gun reform.

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As a thrice married corrupt felon, Tubby Gingrich is in no position to criticize others.

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