Bolton Expected to 'Clean House'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Foreign Policy

ncoming National Security Advisor John Bolton and people close to him are expected to launch a massive shake-up at the National Security Council, aiming to remove dozens of current White House officials, starting with holdovers from President Barack Obama’s administration, according to multiple sources.

Those targeted for removal include officials believed to have been disloyal to President Donald Trump, those who have leaked about the president to the media, his predecessor’s team, and those who came in under Obama.

“Bolton can and will clean house,” one former White House official said.

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A second former White House official offered a blunt assessment of former Obama officials currently detailed or appointed to the NSC: “Everyone who was there during Obama years should start packing their shit.”

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Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/23/bolton-expected-to-clean-house/

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1. "purge". the word is "purge".

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. In Bolton's case, the word is "enema"

[MurrayDelph]

12. Actually, the word I was thinking of

is Kristallnacht.

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13. Not there quite yet.

Give em a few more months, though.

And my money is on "noche de cristal"

[workinclasszero]

20. Like Stalin?

This is a Trump/Putin purge though.

We haven't graduated to death squads in the night...yet.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. Unlike Stalin, I don't think Bolton can execute employees during his purge

although I'm sure the thought has crossed his mind.

[workinclasszero]

24. I bet he would like to

[meadowlander]

32. They're already accusing anyone who doesn't agree with them of "treason".

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

34. Seriously? I was just kidding about the executions.

I bet the NRA already has volunteers lined up for manning the firing squads. With bump stock modified AR-15s, of course. Single shot rifles are so last century.

[jaysunb]

2. About that security clearance Bolton will be needing.

A person under several FBI investigations may not be doing anything.

[stuffmatters]

25. I wondered about that too. Especially with his NRA/Russia & Cambridge Analytica links now evident

I suspect it's not just Fox News & Wingnut Welfare that's been paying his bills since the Bush Administration job.

[True Blue American]

26. Thank you.

I just asked that question in another thread.

Trump seems to be dragging in the scum of the earth. Each one worse than the last.

Larry Kudlow has one of the worst records on the economy outside of Jim Cramer.or Greenspan, who finally admitted he was wrong. Fought Clinton all the way.

[Trust Buster]

3. Pogrom

[Igel]

18. No, not pogrom.

Let's not use that any more than we'd use "lynching," because what's contemplated here is neither.

I go with "purge," and it's the same word I used to think when back in 2009 and 2010 there were all these complaints about State Department career staffers hired from 2001 to 2008 that people were calling for being dismissed en masse. Because, obviously, they weren't loyal to Obama.

That was considered wise and prudent then. I thought it foolish.

If Bolton fires people who are engaging in gratuitous leaking, okay. They've broken troth with their boss. But if he just dumps anybody who, because of their non-work-related views, is suspected of disloyalty, then I have a problem. (I'd also say that I don't think that the producer of a great work of mathematics suddenly become the producer of mathematical crap because he beat his wife, or the painter of great works of art suddenly because anathema because he supports a totalitarian. I don't see that kind of taint by association holding true.)

[Judi Lynn]

4. If Bolton's involved, everything he does will be the opposite of "clean."

He is unable to "clean" anything. It's simply not part of his nature.

[TeamPooka]

5. I will not support any of this man's wars or the troops he uses to changes "regimes."

[DFW]

6. National Insecurity Council

If it's bad for the country, this administration either has already done it, or they will put someone in there who will get it done.

I hope we have Democratic presidents for at least the next three terms, because that's probably the least amount of time necessary to get a start on damage control. It only takes a few seconds to blow up a building. It takes years to rebuild it.

[appleannie1943]

7. In other words, if it is dirty and stinks to high heaven, Bolton will have his name on it.

[cp]

9. Just start with yourself, chum

45's reign will be known as The Deplorable Years

[msongs]

10. night of the long knives nt

[milestogo]

11. Does that mean he will be bringing a military weapon into the White House?

That's how he likes to fix problems.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Natch. But it's remarkable that some Obama people are still there, actually. nt

[mountain grammy]

15. This will get uglier and uglier, if that's possible.

[Me.]

16. Is He Going To Remove Comrade President Leaker?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Getting rid of experienced adults, too. . . . nt

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. So the neocons are back to run the national security shop. Fuck...

and we've still got the TRUMP loons to run everything else. This is gonna get real bad, real fast.

[James48]

21. There will be nobody left

With a security clearance anywhere.

God help is all

[radliberal]

22. Make Amerika Great Again!

purge...

[duforsure]

27. Bolton's own past

May come back to bite him and trump, especially after the investigations connections show he's involved too. Trump is helping the investigators bringing him into this position.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. My money's on Bolton not lasting 6 months

when he discovers he's just a prop in the reality TV presidency. He's going to tell Trump his opinion, then Trump's going up to the residence and get on the phone with his friends, get their opinions and reverse course on whatever it was Bolton told him.

[GoCubsGo]

29. Doesn't he need to be confirmed by Congress first?

I understand they'll only need two republicans to block his confirmation. Surely, there are still individuals left in the Senate who blocked him from being UN Ambassador, who still think he's unfit for any government job?

[BumRushDaShow]

30. No. That is one of the few positions not requiring Senate confirmation.

That is how Obama got Susan Rice back into his administration after she was hounded out as UN Ambassador and declined an offer of SOS position due to GOP Benghazi craziness after Hillary left. It's also how Carolina Rice first came into the Shrub administration before becoming SOS.

[magicarpet]

35. I think you mean Condoleezza ....... Rice

NT

[BumRushDaShow]

36. No. And for this thread from 2 months ago, I meant what I wrote.

[FSogol]

31. LOL, Trumpy found another toddler to play with him in the White House!

[dreamland]

33. Weren't those the same words used by Scaramucci?

And look what happened to him. Here's hoping.