ALL DC APPLAUDS MCMASTER--RAISES CONCERN

President Trump picked Lt. General H.R. McMaster and everyone in the DC establishment seems to applaud his choice. It is a pleasant change for Trump supporters. But the happy talk makes me feel suspicious. Is McMaster too close to the "deep state" and the military industrial establishment to facilitate the necessary changes we elected Trump to implement?

Even anti Trump CNN seemed (mildly) supportive of the President's choice. Jeremy Diamond wrote a piece for "CNN Politics" yesterday February 21, 2017. The piece shocked only in its departure from the regular negative fare dished out by CNN. While Mr. Diamond did include the requisite CNN negative digs at Trump, focusing at first on the "void" left by the dismissal of General Flynn, and the "rudderless" state of affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) after Flynn was "forced to resign" after only "24" days. Also noting in an aside that McMaster wasn't Trump's "first choice" remarking that Vice Admiral Robert Harward "turned down the job amid concerns of how the White House was being run". That was just the introduction.

But the author finally got to the subject of the piece--Lt. General McMaster. Diamond finally recounts the praise heaped on the choice of this military man by Senator McCain. The Arizona Senator characterized McMaster as a man of "genuine intellect, character and ability" and called him "an outstanding choice."

Much praise was heaped upon Trump's choice of McMaster by all of the normally negative media, such as "Morning Joe", the NY Times and even GOP hawks and "establishment" types. We heard nothing from the Democrat chorus of whiners (leaving out Congresswoman Maxine Waters who called all of Trump's cabinet choices "scumbags"). In fact the praise (excludsing Waters) was so universal that those of us who supported Trump because we are aware of the need for DRASTIC CHANGE in Washington and for radical alteration in the direction in which our nation is headed, MUST BE CONCERNED. If all of Washington, the biased media, the GOP establishment and deep state players as well as the CNN crowd find this choice "outstanding" then perhaps the rest of us should have good cause to worry.