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| With an Eye on 2024, a Rarely Bashful Pompeo Grows More Combative | |
| 2021-03-30 | |
[NYT via the generally deplorable Yahoo.com] WASHINGTON — As secretary of state during the Trump administration, Mike Pompeo had little regard for his job’s genteel diplomatic protocols, routinely throwing verbal punches against foreign governments, political opponents and the mainstream media.
In back-to-back appearances in Iowa and during an interview in New Hampshire over the past week, Pompeo questioned the Biden administration’s resolve toward China. In Iowa, he accused the White House of reversing the Trump administration’s immigration policy "willy-nilly and without any thought." He derided Biden for referring to notes during his first formal news conference on Thursday. "What’s great about not being the secretary of state anymore is I can say things that when I was a diplomat I couldn’t say," Pompeo said the next morning, to a small crowd at the Westside Conservative Club near Des Moines. Never mind that he was hardly known for biting his tongue, even as the nation’s top diplomat. It seems clear that Pompeo, a onetime Republican congressman from Kansas, is animated not just by freedom but also by a drive for high elective office that has long been evident to friends and foes. His appearances in a pair of presidential battleground states only seem to confirm his widely assumed interest in a 2024 presidential campaign. Related: Mike Pompeo: 2021-03-18 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov not happy with China Joe Mike Pompeo: 2021-03-16 Chinese Military Bases in The Caribbean? Mike Pompeo: 2021-03-11 Pompeo says Biden administration should push China to allow scientists to inspect labs where viruses are being researched or face 'real risk' of another global pandemic | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 and Halfbright and Colon Blow and... Condi Rice is the only one in recent memory that abstained |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-03-30 15:21 |
| #6 And he is ignoring, much as he did in office, the custom that current and former secretaries of state avoid the appearance of political partisanship. Oh, yeah - like Hillary and John Forbes Kerry were fucking pillars of stoicism since they left that office... |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-03-30 14:59 |
| #5 Biden, et al may only have until January 2023, if the Republicans can take control of either House or Senate — while much can temporarily be done with executive orders for the remaining two years, a large part of their ability to steamroll opposition depends on maintaining a façade of overwhelming voter preference. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-30 14:29 |
| #4 ^ Biden and his handlers have four years to accomplish their goals for this country. They are unscrupulous, dishonest, hasty and rely far too heavily on their ability to pull the wool over they eyes of the voters. But at some point, more likely at multiple points, in the next four years they will screw up so badly that no amount of cheating will give them electoral victory. They will then be faced to choose between openly shredding the Constitution and rule by martial law or ignominious defeat. Your guess is as good as mine which way they'll go. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-03-30 13:45 |
| #3 ^Guess who's going to win? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-30 12:48 |
| #2 Trump, Pence, DeSantis, Pompeo...Republican will have a wealth of strong, viable candidates in 2024. Democrats will have Dominion. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-03-30 12:47 |
| #1 I like this fellow. He provides all the outward appearances of a man who really doesn't give a FOK wat people think. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-03-30 11:08 |