General Kelly Discovers Easy Way To Get Trump's Agenda Through Stubborn Congress
It looks like Trump made another brilliant move by bringing in General Kelly as chief
of staff.
Anthony Scaramucci was an unfortunate casualty but he did his job serving the President by
shaking up the staff and firing two huge leakers.
What Anthony did, cleaning house of the ineffectual team that came before, was a tremendous benefit
to Trump – every organization needs a hatchet man – and they never last long past the
swinging.
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It's the nature of the job.
Because after the heads have rolled a smart leader brings in the one guy who can bring
everyone together again.
Enter General John Kelly.
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After the establishment Republicans led by Reince and Spicer and the rest flopped on
the Obamacare repeal John Kelly's job is twice as hard.
But what most people don't know about Kelly is that he once served as the Marine Corps'
chief liaison to Capitol Hill.
"Kelly understands that rather than addressing symptoms of problems, maybe we ought to try
a shot at addressing root causes," Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), who traveled with Kelly
often on overseas missions and introduced Kelly at his confirmation hearing for Department
of Homeland Security secretary, told a reporter from The Daily Beast.
"I'm encouraged that he's been named as chief of staff.
Encouraged."
And he is not the only Democratic Senator singing Kelly's praises.
He reached out to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Because as one senior White House official said,"Tax reform is gonna be a heavy lift.
No reason to write off/alienate Democrats any more than we already have."
Which is a smart strategy for Trump to pursue.
He can pick off enough Democrats with a tax plan and an infrastructure plan and when he
does he will not be held hostage by establishment Republicans who want to force through bills
that directly go against Trump's agenda.
And striking fear in both the Democrats and Republicans hearts will be Kelly according
to one Dem Senate aide who said,
"He seems like an odd person to bring in if you think he's your lap dog.
Kelly strikes me as the type of person who just doesn't give a fuck.
I don't think he cares.
He'll say: 'This is what you should do.
You hired me to tell you what to do…
If you want to get this done, here is a PowerPoint on how to get it done and I will go execute.'"
True Trump will have to give a little to get a lot but that is the art of the deal and
he literally wrote the book
on that.
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