'The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned'
 

"Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.
Tillerson was actually inside the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land. I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me.
Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f2efc614557b

Rudderless and adrift. Great job, Trump. :rolleyes:

Wonder how they will spin this? Great news indeed.

Then there is this news from this morning.

Mexico’s President Cancels His Visit to the White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/u...istration.html

Saves the trouble of firing them before bringing in your own bunch.

Prob a good new thread topic, but as for Mexico not much publicity or press on the political/economic state of that country that propels so many to risk life and limb to get out.

Maybe we should send the army down there to straighten things out?

Perhaps because there's net negative immigration from Mexico into the US (more returning to Mexico than coming from Mexico).

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/1...ng-to-the-u-s/

I think we tried that years ago . . .

I doubt citizens would be queing up by the thousands to run from a poltically and economically stable situation - why Mexico is neither is IMO a discussion very much worth having at this point in history.

That's not what Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends told me...;)

Bunch of what? Ex oil company exec's to run the State Department?
Should be good if gas drops to $1 gallon nationwide.

Oh--then I guess that doesn't work.

You seem to think a nice game of 'aren't foreigners awful' would be productive. Why?

I'll do some reading this week and see what is what.