The longer that non-communist Americans are subjected to the Biden administration's toxic cocktail of heavy-handedness and incompetence, the easier it is to feel fondness for almost every aspect of Trump's first three years in office.
The progressives in the mainstream media and their squish Republican brethren routinely mocked Trump for all of the turnover among high- and low-level staff in his administration. To them, it was a sign that he couldn't lead. In reality, it probably had more to do with the impatience he experienced while finding out that power in the private sector is quite different than power in politics, even if you're the President of the United States.
Unfailing loyalty to underperforming or outright inept subordinates is a much bigger failure of leadership than giving everyone a short shelf life, however.
The current nominal chief executive of the United States of America (I'd rather type all of that out than call him "President") not only nominates and/or hires people who shouldn't be running anything, he lets them linger long past any usefulness date they may have had.
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump built his reputation on firing people. Joe Biden has given his team extraordinary job security.
In crisis after crisis over the past three years, President Biden has resisted pressure to fire members of his administration. He rejected calls for the ouster of national security advisers following the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The president has declined to push out cabinet secretaries or senior aides in response to the rise in migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, or revamp his political campaign amid poor polling.
When it looked like his agenda was stalled on Capitol Hill early in his term, Biden made no major personnel changes, and he has declined to remove Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra despite frustration from inside and outside the administration about his performance.
It is not at all unusual for mid-level federal bureaucrats to have careers spent sucking at the taxpayer teat despite providing nothing positive to society. Galling, but not unusual. The uselessness becomes problematic — and often times dangerous — when it occurs in the upper levels of the federal government.
The Biden Administration is a rogue's gallery of imbeciles who shouldn't have lasted more than a few months on the job. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is the first person to hold the position despite not knowing the definition of the word "security." Either of Biden's press secretaries wouldn't have lasted one full shift at a mall food court Hot Dog on a Stick. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has the distinction of being out of his depth in virtually every professional situation.
Because this is a quick column, we won't discuss the Vice President of the United States.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the latest Biden cabinet member to offer himself up for a righteous cutting loose. For reasons that no one can fathom, Austin decided to avoid telling the commander in chief that his SecDef would be getting treated for prostate cancer. Why the most common cancer to afflict men over 50 needed to be shrouded in mystery has yet to be explained.
If, like me, you have a closet full of tinfoil hats after 2020, it's easy to believe that there's a lot more than just prostate cancer happening with Secretary Austin.
Let's set the inexplicable coyness aside for a moment and discuss Austin's complete dereliction of duty. Austin isn't some corporate flunky who is unfamiliar with all things military. He's a retired four-star general who was in charge of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). He has more than a passing familiarity with the importance of the higher-ups in the chain of command clearly communicating with the president.
That responsibility is even greater if you're second only to the president in the chain of command, which SecDef is.
The fact that Austin slipped off to the hospital without informing anyone in the White House is unconscionable. Had he only waited a few hours to tell them it would have been grounds for dismissal. Austin waited four days, he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near his office again.
He has been welcomed back with open arms and the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media are busy trying to make the story about prostate cancer and not the fact that the arrogant Austin gave the finger to his boss and the American people.
Biden's Idiot Squad will remain intact until one of them decides they want to get even more money and destroy the Constitution from the private sector.
This isn't really just about Biden's people for me. I'm a big fan of almost zero job security for bureaucrats, which is why I didn't think the constant churn in the Trump administration was a big deal. I say staff the government with employees from a temp agency who can only stay in a specific job for one month.
I'm very solutions oriented.
Looking at Biden's people, however, makes it clear that the Republic could use some of that Trump "You're fired!" energy.
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