Ayers declines to take WH Chief of Staff position.

[MoonRiver]

Wants "more time with family."

[Rorey]

1. LOL, good decision. NT

[MoonRiver]

3. Exactly! Somebody got the memo, lol!

[malaise]

2. No sane person will join this kakistocracy

Get thee to the greatest page

[octoberlib]

4. He's probably wants to put some distance between himself and that dumpster fire.

He can read the tea leaves.

[dae]

50. Oh yeah

[Wellstone ruled]

5. So it begins.

Darn time with the family,oh boy. McConnell will really go turtle now.

[UTUSN]

6. Bwah hah, as opposed to with The Mob Family!1

[marylandblue]

7. translation: wants more time out of jail.

[kennetha]

8. More time with his family

requires him not to do jail time for conspiring to obstruct justice, which will be the main preoccupation of whoever agrees to become Trumps COS.

[MoonRiver]

11. Apparently he changed his mind after "talks" with Idiot.

[manor321]

9. HA HA HA HA HA!

[Kaleva]

10. Wise choice.

[Garrett78]

12. When Trump uses that line upon resigning, it'll be even more laughable.

[PJMcK]

21. When Trump uses that line upon resigning,...

... we'll know just which family member he'll want to spend more time with.

[SergeStorms]

47. I was going to say it's...

the person whose had all the plastic surgery, fake boobs, collagen shots etc. but then I started to think, "that could be just about anyone in the Trump family. Even Eric."

[kennetha]

13. In general, this look like a bad moment

to be joining the Trump administration.

One of my colleagues at work is headed to DC to take a post in State though. I wish him well. He's a good guy. Thinks he can teach the Trumpistas something about foreign policy. I told him he's setting out on a fool's errand. Put he's near retiring and sees a last chance to help turn the Trump shit show into something tolerable.

I'd NEVER do it, even if I was ideologically inclined in that direction.

[RKP5637]

18. IMO he's making a serious blunder. Plus Trumpistas are incapable of listening/learning. It's a

brain function and tRump has awakened the dormant part of the brain for severe hatred and fear, and god-like cults for about a third of this nation.

[kennetha]

20. totally agree

he says we can't have all these state department posts empty for two more years though and that left to his own devices Trump will simply either not fill them or see to it that they are filled with his idiot cronies whose first loyalty is to him and the family ... look at his choice for UN ambassador as an example.

So he says he feels kind of a call of duty, but he does know what he's getting into. His wife ... well, not his wife, exactly ... his significant other (she refuses to marry him because of his support for Trump, even though he wants to marry her, but they do practically live together ... is really against it.

His post is an important one, but has gone unfilled for two years.

[lastlib]

40. If they were capable of learning/higher brain function, they wouldn't be tRumpistas.

eom

[RKP5637]

43. Exactly!!! n/t

[XRubicon]

14. the best people...

know better.

[lindysalsagal]

15. "NOTTIT!"

"I regret, I have only one head to give to England." One of the princesses who turned down Henry the 8th after he murdered Anne Bolyne.

[RKP5637]

16. tRump's taking on too much water, he's going to sink and rats are jumping ship if they have

any sense IMO.

[malaise]

17. It sure is fun to watch rats jumping

in all directions.

[RKP5637]

19. Yep!!! n/t

[CentralMass]

22. He needs someone who understands him like Alex Jones to take the job ;-)

[Blue Owl]

23. Suddenly Mister "You're Fired" has become a desperate Mister "You're Hired!"

[Takket]

24. "Prospective passanger declines to board titanic as he watches it plunge into ocean."

[paleotn]

25. The hull is opened to the sea...

..water is pouring in and we're going down by the head in an hour, two at best. Want to be captain of the Titanic? Um....no. Think I'll just spend more time with my family. Thanks anyways.

[SallyHemmings]

26. You would have thought that pesky detail was nailed down...oh never mind

[firstwife]

27. That sounds like something came up

during his vetting. I seriously wonder about his relationship with Pence, so there’s that. I thought this was a done deal, from everything I read in the fake media. Curious...

[SunSeeker]

28. Wow. He got turned down by that sycophant?

Not a good sign for Trump.

[kairos12]

29. Not Putin approved.

[SunSeeker]

32. He's Pence's chief of staff. Of course he's Putin approved.

No, Ayers is leaving the White House altogether at the end of this year. What we have here is a fleeing rat:

Ayers, a longtime operative who is currently Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, said in a tweet that he will leave his position at the end of the year but “will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nick-ayers-trumps-once-likely-replacement-for-chief-of-staff-john-kelly-wont-take-the-job/2018/12/09/5ecf5a10-fbf9-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?utm_term=.26b68e48c89e

[kairos12]

34. Touchesky!

Maybe he didn't want to be Ayer to Kelly's job.

[Mars and Minerva]

30. MSNBC says he is leaving Pence too. That says it all. nt

[SunSeeker]

35. Winter is coming for Trump and Pence. Ayers doesn't want to be associated with it. nt

[Mars and Minerva]

42. He and Nikki Haley both see themselves as POTUS someday but...

they need to get out of DC now before the Trump hits the fan.

[malaise]

31. This may increase the tension between the Con and Mother's Boy

Good

[dem4decades]

33. Just shows the dysfunction. They should have known that.

[grantcart]

36. Actually I think he wants to go to Trump's field operations

He's figured out how to get paid a percentage in working with PACs and has accumulated an astonishing $ 30 million in just a few years.

[Mira]

37. A brilliant young man.

I'm finally impressed by one of 45's picks.

[John Fante]

38. Who wants to jump on the Titanic post-iceberg?

Anyone? Hello?

[hatrack]

39. Womp womp!!

[SoCalDem]

41. Pence probably warned him off

this "strong" "beautiful" "never-heard of before" "excellent" opportunity

[littlemissmartypants]

44. Interesting twitter thread...

Link to tweet

Trump will find someone else besides Ayers, and has options of people who would take it, but he hasn't been leaning toward those folks. He usually has a few fires burning on personnel, but hasn't on this one. It was Ayers or nothing.

Interesting thread on twitter.

[dalton99a]

45. +1. Plan A and no Plan B - very, very smart businessman

[Poiuyt]

46. I thought he had campaigned for the job?

i Wonder what changed his mind? He must have know what a train wreck this administration is

[fierywoman]

48. Probably some blond chick at Faux would be willing to do the job.

[Orangeutan]

49. Lol. This clip from "Notting Hill" would seem to be apropos:

First 1:25.

[iluvtennis]

51. More time with family. LMBO.

[djacq]

52. LMFAO!!

He’s already working in one of the levels of Hell with Pence for a boss... Why would he be more immoral to move all the way to the bottom level?

[pdsimdars]

53. And I think he was referring to the "family of humankind". He want to spend time with humans.

[kentuck]

54. Smart guy...

Don't you think?

[Honeycombe8]

55. He was a lobbyist. That's some draining the swamp. Trump wanted a 2 yr commitment.

Ha. He wants a 2 yr commitment, but would fire the Chief of Staff on a whim. Loyalty and commitment work only one way, for Trump.

CNN says Melania was against Ayers taking the job, among others.

[liberal N proud]

57. Why would anyone want the job?

[RainCaster]

58. Didn't want the Fecal Festival

Smart

[Turbineguy]

59. He's got more money than he can spend

at a prison canteen.

[SWBTATTReg]

60. I think that folks are discovering working w/ this admin ends up being toxic to their jobs/...

careers. You think it was bad before w/ the turnover...just wait, w/ all of the Mueller stuff being released.

Scumbag doesn't know how to run a shop or crew what so ever. A walking disaster area.

[JDC]

61. Smart. Wonder if *45 will go w/ a Fox News pundit for the job?

Hannity?

[Blue_true]

62. The blonde woman at Fix that wear her revolver in her yoga pants.

Trump would love that, maybe he would get into the office before noon then.

[BobTheSubgenius]

63. Jeez, how many times have we heard this? More time with family...

...less time in prison.