What the -- ! (Sigh)

 Presidents appoint Cabinet secretaries, but the appointees work for their constituents. The Commerce department promotes trade for companies that do it, the education department promotes schools for people who attend them. It has always been assumed that they are do so in concert with the president's policies and that they are, more or less, political. State and Justice have been exceptions. Forget Justice, for  a moment, if you can. At least Bob Barr is not (at this writing) going to address the Republican National Convention.

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is. 

He will do it from Jerusalem. He will do it "in his personal capacity." Sure, good ol' Mikie always personally hangs out in places like Jerusalem. He will orate from there. He carefully tweeted “Looking forward to sharing with you how my family is more SAFE and more SECURE because of President Trump” on his personal Twitter account.

So, everybody, ignore his job and revel in his wisdom when he orates.

 I can't remember a precedent for a secretary of state addressing a political convention. Neither has anyone else, apparently, because the stories all say it's "unusual" or "breaks precedent." Henry Kissinger didn't slobber over President Nixon. Cordell Hull never said warm and fuzzy things about FDR. John Foster Dulles, who had as much to do as anybody with Dwight Eisenhower becoming president, disappeared for his renomination convention.

 The reason secretaries of state make themselves scarce when the balloons drop, or whatever, lies in the adage that "politics stops at the water's edge." We may argue foreign policy at home, but not in front of the goyim. There is no law that says so. It's only good taste, common sense and concern for the good of the country.

Good taste, common sense and concern for the good of the country mean zippo to the corporation that runs this country, its flunkies, foot soldiers, suck-ups and hangers-on. With these people, it is one blast of flatus in church after another.