My favorite football team is The New
England Patriots.
I love the logo. Tom Brady is great.
And then there’s the great Belichek:
“Do you job!”
Our President (and hard-core
patriot) Donald Trump is getting the job done.
As President, he is called to fully
execute the laws of our country.
A big part of the job is appointing
the best people who embrace his vision for governance to carry
about his
program: “You’re Hired!”
He also has to get rid of the
generals, the bureaucrats, and the White House elite who don’t get the job
done: “You’re Fired!”
Hiring and firing are crucial to any
administration, and cannot be overlooked in the Presidency. Creative
destruction is the norm in the best companies. Fortune 500 corporations don’t
stay wealthy and prosperous by clinging to the bottom ten percent who don’t
produce and don’t care. In some firms, the worst performing employees get a
year to look for a different career then “You’re fired!” Sometimes, it’s the
best thing that can happen to you. Just ask Omarosa, who met with Trump and Dr. Ben Carson to commemorate Black History Month.
Abraham Lincoln burned through Union
generals like an irate casting director. They either had “the slows”, wanted
fame and glory (Burnside), or were plotting to take President Lincoln in the
1864 Election (McClellan). Then, he found Ulysses S. Grant: “He fights!”
Lincoln announced. He was hired, and the Civil War finally ended.
Contrast Lincoln with President
Obama, who did not expect his staff to enforce laws. He did nothing when two
Virginia socialites crashed his inaugural ball in 2009. Leadership or deputy
personnel should have lost their jobs in White House security. Election 2016,
and intruders were scaling the White House fence and dashing in 100 feet before
capture. Again, heads should have rolled, but nothing hit the ground. By then,
a pattern of non-enforcement emboldened brazen trespassing.
Same thing happened at the international
level, when Obama spent more time apologizing for the non-sins of the Bush
Administration, then doing nothing after he drew a “red line” in Syria.
The people he hires make all the
difference in defining Trump’s administration. After all, the President of the
United States cannot run the entire Executive branch on his own. It wouldn’t
hurt for him to scale back or remove entire departments. Hopefully, his current
nominees for cabinet positions will ensure a steady dismantling and
decommission of unnecessary Executive bureaucracies (Department of Education,
Energy, Housing and Urban Development).
So far, Trump’s hiring prowess has
been exemplary:
1. Betsy DeVos for the Department of
Education—This woman enrages Democrats, labor unions, and the regressive Left
like nails on a chalk board. What do they hate her? Unlike the wealthy
Washington political class, she believes that every child, regardless of
economic status, should enroll in the best school, not forced to enroll in the
closest one. To US Senator Chris Murphy’s dismay, she also believes that school
personnel should have a right to protect themselves with a concealed
firearm.
2. Dr. Tom Price for the Department
of Health and Human Services. The Left is apoplectic. Price has commensurate,
commendable private sector experience. As Congressman, he has voted
consistently to repeal Obamacare, and has drawn up plans to replace that
bureaucratic monstrosity.
A boss or President’s hiring choices
are not just about getting the job done, but ensuring a successful legacy. The
CEO goes beyond his staff and leadership in-house and looks for quality talent
outside
the firm.
Which brings us to:
3. Neil Gorsuch, nominee for the
Supreme Court to replace Justice Scalia. This is a stable, thoroughly vetted
selection, and he has not even appeared before the Judiciary committee yet. You
and I know more about this federal circuit court judge than previous nominees,
not just where he went to college and law school. Gorsuch lines up with the
core philosophy and erudite learning of his predecessor.
Now to the firing process. President
Trump is getting the job done, and the media’s hissy fit proves it.
1. Sally Yates, Acting Attorney
General
Enforcement of our laws is crucial.
Non-compliance has become an uncomfortable norm in the United States. Obama
flouted the law with abandon. He issued executive orders, crossing
Constitutional limits.
Yates refused to defend Trump’s
constitutional temporary ban on refugees/travelers/arrivals from seven key
countries, the same countries which Obama had previous listed as targeted areas
for concern. Yate’s disobedience was not courage, nor was it honest dissent.
Yates’ insubordination was catty politicking.
If Yates was a conscientious
objector, she should have submitted her resignation, as President Richard
Nixon’s first Attorney General had done to protest Nixon’s order to fire
Watergate Special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
2. Daniel Ragsdale, Acting (as if!)
Chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The press is shaming Trump for not providing
a reason.
That alone exposes how corrupt and
deceitful the Obama Administration had become. The Obama Administration was
routinely suppressing the power of border and immigration control. The fact
that the acting director was sticking to the eight year routine of “catch and
release” or “Do what the previous President told me to” is reason enough to
fire the guy.
Why is the liberal media bent out of
shape over two firings, anyway? They were hoping that the new boss would be
just like the old one. Surprisingly, federal department heads are now expected
to do what they swore an oath to do: uphold the Constitution and protect
Americans. If they can’t do their job, or won’t for whatever reason, they need
to hit the road.
