Drain the Washington swamp of Obama cronies/caption
President Trump rightfully fired former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates for acting out". Still this holdover should not have been permitted to stay in office in the first place. Likewise all Obama flunkeysstill entrenched in the federal governments bureaucracyneed to be immediately terminated. Thats easily accomplished with one executive order to pink-slip all residual Obama political appointments.
How many remain like troublemaker Yates or a radical like former Obama Defense Department official Rosa Brooks? For her part Ms. Brooks publicly advocated a military insurrection" to compel two-week Trump from office. How is a coup not on par with nutty singer Madonnas call to blow up the White House"? Thats not free speech thats un-American sedition. Why is it that Obamas minions and Hollywood limousine liberals only appreciate democracy when it falls their way?
As much as Trumps style may be grating or unorthodox what he stands for is apple pie Americanism. Indeed this America First president is a pragmatist and a populist. He wants to curtail government red tape intrusion and overreach. For example he approved the Keystone XL pipeline and wants to champion domestic industry. Thus how is ensuring American energy independencewhile simultaneously providing well-paying blue-collar jobssomething for progressives to get hysterical about? To them is being an unapologetic pro-American capitalist suddenly an impeachable offense?
The only measure that mattered in the 2016 election was the Electoral College. In that result the voice of the American people was crystal clear. Obamas failed policiesand his heir apparentare out. For many good reasons Republicans now dominate all branches of government.
Emasculated Democrats must similarly expel these fringe elements from their ranks. If they continue their obstructionist path they risk further voter alienation and long-term political irrelevancy. Thats what they should really fear: being the minority party in perpetuity.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.