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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKellyanne Conway bitching...
..about losing a job she wasn't doing in the first place . She criticized Biden for breaching Presidential norms...is that not rich?
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Kellyanne Conway bitching... (Original Post)
Septua
Sep 2021
OP
Isn't this akin to new Presidents requesting that ambassadors tender their resignations
no_hypocrisy
Sep 2021
#4
I don't think they thought anyone would go down that deep into the recesses
BumRushDaShow
Sep 2021
#8
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lastlib
(23,224 posts)2. bitches gonna bitch............
G'bye Lizard Lady! When you're burning in Hell, I promise I won't piss on ya to put it out.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)3. Her former boss breached human norms. n/t
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)4. Isn't this akin to new Presidents requesting that ambassadors tender their resignations
to allow nominees to replace them?
In this case, Conway, Spicer, and McMaster were presumably plants for Trump.
maxrandb
(15,324 posts)5. She wasn't fired
She's just become alternatively employed
tanyev
(42,552 posts)7. Good opinion piece. Here's a few paragraphs:
But to hear the soon-to-be-fired board members gripe about it, youd think Biden had overturned a core principle of American democracy. The loudest of these voices so far has been Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to Trump. Conway was never in the U.S. Air Force. She has no real connection to the service but in the closing weeks of the Trump administration, she was given a position on the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.
Shes yet to attend a single meeting of the board: The last one was held Nov. 18. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hit pause on new meetings early this year when he instituted a zero-based review of 40 advisory committees that provide nonbinding suggestions to the Pentagon on everything from science to military family readiness. (Zero-based is corporate jargon implying the review starts from zero, in this case making each board defend its existence and current makeup.)
Well, the results are in, and that means Conway and other Trump appointees to the boards of visitors at the Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy at West Point are out. Its a list that includes the likes of retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor who once advocated martial law at the southern U.S. border and who was most recently a senior adviser for Trumps last acting defense secretary and its a list that includes former White House press secretary and Dancing With the Stars fifth runner-up Sean Spicer.
The response from the Trump appointees has been particularly spicy given how many of them were unfit for the positions in the first place, with almost all of them refusing to resign. Conway posted her response letter, which accuses Biden of using the decision which has been in the works for months as a distraction from the deaths of U.S. service members in Afghanistan.
Shes yet to attend a single meeting of the board: The last one was held Nov. 18. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hit pause on new meetings early this year when he instituted a zero-based review of 40 advisory committees that provide nonbinding suggestions to the Pentagon on everything from science to military family readiness. (Zero-based is corporate jargon implying the review starts from zero, in this case making each board defend its existence and current makeup.)
Well, the results are in, and that means Conway and other Trump appointees to the boards of visitors at the Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy at West Point are out. Its a list that includes the likes of retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor who once advocated martial law at the southern U.S. border and who was most recently a senior adviser for Trumps last acting defense secretary and its a list that includes former White House press secretary and Dancing With the Stars fifth runner-up Sean Spicer.
The response from the Trump appointees has been particularly spicy given how many of them were unfit for the positions in the first place, with almost all of them refusing to resign. Conway posted her response letter, which accuses Biden of using the decision which has been in the works for months as a distraction from the deaths of U.S. service members in Afghanistan.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)8. I don't think they thought anyone would go down that deep into the recesses
of appointees to obscure positions like these to flush them out, so they figured they could get settled and embedded into a new administration to cause havoc from their "hidden" bunkers.
But here we are!