Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Tillerson and Sessions leaving? Date:   7/25/2017 4:50:17 PM

I think both Trump and Tillerson are getting an education on the dysfunction of govt and the difficulty in getting anything done when faced with a vast bureaucracy that understands that politicians come and go but they will always be there.  I had hoped that they would be able to cause some positive change and lots of good things have happened.  But the lack of messaging discipline is killing them and Trump is the primary cause of that problem.  The dilemna he faces is that the most qualified people for these positions are not going to be much of an agent for positive change.  And those that would be agents for change quickly become frustrated and will leave.  Kind of a Catch 22 but that is what we get for having spent the last 50 years building up the administrative state.  It won't go away overnight, it won't go away without a fight and it may never go away.

As for Sessions, once he offered to recuse himself in his confirmation hearings Trump should have pulled the nomination and found someone that would not be so encumbered.  I don't think he quite understood what this actually meant when it happened.  On the other hand, that would have left Rosenstein as the acting AG and that also would have been bad.  He should have been fired the day Sessions got there, along with every other Obama appointee.  But that is in hindsight which is usually 20/20 and sometimes 20/10.