A Political Hack and Fannie Mae Democrat

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American Spectator:

Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are looking for ways to get incoming National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon before the committee. "If you look at his résumé, you're kind of torn. On the one hand he was one of the Fannie Mae Democrats who helped create the financial mess we're in today and you'd like to hold him accountable," says a GOP committee staffer. "On the other, the man was a press secretary and chief of staff to a Clinton State Department that has little to show for itself other than Sen. George Mitchell's efforts, and Donilon had nothing to do with that. Maybe we should just let him go and see how much further into the ditch he can drive America's foreign policy."

The National Security Advisor post is not a Senate-confirmable position. Donilon, who as a member of President Barack Obama's transition team vetted candidates for State Department positions, was thought to have his eye on a senior post at Foggy Bottom, particularly since as Deputy National Security Adviser he directed an inter-governmental "deputies committee" out of the White House. But any major State Department post would have required Senate confirmation, and White House sources say that given Donilon's job at Fannie Mae in the 1990s and early 2000s, it's doubtful the Obama team would have exposed him.

[AceRimmer]

General Jones has already warned that Donilon will be a foreign affairs disaster for a gang of RATS that can't shoot straight on anything.

 

I guess being loyal to 'The Chosen One' is more important than having a clue about what you're doing. How Stalinist...