Expect this news to be ignored or buried on page 23 by the liberal, mainstream media.Gotterdammerung, the twilight of the gods. My, my, how this reminds me of the last years of my public service employment, working for "aggressive, bullying, hostile, and intimidating" management. As a practitioner of the middle way, OTR knows that such management is doomed to self-destruction. Unfortunately, in a bureaucratic workplace, the destruction is a slow rot that always takes many competent victims down with it. In the same manner, recovery out of the ashes left by these sad tyrants is a long-term process.
Today, we read of Cynthia Stroum, a wealthy Obama contributor and money bundler from Seattle. For her loyalty, the Obama administration awarded her with the ambassadorship in Luxembourg. There's nothing unusual about this appointment. Historically, ambassadors have been loyal, influential, and generally wealthy supporters of the president. In fact, many ambassadors in the early days of the republic funded embassy operations and staffing with their own money. What is significant about Stroum's "reign"in the Luxembourg embassy is the speed in which she rendered the operation into a "state of dysfunction." Fox News has the story here. The Office of Inspector General's report, with a few redactions, is available here.
Stroum's indifference to rules, regulations, common etiquette and the trust of American taxpayers--Republicans have appointed their share of disappointments-- is symptomatic of this administration's poor to nonexistent vetting of its appointees. Makes one wonder if those in charge are merely careless or couldn't care less about their actions.
