{"id":1030,"date":"2014-09-30T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:20:31","slug":"memo-to-barry-fire-some-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Barry: Fire Some People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll assume you know that &#8216;Barry&#8217; is President O.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he could start with himself, but I guess we&#8217;re stuck with him for a couple more years. Your board of directors (us) doesn&#8217;t think much of you, and would probably fire you if you were in fact a CEO, but politics has different game rules.<\/p>\n<p>Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal had the right idea: Barry better call Bush to review personnel. Bush liked Rumsfeld, respected him, but fired him when he didn&#8217;t do the job. Barry should do the same, like a good CEO.<\/p>\n<p>But, in a broader sense, every CEO comes up against the fact that some of his team aren&#8217;t doing the job: Susan Rice, John Brennan, Chuck Hagel. Maybe John Kerry, but Obama hasn&#8217;t given him much to work with internationally. Maybe Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security Chief, but he at least didn&#8217;t get chewed up and spit out by the dreaded Trey Gowdy, famed inquisitioner of Democrats. CIA: Bob Gates, give him whatever he wants to come back.<\/p>\n<p>OK, if Barry were to fire some people, what does he do next? The Dems seem to be a hopeless bunch of hacks.<\/p>\n<p>My thought is, that for the good of the country,\u00a0Barry should hire some better people: Ray Odierno for SecDef (he looks the part, and is a good combat commander), Stan McChrystal for SecState (he&#8217;d terrorize our enemies), John Bolton for UN Ambassador.\u00a0These guys know what they&#8217;re doing. Lynn Cheney for Homeland Security. Ms. Smooth, chip off &#8216;ol block. Trey Gowdy for Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>PS: The essence of leadership is admitting personal responsibility for all those underperformers, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll assume you know that &#8216;Barry&#8217; is President O. Well, he could start with himself, but I guess we&#8217;re stuck with him for a couple more years. Your board of directors (us) doesn&#8217;t think much of you, and would probably &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1030\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[623,160,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}