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In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Why not leave people in place who will do what they can to damage theTrump
administration?
But well laid plans were destroyed when Trump won the election and Hillary was sent to political exile.
Ambassadors make big money so if they want to stay they can do it on their dime.
What does an ambassador get paid?Ambassadors are classified as senior foreign service employees. The 2010 through 2012 minimum pay for ambassadors is $119,554 a year. The maximum is $179,700.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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What on earth was that rant about?
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Goose wrote:
What on earth was that rant about?
A non sequitur response...... here we go again!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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No, it was not a non sequitur. It was a question.
The thing is,,,You just aren't making much sense today.
Perhaps if you were to calm down.
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Yea, the Trump team is ready to hit the ground running ! 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"