It's a disaster, folks...believe me!

[BULLDOG]

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

Many?

Name three out of "many" that said "hell no".

Do you think that one agency is the only one?

 

[Mousterian]

This really is uncharted waters. Trump is totally unwilling to listen to anyone, and the fact that he managed to con his way into the driver's seat without heeding the advice of those who've been doing it for years just reinforces his narcissistic delusions.
Security is the firsy casualty in this war on common sense, and we'll be feeling the consequences for decades.

 

[OKTexas]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

So how does this compare to other first term administration?

You mean the Trump Regime?

They OP is making a big deal on how many appointments have been made at this point, that information is useless without a comparison to other first term administrations. Is it unusually low or on par?

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

So you're saying you can't answer my question? And yes he is retaining some.

 

[Ame®icano]

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

Many?

Name three out of "many" that said "hell no".

Do you think that one agency is the only one?

Now you're dodging. Since you "know everything", you claimed that he asked "some" people to stay, but "many" told him HELL NO.

I am asking you to name three of "many" that rejected to stay.

Put up or shut up.

 

[hunarcy]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

So how does this compare to other first term administration?

It has slowed over the years. While it took John Kennedy an average of 2.4 months to bring his appointee on board, it took George W. Bush an average of 8.7 months. No recent President has made more than 25 PAS executive appointments before the first of April. In his first 100 days in office President Obama had filled only 17% of his top PAS positions. After their first years in office, President Reagan had appointed 86% of the top appointees, but President Obama only 64%.

 

[BULLDOG]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

So how does this compare to other first term administration?

You mean the Trump Regime?

They OP is making a big deal on how many appointments have been made at this point, that information is useless without a comparison to other first term administrations. Is it unusually low or on par?

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

So you're saying you can't answer my question? And yes he is retaining some.

Nobody has an answer to that. He is just now asking people to stay, and nobody knows how many will.

 

[Ame®icano]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

So how does this compare to other first term administration?

You mean the Trump Regime?

They OP is making a big deal on how many appointments have been made at this point, that information is useless without a comparison to other first term administrations. Is it unusually low or on par?

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

So you're saying you can't answer my question? And yes he is retaining some.

They never answer nor back their claims, but they whine if you don't answer to them.

 

[Kosh]

Seriously people, what have you done?

Kicked George Soros out of our White House.

And installed a Russian Puppet.

More far left religious dogma not based in reality.

Obama is leaving office, Obama did more for Russia and Putin than anyone..

 

[hunarcy]

JUST TODAY the Trumpers asked over 50 Obama administration officials to stay on until the new administration can get their shit together!!!! Three have said no, because . . . they were only asked the day before they are leaving!

Do the Trumpanzees not realize that these people have been making plans ever since the election for their post-government lives?

And this: out of 690 positions that must be confirmed by the Senate, Trump has nominated a grand total of . . . 30!


It's a disaster, folks . . . believe me!

It took George W. Bush an average of 8.7 months. No recent President has made more than 25 PAS executive appointments before the first of April. In his first 100 days in office President Obama had filled only 17% of his top PAS positions. After their first years in office, President Reagan had appointed 86% of the top appointees, but President Obama only 64%. Don't think it is a disaster.

 

[westwall]

OMG!!!!! What would we do without gubermint! Because the states can't run their business without input from the federal gubermint!!!!! You mean someone isn't in charge of the commerce department and that it might take a few months to fill that lofty position??? OMG!!! We are dooooomed!!!!!


**** this federal "gubermint"...nothing but a corporate entity that produces nothing while acting like a parasitic entity.

Now leftards? They can never get enough "gubermint"...they want a gubermint within a gubermint that creates more gubermint and leftards crave for the state to micro-manage every aspect of their lives and provide them cradle to grave protection because it's all about entitlements and subsidies and what can their beloved "gubermint" do for them instead of seeing what it has done to them. If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times....the leftard clown posse are really communists at heart that worship the state.

Texas is the biggest sucker on the gubermint teat, twit. You must be so proud to be so stupid.

Once again you are lying. Texas has more military bases, and they are huge, than any other state. That's why they get the federal dollars you lying sack of poo.

 

[OKTexas]

So how does this compare to other first term administration?

You mean the Trump Regime?

They OP is making a big deal on how many appointments have been made at this point, that information is useless without a comparison to other first term administrations. Is it unusually low or on par?

Past presidents have asked people to stay on until new personnel could be named, but that was done beforehand, and people were found to fill in for the ones who chose not to stay. Trump didn't bother to do that. Outgoing people were given their discharge orders with no mention of a request to stay for a while longer. Obama told him and his staff everything he needed to know about the transition, but Trump was to stupid and lazy to do it. Today, he got around to asking some people to stay, but many of them told him HELL NO. Now we won't have the staff required to manage our nuclear arsenal, as well as countless other agencies Aren't you proud?

So you're saying you can't answer my question? And yes he is retaining some.

Nobody has an answer to that. He is just now asking people to stay, and nobody knows how many will.

You might want to read post #22. Someone does have a pretty good answer.

 

[Dragonlady]

Sooner or later Trump will drain the swamp and the best advice for democrat drones is to resign before they are thrown the hell out.

He's not draining the swamp because there isn't one. He's keeping Obama's people because he has no team, no policies, and no plans. He spent the 2 1/2 months since the election doing his Victory Tour and sending out Tweet insulting the media.

 

[Dale Smith]

#2 The country isn't going to collapse in on itself if the newly appointed bureaucrats are not put in place in a timely manner. Frankly, most of them are just ceremonious positions anyway because most of your beloved "gubermint" is compartmentalized. I doubt that the country will fall on it's face of the head of the department of commerce vacancy isn't filled within hours of Trump's inauguration......

Your candidate ran on a platform of "Draining the Swamp". In the 72 days since the election he's managed to hire one person every 2 1/2 days. Without Trumps team in place, nothing changes. Obama's policies will continue, and they will continue to be successful, and Trump will take credit.

Trump isn't "draining the swamp", he's shoring it up, because Obama ran a good ship.[/QUOTE]


Really? The Federal Reserve bank is going to start up the QE program again?????? What "policies" of the Barrypuppet do you deem as successful, ma'am? Because unless there is a drastic change and turn-around in how fiat money is created, we are in for a huge crash of monumental proportions.

 

[Dragonlady]

JUST TODAY the Trumpers asked over 50 Obama administration officials to stay on until the new administration can get their shit together!!!! Three have said no, because . . . they were only asked the day before they are leaving!

Do the Trumpanzees not realize that these people have been making plans ever since the election for their post-government lives?

And this: out of 690 positions that must be confirmed by the Senate, Trump has nominated a grand total of . . . 30!


It's a disaster, folks . . . believe me!

Is that really unusual? How many had your dear leader appointed by his first inauguration day?

I counted 94 Cabinet and Executive Level Positions, more than three times the number names of Trump's appointments on Administration Day.

Presidential transition of Barack Obama - Wikipedia

Once people have been appointed, there's a whole lot of paperwork they have to submit, plus conflict of interest disclosures, a security investigation, and reports to be written for the various Committees charged with vetting and approving their appointments. It's along process.

Obama took over as the economy was cratering, the auto industry was filing for Chapter 11, but after the banks had been bailed out. The stock market had lost 30% of its value. And the troops were involved in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The country was in extreme crisis. He had to hit the ground running.

Trump has the luxury of taking over a stable economy, ISIS is on the run, and he has a non-proliferation treaty with Iran.

It looks for all the world to me like Trump has no intention of firing Obama's people because they've been doing such a great job. Trump will simply take credit for Obama's successful policies.

 

[OKTexas]

JUST TODAY the Trumpers asked over 50 Obama administration officials to stay on until the new administration can get their shit together!!!! Three have said no, because . . . they were only asked the day before they are leaving!

Do the Trumpanzees not realize that these people have been making plans ever since the election for their post-government lives?

And this: out of 690 positions that must be confirmed by the Senate, Trump has nominated a grand total of . . . 30!


It's a disaster, folks . . . believe me!

Is that really unusual? How many had your dear leader appointed by his first inauguration day?

I counted 94 Cabinet and Executive Level Positions, more than three times the number names of Trump's appointments on Administration Day.

Presidential transition of Barack Obama - Wikipedia

Once people have been appointed, there's a whole lot of paperwork they have to submit, plus conflict of interest disclosures, a security investigation, and reports to be written for the various Committees charged with vetting and approving their appointments. It's along process.

Obama took over as the economy was cratering, the auto industry was filing for Chapter 11, but after the banks had been bailed out. The stock market had lost 30% of its value. And the troops were involved in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The country was in extreme crisis. He had to hit the ground running.

Trump has the luxury of taking over a stable economy, ISIS is on the run, and he has a non-proliferation treaty with Iran.

It looks for all the world to me like Trump has no intention of firing Obama's people because they've been doing such a great job. Trump will simply take credit for Obama's successful policies.

Don't know how you came up with 95, I only counted 26 that actually showed the appointment date prior to the inauguration. And if you read the link, he had his transition team pretty much in place well before he was actually elected. He announced his complete team the day after the election.

 

[ScienceRocks]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

Gutting education, science and investment in this country will make this country a whole lot less GREAT!

 

[Claudette]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

No he's using them till he gets his people in there. Every president has done the same.

Grow a brain you moron.

 

[miketx]

I love the sound of defeated liberals.

 

[Dragonlady]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

No he's using them till he gets his people in there. Every president has done the same.

Grow a brain you moron.

Other Presidents have spent the transition period working on the transition, not attack their critics and holding rallies.

He's not ready to take over, he doesn't know what he's doing and neither does his cabinet.

 

[Claudette]

He's retaining Obama's staff to run the government until he figures out what he's doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Guess he's been too busy with his Victory Tour and his Twitter account to both getting to the job of BEING the President.

In a recent interview Trump was asked when America will be great again. How will we know. He replied "It'll be great when I tell them it's great".

He also said he would be showing the American people how he's making the military great again by having military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. Will Donnie have a Commander in Chief uniform with fake medals, like Idi Amin. He went to military school after all.

Seriously people, what have you done?

No he's using them till he gets his people in there. Every president has done the same.

Grow a brain you moron.

Other Presidents have spent the transition period working on the transition, not attack their critics and holding rallies.

He's not ready to take over, he doesn't know what he's doing and neither does his cabinet.

Since his transition came in under budget and on time I think you are full of shit.

Take a hike dumbass.