The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Lack of Administrative Picks
Is a Thorn in Trump's Side .
Thursday Top Headlines
by Political Editors: Trump effect: It looks like Apple is bringing back home nearly all of its $250 billion in foreign cash (CNBC).
U.S. poised to shatter records for oil production, gas exports (The Daily Signal) .
Trump’s highly anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards (GOP.com) .
.
Hungry for pork, Republicans and Democrats agree to link arms for return to earmarks (The Washington Times) .
.
House Intel Committee Democrats started the false “Russia on Facebook” story (The Federalist) .
Incoming New Jersey governor wants to create an entire agency to protect illegal immigrants (The Daily Signal) .
Democrats score a big win in Wisconsin special election (Axios) .
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch — movie theater attendance hits 24-year low (The Wrap) .
.
Humor: Army’s new “Holistic Medics” treat gunshot wounds with crystals, essential oils (Duffel Blog) .
Policy: The new threat children face 45 years after Roe v. Wade (The Daily Signal) .
Policy: A work requirement for Medicaid isn’t “cruel” (Bloomberg View) ~The Patriot Post .
Bannon and Trump Frustrate
Loose-Lipped Democrats on Failed Fishing Trip
{rickwells.us} ~ scum-Shifty the Bobble-Head, AKA Rep scum-Adam Schiff (D-CA), had a rough day on Tuesday... He’s had a difficult past few months now that his Russia Trump witch hunt has been fully exposed as Democrats trying to cover up for their own misdeeds and undercut their opposition President on the way. It’s a revelation that scum-Schiff is now reluctantly a participant in. He had hoped that Tuesday would mark a return to relevance for him, that he’d be able to elicit enough information from former Trump strategist Steve Bannon that he’d have something new to twist and distort into CNN content, a flimsy facade of a story that could be warped into an attack upon President Trump. It’s too bad for old scum-Shifty that President Trump and his legal team outsmarted him and his cabal of anti-American operatives this time around. Bannon gave them nothing... https:///bannon-frustrate-schiff-dems/
.
.
Report: FBI Agent Shared Russia
Probe Information With Christopher Steele
by CHUCK ROSS
{dailycaller.com} ~ An FBI agent shared the name of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele... during a meeting in early October 2016. That new bit of information was revealed in a column published Wednesday by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Ignatius reports that Steele, a former MI6 agent, met with an old FBI contact in Rome around Oct. 1, 2016 to share findings from his investigation into Donald Trump’s and the Trump campaign’s associations with the Russian government... http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/17/report-fbi-agent-shared-russia-probe-information-with-christopher-steele/?utm_medium=email.
Ted CRUZ GRILLS and WARNS Social Media
Executives About CENSORSHIP Of Conservatives
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) had the opportunity on Wednesday to question representatives of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter... about their censorship of conservative content. If they have their way, you’ll never know about it. You won’t see the video or read this article. The hearings came on the heels of an announcement of increased censorship by the fiendish Mark Zuckerberg, that Facebook will be making it much more difficult for those using that company to find content such as this video and article. Unfortunately Cruz didn’t have enough time to interview the wretched Facebook hag, a bug-eating man-hater from all appearances and most certainly a Democrat libtard, named Bickert. He spent most of his time going back and forth with the deceptive representative of Twitter. All three engage in censorship and demonetization of conservatives – none of them admitted to it despite being under oath... https://rickwells.us/cruz-grills-warns-censorship/.
Press Sec. Sanders ‘Smack’s’ Sen. RINO-Flake For His Comparison Of Trump To Stalin.
Todd Starnes: CNN’s scum-Jim Acosta Should Be Removed From Press Corps.
Dem Rep. Gutierrez Relents, Apologizes To Gen. Kelly After Calling Him “A Disgrace To The Uniform”.
Bob Dole Awarded Medal of Honor .
.
Lack of Administrative Picks Is a Thorn in Trump's Side
by Jordan Candler: In just a few days, Donald Trump will officially mark one full year in the Oval Office, during which time his impressive list of accomplishments has blossomed, with conservative policy reforms and judicial nominations. If there’s one area the president is coming up short, however, it’s in neglecting to fill important administrative posts.
The Daily Signal reports, “Trump has no nominee for 252 of the 633 key positions requiring Senate confirmation, according to the Partnership for Public Service, which tracks presidential appointments. That’s well behind every predecessor going back to at least President George H.W. Bush, each of whom had the bulk of nominees confirmed by this point in their administration, according to the organization.” To name just a few, key appointments are lacking in the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service and State Department.
In fairness, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders last month pointed out, “The president has said before he doesn’t think that every single position in the government needs to be filled. He’s going to cut back on some of those positions. We’ve been focused on some of the top priority places and we’re going to continue filling out individuals. But, we’ve also seen a massive slowdown and obstruction by the Democrats.”
Here’s the problem with that argument: Every second that ticks by only exacerbates the issue of the deep state, and it actually detrimentally handcuffs Trump’s broader agenda. Why? Because career politicians will jump at the opportunity to continue fulfilling Barack liar-nObama’s statist agenda, or at least blocking Trump’s. As The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Moffit observes, “If you are going to drain the swamp, you need the people to do it. You either control the federal bureaucracy or the federal bureaucracy controls you.”
In related news, turnover is disproportionately high in the Trump White House. According to a Washington Post analysis, Trump’s first-year turnover rate sits at 36%, which dwarfs that of previous administrations. For example, of the previous five presidents, the second-highest on the list, Ronald Reagan, had a first-year turnover rate of 17%, while George W. Bush had the lowest at 6%.
Trump is certainly largely to blame for the chaotic atmosphere in the White House, but Steven Bannon, Reince Priebus, Michael Flynn and others hurt themselves and created a lot of their own problems. The bottom line is that Trump needs to get busy filling critical positions. But he also needs to be methodical about it. The wise vetting he deployed to pick Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should be applied to his entire administration to mitigate turnover and avoid needless distractions.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53465
Comments