Mick was perched on the ledge before this fiasco. Ya gotta figure he may not make it through the weekend. Donnie wanted to blame him for the admin staff being so ill-prepared for the impeachment hearings. Now he's learning that hiring people on the basis of "But do they stick up for me?" may not be the best criteria, particularly when "sticking up for Trump" means you open your big mouth when you should've just shut up.

The problem is that these miscreants actually believe the crap they tell each other and that Donnie Johnny's motives are pure and patriotic so they just repeat his misdeed in the assurance that the deplorables just won't care.

Who's on tap to be the next "acting" CoS? Can I still root for Devin? Gotta get his sorry ass-kissing in there to make Trump's suicide drive complete.

There is no Chief-of-Staff these days. Anyone in the position is going to be simply a seat-warmer, sycophant and sideshow. Really, it's a great job for loafer who wants to be paid the big bucks to do nothing at all constructive, watch Trump **** things up all by himself, and cheer him on. Maybe Hannity should apply...

Trump has always liked to run his own show, in person, alone. In business, you can probably get away with that...it's a management style, I suppose. But this scatter-gun "You're fired!" mentality designed to "keep your people on their toes" is really reaping its dividends in government now. Government ain't a business. It doesn't work like that. Of course, everyone but Donny knew that going in... Didn't they! ;)

A lot of that big check will probably go for legal expenses. he is going to probably need the kind of Lawyer who can ask to be billed 500 bucks an hour and get it.

Problem is any CEO in charge of a large company needs a Chief of Staff or his equivalent just for gatekeeping purposes...he can't waste his time running his office staff. You can't really get away with that in a large business either.
But then who said Donnie was a good CEO.
What he does flies in the face of what any good business/government management school teaches.The techniques of running a large organization are pretty much the same.

Don't know how much there is to this, but there is some speculation that Trump is giving serious consideration to dropping Pence from the ticket.
Reason: Only reason Donnie picked him was to get the evangelical vote, and Trump feels that the evangelicals are now tied in so closely to him that he can do without Pence, and he want a running mate who will help him with his weakest spot, which is the female vote.I
I don't know if anybody can help Trump in that regard..too much damage has been done...but the above does seem to be the way that Donnie's mind often works.

It would sure be nice if he could drive Pence to resign. I'd feel that much better about impeachment...and I already want that worse than anything.

I do not like Pence at all, but at least he might have a little spark of decency whereas Trump does not. At this point I am willing to roll the dice on that.
Damn, I wish I could remember the Latin for that that Pelosi used a couple of weeks ago.

Every chance he's had to show his supposed decency, he's gone right to bat for Trump. Even if I shared his fundamental[list] ideology, he'd remain unacceptable to me.

Today's "Christian" fundamentalism is based entirely on hate. I'd be quite happy to see Pence removed before Trump, like Agnew before Nixon.

From looking at his record, there is no reason to assume Pence would be more competent than Trump as President - he just can get bullied into not doing very much.
The ideal VP for Trump is someone who will give him, personally, lots of money.

At least it's an ethos!

The Latin you're looking for is Alea iacta est.

Lately, resigning means you're planning to testify.

I hear that Giuliani works cheap.

Sarah Palin is probably available

I'm kind of confused. I thought I heard a couple of weeks ago that Rick Perry was leaving?

Perry announced he was leaving yesterday. Trump tweeted a thank you for your service today.

Yeah, but those were just (accurate) leaks. It took a bit to put together the goodbye video.

So who's going to fire Mulvaney? Pence?

No, they're not, actually. But they share one thing in common: The CEO and "the board" need to know what the business is in the business of doing. Why does the organisation even exist. And hopefully, how does this organisation do what it does better.

In short (in management school speak): Mission statement, and business practices.

In a private business, Donny's "mission statement" was pretty clearly "Make me as rich as possible the easiest way possible by any means possible while hanging about looking cool with good-looking women in flashy cars with gold stuff everywhere". And his business practices were "Screw everyone else, I'm all right and **** you if you get in trouble". And to be frank, if that's what he wanted then fine. Let him knock himself out trying that...with his own private business.

But that's nothing what government is about. And that's not how government works. But I'm sure I don't have to explain that at all.

Donny's problem is he has brought his private business practices into government administration. And within 3 years, here we are...

"...aides and allies started to contemplate the length of Mulvaney’s tenure in the West Wing."

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...e-house-052708

I like the last paragraph of that report: Mulvaney needs to lawyer-up ASAP. He's the one going to take the bullet, not the Secret Service. :rolleyes:

Uh, basic techniques of running a large organization effectively are pretty much the same no matter what the goals are.
I think you are being grossly unfair to private business. Trump's management methods would not be tolerated at most large businesses.

Uh oh, not looking good for Mulvaney at all

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...bfcL&ocid=iehp

I think it's a question not of if, but when.

Who would sign up to be WH CoS during an impeachment?

As usual, Trump insists on ******* all over the place, then complains that people aren't cleaning it up fast enough.

That has been cited as the only reason Mulvany is still around.
But if messes up one more time.....

Having worked in both for many years each, I know there are some notable differences. Basically, private is profit-driven, public is service-driven. Different "mission statements".

I agree. Trump's methods would be actively and rapidly stopped by any ethical business which wants to be a successful ongoing enterprise.

My point is if it his own private business then he can do it his way if he wants. And good luck to all who sail in that ship! Trump has always been involved in the dodgiest of dealings and the worst of the underworld shysters. He is a complete dummy, and they have always played him like a fiddle. Which is why Putin has his pale white balls in his desk drawer now.

But the US government is not Trump's own private business. It's owned by the US public and it is service-oriented, not profit-oriented. So his "business methods" not only don't apply, they are diametrically opposite to those required for the job. Which is why he cannot understand why he is being bolloxed for "doing what he always does".

Well, if you throw you lot in with a racist and a traitor, you get what you deserve.

Heck, I'd give it a whirl. What could go wrong?

You could end up in prison. See Bob Halderman.

They wouldn't have to be CoS. They'll only be 'acting' one on TV.

Just take the salary, and don't bother coming to the office. Trump does all the "CoS" stuff anyway - let him.

I could manage that.

Most of us could. If you don't mind the government cost wastage, by all means do it!

They're gonna pay somebody to do it, no matter what I mind.

Anyone else listen to The Daily, the podcast from the New York Times?

There's an interview with former VA Secretary David Shulkin about how he got pushed out of his job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/p...p-ukraine.html

Thanks for sharing this. Starting to see a pattern, here.

Can I get a synopsis of what Shulkin says?

I don't know about that interview, but this is a decent read:

https://time.com/5701364/david-shulkin-donald-trump/

Interesting. The thing that struck me most about his interview with Trump was that Trump never listened to Shulkin. He'd ask a question and then interrupt before Shulkin could answer. It was also not surprising to see Trump ask the same question over and over again but not listen to the answer or attempted answer. It indicates he didn't really wanted or cared to listen to anything Shulkin had to say.

It really did sound like a skit right out of SNL.

Sorry for not answering sooner.

This is a pretty good synopsis:

https://www.businessinsider.com/davi...ouster-2019-10

I do remember how it was reported at the time. As if his wife was taking a taxpayer-funded junket to go shopping in Europe. In fact she is also a doctor and had been invited to attend the same conference with the Secretary, and it had all been approved by the VA in advance. There was a group of political appointees who wanted him fired from early on because they basically wanted to privatize the VA. Get rid of the whole VA system and just let veterans get their care in the private sector (the government would pay for the care, kinda like with Medicare).

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ltered-vpx.cnn

Seems like the stress is getting to Conway. So be it to traitors.

I hope her anonymous book sells well. ;)

She's looking a LOT older... Maybe Donny could replace her with a younger version now?

Another resignation in protest from a top civil servant just tryna get **** done.

https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1187794988878483458

:newlol

Mulvaney was kept totally out of the loop on the Baghdadi hit. Not good at all for his prosepcts of being WH COS very much longer.

Meh. Did he have a need to know? Not really.

He didn't need to know but COS is a senior position at the white house.

Obama's CoS was right there in the situation room during the Bin Laden raid.