January 08, 2017
Trump Appoints Boehner's Boy to do Hiring
Timothy Birdnow
In another disturbing sign that Donald Trump is growing a big gray horn off the tip of his nose we learn the unwelcome news that he has appointed John "Johnny†DeStefano as Director of White House Personnel.
According to Conservative HQ:
"Mr. DeStefano, 38, has no background in personnel or human resources. However, he is a longtime member of former Speaker of the House John Boehner’s inner circle and a former Republican National Congressional Committee staffer.
In 2006 DeStefano was on House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce’s staff and was sent to manage her campaign for re-election. His skill helped Pryce eke out a victory in what CNN called the most closely watched campaign in the country.
Subsequently, when Boehner wanted to enforce his will on the National Republican Congressional Committee he made DeStefano deputy executive director of the House GOP campaign committee.
After the GOP took back the House majority and Boehner became Speaker, DeStefano became Senior Advisor for Member Services & New Member Development where part of his job was to staff the newly elected Tea Party class of 2010 with Boehner loyalists who would not encourage their new Bosses to rock the boat.
While still in his twenties, DeStefano served as Boehner’s political director and became very close to Boehner’s former Chief of Staff Barry Jackson.
Jackson is one of the ultimate Washington insiders. After leaving the government when Boehner resigned as Speaker Jackson joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a strategic adviser and the Lindsey Group as a managing director.
At Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Jackson intersected with serial loser Liz Maier, one of the most outspoken anti-Trump establishment Republican operatives, whose third-party group "Make America Awesome Super PAC†did the ad attacking Melania Trump that sparked the "war on the wives†between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Barry Jackson was also a principal in an operation that funded attack ads against conservative members of the House Republican Conference, including Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Paul Gosar of Arizona and took credit for the GOP primary defeat of Tea Party favorite Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas."
End excerpt.
You don't drain a swamp and refill it with stagnant water. Trump appears to be doing that.
As Daren Jonescu pointed out to me, his fear of Trump is that the man has always done business as an insider and he will inevitably return to his vomit. I had hoped not. Sadly, Trump is appointing some critical people in quiet but powerful positions from the Establishmemt. Too many come from Goldman Sachs, from the Council on Foreign Relations, from the permanent political class.
Look, I get it; Trump has to face certain realities, and the reality is that the political class runs Washington and he is going to at least have to toss them some bones. He'll definitelly do better than Hillary, although we as Conservatives are going to be in a pickle if Trump betrays us, because we are going to be stuck defending him. We went through this with George W. Bush, having to prop up an idiot who refused to defend himsellf and certainly made no move whatsoever to defend US. I think Trump will at least stand his ground. But "our guy" can do more damage than "their guy" to our future prospects. If Trump turns out to be a Trojan Horse we are going to be in one horrible position.
Daren and I had discussed the possibility that Trump was the Establishment's candidate before he became the nominee. It makes perfect sense; the RINO wing was in danger of losing the party to upstarts like Ted Cruz so they promoted a ridiculous charicature to split the conservative vote. When that failed they supported Trump by mounting an over-the-top campaign against him - something designed to get many on our side to circle the wagons in his defense. In essence they would run against their own candidate to give him "street cred".
When Jeb! couldn't break out of primary school numbers it became apparent to the Establishment they were losing control. So who rides in to the rescue? Not Cruz or another good conservative but a former Democrat.
I had hoped I was wrong and I may still be, but moves by Mr. Trump are disturbing me. We may have been played, folks.
Time will tell. We need to keep Mr. Trump's feet firmly ensconsed in the barbeque pit flames. That is our job; keep him to his word. I suspect he's a man to whom waffling comes as easily as it does to Huddle House. We must stop that.
In another disturbing sign that Donald Trump is growing a big gray horn off the tip of his nose we learn the unwelcome news that he has appointed John "Johnny†DeStefano as Director of White House Personnel.
According to Conservative HQ:
"Mr. DeStefano, 38, has no background in personnel or human resources. However, he is a longtime member of former Speaker of the House John Boehner’s inner circle and a former Republican National Congressional Committee staffer.
In 2006 DeStefano was on House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce’s staff and was sent to manage her campaign for re-election. His skill helped Pryce eke out a victory in what CNN called the most closely watched campaign in the country.
Subsequently, when Boehner wanted to enforce his will on the National Republican Congressional Committee he made DeStefano deputy executive director of the House GOP campaign committee.
After the GOP took back the House majority and Boehner became Speaker, DeStefano became Senior Advisor for Member Services & New Member Development where part of his job was to staff the newly elected Tea Party class of 2010 with Boehner loyalists who would not encourage their new Bosses to rock the boat.
While still in his twenties, DeStefano served as Boehner’s political director and became very close to Boehner’s former Chief of Staff Barry Jackson.
Jackson is one of the ultimate Washington insiders. After leaving the government when Boehner resigned as Speaker Jackson joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a strategic adviser and the Lindsey Group as a managing director.
At Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Jackson intersected with serial loser Liz Maier, one of the most outspoken anti-Trump establishment Republican operatives, whose third-party group "Make America Awesome Super PAC†did the ad attacking Melania Trump that sparked the "war on the wives†between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Barry Jackson was also a principal in an operation that funded attack ads against conservative members of the House Republican Conference, including Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Paul Gosar of Arizona and took credit for the GOP primary defeat of Tea Party favorite Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas."
End excerpt.
You don't drain a swamp and refill it with stagnant water. Trump appears to be doing that.
As Daren Jonescu pointed out to me, his fear of Trump is that the man has always done business as an insider and he will inevitably return to his vomit. I had hoped not. Sadly, Trump is appointing some critical people in quiet but powerful positions from the Establishmemt. Too many come from Goldman Sachs, from the Council on Foreign Relations, from the permanent political class.
Look, I get it; Trump has to face certain realities, and the reality is that the political class runs Washington and he is going to at least have to toss them some bones. He'll definitelly do better than Hillary, although we as Conservatives are going to be in a pickle if Trump betrays us, because we are going to be stuck defending him. We went through this with George W. Bush, having to prop up an idiot who refused to defend himsellf and certainly made no move whatsoever to defend US. I think Trump will at least stand his ground. But "our guy" can do more damage than "their guy" to our future prospects. If Trump turns out to be a Trojan Horse we are going to be in one horrible position.
Daren and I had discussed the possibility that Trump was the Establishment's candidate before he became the nominee. It makes perfect sense; the RINO wing was in danger of losing the party to upstarts like Ted Cruz so they promoted a ridiculous charicature to split the conservative vote. When that failed they supported Trump by mounting an over-the-top campaign against him - something designed to get many on our side to circle the wagons in his defense. In essence they would run against their own candidate to give him "street cred".
When Jeb! couldn't break out of primary school numbers it became apparent to the Establishment they were losing control. So who rides in to the rescue? Not Cruz or another good conservative but a former Democrat.
I had hoped I was wrong and I may still be, but moves by Mr. Trump are disturbing me. We may have been played, folks.
Time will tell. We need to keep Mr. Trump's feet firmly ensconsed in the barbeque pit flames. That is our job; keep him to his word. I suspect he's a man to whom waffling comes as easily as it does to Huddle House. We must stop that.
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