Trump's Growing Cabinet of Powerful Congressmen

With the variety of Cabinet and Agency appointments, President Trump can now partially reshape the Congressional Conservative complexion.

Interior Secretary Zinke

1)  Ryan K Zinke leaves his slot as Congressman from Montana to serve as Secretary of the Interior, bringing new lifeblood and considerable experience to the office.

    a)  An outdoorsman and career US Navy SEAL, he will likely reorganize his department and depoliticize it.  For one, he gains the immediate respect of the national Park Police, who were mortified facing off with angry Veterans who found their Military monuments closed or cordoned off by Obama.

   b)  Zinke will likely reshape the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a cesspool of political appointees who have gouged the Indian tribes and violated countless US government treaties.
   

LaVoy Finicum

c)  The Bureau of Land Management will likely go through a major overhaul, with that swamp drained of faceless bureaucrats tormenting and destroying private property rights of land-owners in the West.  We expect an internal investigation of the execution of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, a rancher, foster parent, and spokesman for a property rights group in Oregon.



     b)  His replacement will be appointed by Governor Bullock [D], a Conservative Democrat who will likely appoint a Conservative to replace Zinke.

OMB Director Mulvaney

2)   Mick Mulvaney, formerly Congressman from South Carolina, has been appointed Director of the OMB [Office of Management of the Budget, a position critical to President Trump in managing funds for the Administration's operations.  

      a)  He has monitored crypto currencies [e.g., Bitcoin] and block chain technologies which will become increasingly important in financial operations of the future; notably, President Obama fought the emergence of BitCoin as he could not control this alternate currency.

      b) Mulvaney's replacement will now be appointed by SC's Governor Henry McMaster [R], who will likely appoint a staunch Pro-Trump Conservative to Congress to replace Mulvaney.

c)  Trump apparently appointed Left leaning Nikki Haley to the United Nations, perhaps to remove her from any semblance of power in the South; she had become an embarrassment in pandering to the Political Correct crowd, to include acquiescing to demands to remove the Confederate Flag.  Without the basis of the Governor's position, her political career may be over.

HHS Director Tom Price

3)  Tom Price, formerly Congressman [R]  from Georgia, a physician appointed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS], which houses 80,000 employees with a budget of over $1 Trillion.

      a), will be responsible for reforming and replacing ObamaCare, and has the full support of Speaker Ryan.

       b)  Equally important, Price will likely pull together the disparate elements of HHS which are known for their infighting and inefficiencies, not to speak of their vast oversight and mismanagement of the Welfare system.

      c)  Also important is Price's oversight of the Food & Drug Administration [FDA] which reportedly sold out long ago to the Pharmaceuticals [Big Pharma]

           (1) It has blocked research and development of countless cures for cancers and other diseases.  Oncology has become one of the most profitable ventures in the medical industry, and Big Pharma earns hundreds of billions of dollars each year by charging huge amounts for oncology medications.   

          (2)  It has also blocked identification of country of origin for food and health products entering the US.  Price will be expected to reverse this p olicy and once again demand "country of origin" labels on these products.

4)  Xavier Becerra [D], son of Mexican immigrants, resigned from the House to accept his appointment as Attorney General of California.  He had been Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.

CIA Director Pompeio

5)  Mike Pompeo,  a  Tea Party Republican from Kansas and West Point graduate, served on the House Intelligence Committee [HPSCI] which is now headed by Devin Nunes [who declined to investigate Trump's ties to Russia labeling the charges "nonsense"].  Governor Brownback [R] of Kansas, with the support of Bob Dole, will replace Pompeo with a worth Conservative. 

[Brownback turned down an HHS ObamaCare grant of $31 million]

    a) Pompeo also served on the Energy and Commerce Committees where he gained considerable insight into two of the primary issues involving Intelligence gathering [in previous administrations] which have led to international confrontations.  

    b) He also served on the Benghazi Committee where he slammed Hillary during her testimony.  His close cooperation with Trey Gowdy on that Committee will likely open new levels of investigation into Benghazi and Hillary's connection to illicit activities leading to the deaths of Americans coming to the rescue of the Consulate there.

c)  He has stated that he will not resume the use of torture as a method of interrogation and we suspect he will come to terms with President Trump on this issue.  Common sense will prevail.

[NOTE: During the Vietnam War, we conducted hundreds of successful interrogations, receiving the highest recognition from CIA and DIA for the reports.  None of these interrogations involved torture]

d)  Expect the CIA hierarchy to attack Pompeo in the same ad hominem methods which forced the removal of his W-appointed predecessor, Porter Goss, who attempted to reform the CIA.  This will be an exceptionally difficult task for Pompeo and we wish him well.

[NOTE:  Given the history of CIA, particularly under Obama, we would recommend that the Covert Mission be turned over to DOD, returning CIA to solely Clandestine missions, or, perhaps, eliminating  CIA operations altogether - leaving Clandestine Operations to the Defense Clandestine Service and making the CIA an analysis organization.]

These are critical changes in the House.

The results mean that, in addition to Cabinet Members who have made their personal fortunes based on hard work and enterprise and who have considerable levels of expertise in their new positions, the Congressmen appointed all have superb backgrounds and can be expected to perform effectively and reduce the size of their Departments and Agencies, trimming them to workable organizations rather then massive, faceless bureaucracies.  Think of HHS with 80,000 employees and a budget of over a trillion dollars; there's plenty of room for reform there.

Each of these Congressmen left critical positions in Congress and each will be replaced by Conservative governors.  The replacements will likely not be neophytes, but will challenge the incumbent GOP leadership under President Trump.

It's a new dawn in Congress, and The [corrupt] Establishment is losing its grip.  

Intel Agencies Break Law

This is another of our Guest Commentaries.

This is particularly of note due to the assault on Mike Flynn, who has done nothing 

amiss other than to fail to discuss his actions with the Vice President.  

His discussions with the Russian Ambassador were completely 

within the purview of the National Security Advisor, 

and well within the bounds of his predecessors, 

e.g., Henry Kissinger and Vernon Walters.

However, since we have worked closely with the NSA and the Department of Justice

 in earlier years, we note that the senior officials in the Intelligence Community

 have not only acted in a partisan political manner, they have broken the law.  

We publish this account to encourage Mr Trump to eliminate the top third of 

the National Intelligence Directorate -- including Clapper and Brennan, 

and withdraw their clearances and access to the agencies.

We remind our readers of the reasons that
Trump Dissed the Intel Community.

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Political Appointees in Intel Agencies Repeatedly 

Broke the Law To Take Out General Flynn

By:  Captain Joseph R. John

15 FEB, 2017,    Op Ed # 336

Nine appointees in the Obama administration, from one or more intelligence agencies, possibly NSA, CIA, or DNI, were involved in leaking sensitive information to the press that resulted in General Mike Flynn’s resignation as the National Security Advisor.  

The nine individuals were political activists opposed to President Trump; they released transcripts of recorded phone conversations to the press of General Flynn's conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the US 
(by law, the name of any US Citizen in such a classified transcript must be redacted, hiding their identity from the press - this was not done, thus violating federal law). 

General Flynn did not violate any laws in his conversations with the Russian Ambassador, and there was no collusion during the election.  

General Flynn failed to provide President Trump with complete information about the conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador, and misled Vice President Pence, resulting in the need for his departure.

Because of the degree of sensitivity of the information, only senior personnel in the intelligence agencies like John Brennan, and James Clapper would have received the subject information - [thus, one or all became the leakers].  

The goal of the nine leakers was to take down the National Security Advisor; in so doing, they imperiled National Security.  

The Intelligence agencies 

1) Felt threatened by General Flynn's criticism of how they operate, 

2) Opposed his plan to reveal the anti-US provisions of Obama’s flawed

    Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement, and 

3) Targeted him long before President Trump was elected.   

The FBI will investigate who released the classified transcripts to the press; those individuals should be charged with perpetrating a federal crime. The leaks over time created a nonstop press frenzy, and contributed in large measure toward the resignation of General Flynn.  The interference in domestic politics by intelligence agencies is a major threat to the democracy of the Republic, and a federal crime.   

[Notably, this is the first time in US history that ANY Intelligence official has taken an operational political role (other than Brennan or Clapper -- both of whom have perjured themselves before Congress); 
researching further, however, we have found that George H.W. Bush was acting politically while he served as Director of Central Intelligence -- an issue to now be pursued further]. 

Their success in removing General Flynn as National Security 
Advisor won't be the end of attacks on President Trump’s staff;
there have been reports by Democratic Congressmen that 
the next target will be Kellyanne Conway, 

and they will probably go after Steve Bannon.  

[To date, both have been attacked and ridiculed on asinine personal levels by the Media]

 -- the ultimate target will be President Trump. 

There has been a very dangerous conspiracy underway in the Republic since the election of Donald Trump, the conspiracy has gained steam in the 3 ½  weeks since President Trump was inaugurated.  The conspiracy is being promoted by Obama’s new organization for progressives, the “Organization for Action”; there are 14 National Field Directors organizing volunteers in 50 states. 

The Chicago -based "Organization for Action" (OFA); is being funded by George Soros and is supported by Bill Ayers.  You can learn a great deal about OFA by going to its Web site; and by searching other links on the Internet that discuss OFA’s goals.   

[Ringleaders include Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina, Michelle Obama, and, of course, David Axelrod, who has been linked to the Communist Party of the US].

Obama is the first occupant of the Oval Office to ever mobilize millions of Americans to demonstrate in the streets against his successor on his successor's inauguration day.  

Obama is also the first occupant of the Oval Office to organize street demonstrations, across the nation, against his successor on every weekend since the new President was inaugurated.  

OFA opposes gun rights, supports the immigration of Muslim refugees, supports the entry of illegal aliens, opposes the wall on the Southern Border, supports LGBT initiatives, supports the UN Climate Change initiatives, supports retention of Obamacare, has instituted a massive Alinsky methods training program for volunteers in all 50 states, is promoting Congressional Town Halls demonstrations to shout down Congressmen, is supporting street demonstrations across the nation, etc.  

Soros has funded and trained 32,000 Alinsky-trained radical anarchists to support OFA demonstrations against each new Trump initiative; the goal is to make President Trump’s term in office ungovernable by any and all means.  Soros is funding and supporting the radical left to form over 1000 groups operating in all 50 states, who will stop at nothing to take down and/or derail the Trump administration.

Obama’s Organization for Action, along with the left of center liberal media establishment, will be opposing President Trump for the next four years with the support of many radical organizations.   OFA demonstrators will be joined by organizations funded by George Soros like the Muslim Brotherhood, La Raza, Black Lives Matter, the Communist Party USA, the Nation of Islam, George Soros’s “Open Society Foundation”, Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network”, Moveon.org, the Tides Foundation, Amnesty International, American Federation of Teachers, the Weatherman Underground, the New Black Panther Party, CodePink, SEIU, etc., who have been supporting the massive demonstrations across the nation opposing every one of President Trump initiatives.  

The violent opposition, shutting down free speech, is being promoted by Obama, William Ayers [Obama's business partner in Chicago], and Soros. 

The Trump administration has political opponents on both sides of the aisle who don't want President Trump to upset the way things have always been done in Washington.  Although the Republicans control both houses of Congress, it appears that the Republican leadership will support Congressional investigations into the Trump administration staff Kellyanne Conway and General Mike Flynn.

The Democrats never approved an investigation of Obama’s staff when the Obama administration had control of Congress.  Scandals like  “Fast and Furious” that required investigation were opposed, and Democrats opposed the investigation into “The Battle of Benghazi”.  

Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats circled their wagons to protect Obama.  It appears that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will not protect President Trump in the same way from an unfair congressional investigations being threatened by Congressional Democrats.   

Although General Flynn resigned, the new National Security Advisor, will be either Vice Admiral Robert Harward, USNA ’79, USN (Ret) (SEAL) or General David Petraeus, USMA ’74, USA (Ret); either Flag Officer [or another] will be a strong National Security Advisor.

[As luck would have it, Admiral Rogers was the hero who exposed this coup attempt by Clapper and Brennan] 

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John.  All Rights Reserved.  The material can only posted on another Web site 

or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author.  

It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.   

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt    USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

ObamaCare Reformed

This is another in a series of posts authored by those 

capable of intelligent analysis of complex and 

controversial subjects.  We share on the 

basis of educating our audience whom 

we trust will pass along this

analysis to others.

[via: J Duncan Barry]

"Liberals are notorious for caring about 'groups' of people, but when it gets down to individual persons, not so much. You’re about to see this play out in spades as Democrats cry crocodile tears over the coming repeal of Obamacare.

"You hear it over and over again: 

'This will be catastrophic for the 20 million people who were previously 

uninsured but now have coverage! You can’t take away their health care!'

"First of all, no one is talking about doing that. Any repeal legislation will have a transition period for those who got coverage through Obamacare to move to new plans. 

And second, they will have more choices and better options. Win. Win.

"But liberals would rather focus on quantity, how many millions we’ve given something to, versus quality, what does that 'gift'  mean for individual people.

"The Obama administration claims 20 million more Americans today have health care due to Obamacare. The reality is that when you look at the actual net gains over the past two years since the program was fully implemented, the number is 14 million, and of that, 11.8 million (84 percent) were people given the 'gift' of Medicaid.

"And new research shows that even fewer people will be left without insurance after the repeal of Obamacare. Numbers are still being crunched, but between statistics released by the Congressional Budget Office and one of the infamous architects of Obamacare, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Jonathan Gruber, it’s estimated that anywhere from 2 to 7 million people now on Medicaid would have qualified for the program even without Obamacare.

"That further discredits the [Obama] administration’s claim of 20 million more Americans having health insurance because of Obamacare.

"Multiple studies have also shown that even those who are uninsured often have better outcomes than those with Medicaid. A University of Virginia study found that for eight different surgical procedures, Medicaid patients were more likely to die than privately insured or uninsured patients. They were also more likely to suffer complications.

"And it is important to note that this study focused on procedures done from 2003-2007, prior to the geniuses in Washington deciding it was a good idea to put even more people on the already overburdened Medicaid system.

Try to control your bleeding while we take care of Jose's sniffles

"Additionally, despite what proponents of the law promised, there is little evidence to show that the use of emergency rooms, which have a higher level of medical errors, has decreased due to Obamacare.

"Then there is this reality: While Obamacare has handed out millions of new Medicaid cards, that does not mean the recipients now have quality health care. In fact, it doesn’t ensure they have health care at all. That’s because increasing numbers of doctors aren’t accepting Medicaid.

Useless if doctors won't accept it

"As a Louisiana woman told The New York Times, 

'My Medicaid card is useless for me right now. It’s a useless piece of plastic. 

I can’t find an orthopedic surgeon or a pain management doctor who will accept Medicaid.'

"Keep that in mind every time liberal Democratic senators pull out the Kleenex boxes bemoaning the fact Republicans are the ones trying to take people’s health care away."

We thank Mr Barry for his insightful analysis of the ObamaCare conundrum which continues to reign as the most catastrophic of the Obama legacy.