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Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bureau
« on: November 26, 2019, 03:54:33 am »
Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bureaucrats In Charge

A quarter of America’s nearly 200 embassies around the world have vacant ambassadorships, leaving foreign policy in the hands of career Foreign Service bureaucrats like Bill Taylor, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of State Department records found. That includes ambassadorships for countries as significant as Japan, Russia and Canada.

In some cases where ambassadorships aren’t vacant, the Trump administration nominated a career Foreign Service official to countries where Obama had a political ambassador, a DCNF review of data from the American Foreign Service Association found.

When a president has not nominated an ambassador, or the Senate has not confirmed a nominee, a career State Department official called the chargé d’affaires acts as the top position.

It is that situation that left Taylor, a career State Department official and former staffer for Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley, as the top American in Ukraine.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/25/empty-ambassador-slots-state-department-bureaucrats/
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2019, 06:28:49 am »
Good!  Get rid of the swampy deep state and fill those slots with quality ambassadors like Gordon Sondland. /sarc
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2019, 11:44:30 am »
Sounds like a great opportunity.

Leave a Marine Guard contingent and have a Secretary
show up on occasion.

In the meantime fire the bunch.

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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2019, 07:40:11 pm »
Normally these positions are approved in the 2-3 months after a new POTUS takes office.  We are three years in with many positions that are appointed executive branch positions and positions like ambassadors remaining open because Democommies refuse to attend the meetings creating a quorum.  Failure to attend three meetings in a given period of time should be grounds for removal from the Senate.  After all, we are paying them to do a job, and they are abdicating their responsibility.

TIME HAS COME TO IMPEACH DEMOCOMMIES FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2019, 07:58:02 pm »
And nobody misses them.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2019, 10:13:27 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on November 26, 2019, 07:58:02 pm
And nobody misses them.

And no one cares.    Well except the deep state workers sucking off the government teat in the diplomatic corps.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2019, 01:55:33 am »
Who needs ambassadors, when you can tweet to get your message across, diplomatically or not...?
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2019, 02:05:24 am »
   Tillerson was making actual progress at cutting State Dept. BS and probably at the behest of the President but apparently he stepped on the wrong d*ck(s) one time too many and got fired by Twitter.

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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2019, 02:09:16 am »
Given the number of Swamp beasts running around, I can't imagine it's easy to find qualified pro-America diplomats.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2019, 02:22:20 am »
Quote from: corbe on November 27, 2019, 02:05:24 am
   Tillerson was making actual progress at cutting State Dept. BS and probably at the behest of the President but apparently he stepped on the wrong d*ck(s) one time too many and got fired by Twitter.



You are grabbing the wrong dick, Corbes.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2019, 03:56:47 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on November 27, 2019, 01:55:33 am
Who needs ambassadors, when you can tweet to get your message across, diplomatically or not...?

Missing the point.  Inaction led to Bill Taylor who was a former staffer of a Democratic Senator.  But no bigly.  Trump likes to hire Democrats.  You have to actually read the story.
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Alexander Acosta Labor Secretary resigned under pressure concerning his "sweetheart deal" with Jeffrey Epstein.  He was under consideration for AG after Sessions was removed, but was forced to resign instead.

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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2019, 03:24:39 pm »
BFD.  With Ambassadors like the people we've seen in the Schitt Hearings, I'd like to see even more "vacancies."

This problem of loyalty to the US has always been an issue with Ambassadors.  Even Cyrus Vance had to keep reminding them for whom they worked.
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2019, 04:08:52 pm »
Progress!  Keep it up!
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Re: Three Years Into Trump Admin, A Quarter Of Embassy Slots Are Vacant, Leaving State Department Bu
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2019, 11:15:50 am »
Quote from: jafo2010 on November 26, 2019, 07:40:11 pm
Normally these positions are approved in the 2-3 months after a new POTUS takes office.  We are three years in with many positions that are appointed executive branch positions and positions like ambassadors remaining open because Democommies refuse to attend the meetings creating a quorum.  Failure to attend three meetings in a given period of time should be grounds for removal from the Senate.  After all, we are paying them to do a job, and they are abdicating their responsibility.

TIME HAS COME TO IMPEACH DEMOCOMMIES FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.

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