# Should/will Rex Tillerson be confirmed as Secretary of State?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-will-rex-tillerson-be-confirmed-as-secretary-of-state/774603>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-will-rex-tillerson-be-confirmed-as-secretary-of-state/774603 "2016-12-13T07:03:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-will-rex-tillerson-be-confirmed-as-secretary-of-state/774603/181 "2017-02-04T22:18:08Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> So you are saying that the Democrats are more obstructionist than the Republicans? And here I thought it was the Republicans who were the ‘party of no’…

One can only hope, given who it is they would be obstructing.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-will-rex-tillerson-be-confirmed-as-secretary-of-state/774603/182 "2017-02-04T22:47:12Z")

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Next you’ll be telling us that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. You can find that phrase in the box labelled, ‘Things that are true only when people I dislike are in power’.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-will-rex-tillerson-be-confirmed-as-secretary-of-state/774603/183 "2017-02-04T23:20:01Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> Next you’ll be telling us that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. You can find that phrase in the box labelled, ‘Things that are true only when people I dislike are in power’.

Donald Trump goes far beyond being a “person I dislike”.

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