The Left Last Week: “OMG! Are you really claiming Obama was spying on Trump? Is that accusation merely insane or actively treasonous?”
The Left This Week: “Of course, Obama was spying on Trump. It’s called ‘National Security.’ Ever hear of it?”
Andy McCarthy at NRO says that while technically legal, Susan Rice’s use of the National Intelligence Apparatus (You know, the people who were watching Donald Trump’s every move but couldn’t be bothered to keep an eye on the Tsarnev Brothers, Tashfyn Maleek, or Omar Mateen) to attack Donald Trump was an abuse of power. I don’t think the left sees it that way. I think they view the use of State Assets to attack Republicans as quite legitimate. You know, because Republicans are Hitler. Whereas Nadal Hassan was just an innocent Muslim guy; how dare you profile him! Racist!
More head scratching, Bannon bounced from National Security Council
Those two officials are spinning like tops. One official’s excuse — that Bannon was there to keep an eye on Michael Flynn and now his job is done — is as pathetic an excuse as we have seen for an aide’s reduced status. Flynn resigned as national security adviser in mid-February so that cannot be the reason. If we want events with closer proximity, one might look to the dreadful White House statement on Syria. (“These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution. President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a ‘red line’ against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing.”) Bannon’s ouster also comes in the wake of news that an NSC aide whose job Bannon spared was mixed up in the fiasco involving Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Perhaps national security adviser H.R. McMaster said, “Enough!” and got Bannon out of the way, at least on foreign policy matters.
Let’s consider why the move is so important.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/04/05/five-reasons-why-bannon-leaving-the-national-security-council-matters/?utm_term=.2257a145e72c
rusty, don’t think of Trump as a politician, and doing things based on a politicians motives. Trump is a businessman. He does things based upon results. If Bannon was not getting him the results he needed to get done, he gets moved elsewhere.
#3… or if you have a trusted resource that can trouble-shoot, outline a strategy of correction and implement that strategy.. you move that resource to other areas as needed. This goes against most political systems, especially for leftists.
Firing, removing, transferring staff after only 30 to 60 days in is a negative reflection on whoever placed them. Gotta give Trump a few minus pts for that, if you’re honest.
According to John Roberts of Fox News, Trump has not been entirely happy with his political guru Bannon. “We are also told that maybe the President was not particularly happy at the way Bannon had been grabbing the limelight,” Roberts reported before adding, “That may have played into all of this.”
Steve Bannon is an odd duck all around. For someone with his credentials, his pre-White House personal appearance was indistinguishable from Average Homeless Guy. At least he had the good sense to throw on a coat and tie and shave daily after January 20th. To the left (and his opponents on the right) he was the Darth Vader of the administration, even the Shadow President (as imagined by the writers of SNL).
Rumor has it that he is not happy about being eclipsed by one Jared Kushner in the Inner Circle. (Hello, I could have forecasted that and I’m not even a professional pundit.) So the game of musical chairs isn’t all that surprising. There was also a rumor of early conflict between COS Reince Priebus and Bannon; whether true or not, RP has been in the game a lot longer than Bannon and if one has to go sooner rather than later (as is also rumored), my bets are on Bannon.
While I’m increasingly sympathetic to the idea of a single-payer health system, the reality of a weaponized IRS, FBI, NSA, EPA, and the rest of the alphabet soup of our gov’t does give one pause when it comes to ones medical care.
It’s not all that hard to imagine lefties deciding that we troublesome, knuckle-dragging right-wingers should be denied treatments based on social-justice issues.
Given our increasingly invasive gov’t and poisonous politics, one has to wonder if the lefties give any thought to being on the wrong end of the stick.
Let’s see how it plays out. I recall every shakeup during the camapign was suppose to be disastrous but he won. He seems willing to move people around or in and out as needed.
Except, this isn’t a demotion for Bannon who is primarily White House Chief Strategist & he will be able to sit in on the NSC… at his pleasure. Reshuffling is what CEO’s do. This is all a non-issue & the Democrats, Socialists & Progressives are desperate to call it – incorrectly.
If you get your news from the Dem Media Complex, your information is almost guaranteed to be wrong. But we can’t blame just the Dems for again being wrong on the whole issue, even Drudge mistook what happened & implied demotion for Bannon. Meanwhile, Bannon & people like him are laughing. Nothing wrong with unintended smoke screens.