[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #352 ontloop je verantwoordelijkheid

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 18:51 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Nou ja, het is 'jij quoot'.

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Priebus Wasn’t the Problem

Trump names a new chief of staff but will he listen to John Kelly?

President Trump announced late Friday on Twitter—how else?—that he is replacing White House chief of staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security secretary John Kelly. The decision was probably inevitable given how the President publicly humiliated Mr. Priebus in recent days, but this shuffling of the staff furniture won’t matter unless Mr. Trump accepts that the White House problem isn’t Mr. Priebus. It’s him.

Presidents get the White House operations they want, and Mr. Trump has a chaotic mess because he seems to like it. He likes pitting faction against faction, as if his advisers are competing casino operators from his Atlantic City days. But a presidential Administration is a larger undertaking than a family business, and the infighting and competing leaks have created a dysfunctional White House.

Perhaps Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general, can impose some order on the staff. But then that’s what Anthony Scaramucci was supposed to do for the communications team, only to blow up in adolescent fashion this week by trashing Mr. Priebus and others in public. White House leakers then let it be known that Mr. Trump liked Mr. Scaramucci’s X-rated rant.

The reason Mr. Priebus wasn’t as effective as he could have been is because Mr. Trump wouldn’t listen to him and wouldn’t let him establish a normal decision-making process. Mr. Trump has a soft spot for military men so perhaps he’ll listen more to Mr. Kelly. He’d better, because on present course his Presidency is careening toward a historic reputation where names like Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon reside.

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 18:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, maar een wet die daadwerkelijk dingen repareert ipv kapotmaakt is vast wel bipartisan support voor te vinden.

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Ehh, weet niet precies wanneer dat is, vind de uitspraak over gerrymandering btw een stuk interessanter, maar dat terzijde.

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 19:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Oh, zeker. Maar dat zo'n politieke afgang voor de GOP dat ik betwijfel of ze zelf met zoiets aankomen. De verbeteringen zijn niets meer dan de amendementen van de GOP vervangen door het oorspronkelijke plan. Iets anders doen de DEMs niet.
Trump zou het een enorme vernedering vinden om zoiets te tekenen

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 18:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Wie is de Jacob Wohl dan?

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 19:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Senate Republicans to make another attempt at Obamacare repeal

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 19:54 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:
Alhoewel dit een verkapt Trump(afzeik)topic is, wat ander nieuws: https://oversight.house.g(...)ch-college-campuses/

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 19:54 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:
Alhoewel dit een verkapt Trump(afzeik)topic is, wat ander nieuws: https://oversight.house.g(...)ch-college-campuses/

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 20:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Verkapt afzeiktopic? Op zich wil ik hem best een compliment geven. Maar waarvoor?

Zijn ratings kelderen nu ook in staten die hij won.

http://www.independent.co(...)an-a7862386.html?amp

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 20:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 20:41 schreef pullup het volgende:

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Dat is een van de betere statements. Elke keer de bal terugsturen nu waar hij hoort.

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 20:17 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Heb je die Jacob Wohl-linkjes die je wou hebben nog bekeken?

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 11:20 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Geen linkje, maar wel de conclusie. En verder gaat het er om dat er minimaal 10 republikeinen tegen de skinny repeal waren, maar geen nee durfde te stemmen vanwege de mogelijke repercussies. En dat McCain (die toch niks meer te verliezen heeft) daarom de taak op zich heeft genomen om de derde nee te stemmen.

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En het artikel is hoopvol. Dat er in de VS nu eindelijk weer normale politiek kan worden bedreven.

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Moscow has ordered the US to cut staff at its diplomatic missions in Russia by more than half and is threatening to expel more than 200 American diplomats in response to Congressional approval of tough new sanctions.

The US embassy in Moscow declined to say how many diplomats or total staff the US has at its missions in Russia. But four US diplomats said there were at least 650 diplomatic personnel in Russia, and the total number of staff at the four missions was estimated at more than 1,000.

This includes administrative and technical staff, many of whom are Russians, suggesting that some of the demanded cuts could be made without the expulsion of diplomats.

Two former US diplomats said that, based on past experience, Washington would now have to negotiate with Moscow over how many and which diplomats would have to leave.

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 21:24 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Iemand een schatting van het aantal VS diplomaten in Rusland (of van het aantal dat moet vertrekken om op 455 te komen)?

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Reuters quoted an embassy source stating that there are about 300 US diplomats based in Moscow, with about 1,100 staff altogether between the Moscow embassy and three consulates across the country. If this figure is accurate, the Russian move would mean more than 600 employees would have to leave.

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This week, as Donald Trump publicly attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an assault one restrained observer described as “a multitiered tower of political idiocy, a sublime monument to the moronic, a gaudy, gleaming, Ozymandian folly,” even David Horowitz, the anti-Leftist intellectual and author of Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America, felt compelled to admit something to his Twitter followers: “I have to confess, I'm really distressed by Trump's shabby treatment of Sessions.”
Trump has always been vehemently opposed from the left and distrusted on the right by Never Trump conservatives, who continue to be dismayed by his behavior. But this week as never before, public doubts surfaced among Trump boosters and apologists, prompting Jay Cost to quip, “at the end it's just gonna be Sean Hannity huddled in a corner, quietly whispering to himself that Trump is a great American.”

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Incoming Homeland Security secretary has served 3 presidents

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Elaine Duke, set to become acting U.S. homeland secretary on Monday, has the rare distinction of serving in high-level positions in three administrations.

She was DHS undersecretary for management from 2008 to 2010, tapped by President George W. Bush and kept on by President Barack Obama. After she headed her own business consulting firm in the Washington area for seven years, President Donald Trump nominated her to return to government as deputy secretary and the Senate approved her appointment 85-14 without a hitch.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who was named Trump’s chief of staff on Friday, said at a conference last week that Duke was “a wonderful woman” with deep experience in government. He said her biggest assignment as the sprawling department’s No. 2 official was to bring more efficiency.

Duke will manage an annual budget of more than $40 billion and 240,000 employees. Created in 2003 in the aftermath of the terror strikes on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Homeland Security comprises more than 20 agencies, from the Coast Guard and Secret Service to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest law enforcement agency with 60,000 employees.

Her positions and background have largely kept her out of the spotlight on some of the department’s most politically charged assignments, like deporting people in the country illegally and deciding who enters the country by air, land and sea.

“She is a very experienced person when it comes to all aspects of management in the federal government,” Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security secretary during the final years of the Bush administration, said Friday night. “In terms of ability to understand all management elements in the department, you couldn’t find a better person.”

Duke began her government career 28 years ago as an Air Force contracting officer and worked in the Navy, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Smithsonian Institution before joining Homeland Security in 2008.

Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican who represents Duke’s home state of Ohio, said at her confirmation hearing this year that she was an expert on contracting, property management, organizational change and human resources.

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Op zaterdag 29 juli 2017 21:43 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:

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Zelfs Dawkins nu? Had ik gemist :/. Hij is een fanatiek atheïst, en maakt daarom geen onderscheid tussen christendom en islam. Dat zal waarschijnlijk dan wel de reden zijn?