The Biden Cabinet: President-elect begins to build a team

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The Biden Cabinet: President-elect begins to build a team

 

FILE PHOTO: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks during a panel discussion at the American Economic Association/Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) 2019 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christopher Aluka Berry

 

(Reuters) - Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has begun nominating the members of his Cabinet and White House, working to fulfill his promise to build an administration that reflects the nation's diversity.

 

Biden will name former Obama administration official Jeff Zients to be his White House coronavirus coordinator and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to return to his previous role, Politico reported. He already has named leading members of his foreign policy and economic teams.

 

Here are some recent important picks and top contenders for prominent positions, according to Reuters reporting:

 

CORONAVIRUS COORDINATOR: JEFF ZIENTS

Zients, an economic adviser touted for his managerial skills, was tapped to save the bungled launch of the Affordable Care Act's website for former President Barack Obama. Under Biden, he will oversee an unprecedented operation to distribute hundreds of millions of doses of a new vaccine, coordinating efforts across multiple federal agencies.

 

SURGEON GENERAL: VIVEK MURTHY

A physician and former surgeon general, Murthy gained prominence in recent months as co-chairman of Biden's advisory board dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, which the president-elect has pledged to make his top priority.

 

TREASURY SECRETARY: JANET YELLEN

The former Fed chair deepened the central bank's focus on workers and inequality and has remained active in policy debates at the Brookings Institution think tank since Republican President Donald Trump replaced her as head of the central bank in 2018.

 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET: NEERA TANDEN

Tanden, president of the progressive Center for American Progress think tank, helped the Obama administration create the Affordable Care Act, the sweeping healthcare overhaul that was one of his central accomplishments and whose demolition became a goal for Republicans.

 

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS CHAIR: CECILIA ROUSE

Rouse, a labor economist and dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs whose research has focused on the economics of education and tackling wealth inequality, was a member of Obama's council of economic advisers from 2009 to 2011.

 

NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR: BRIAN DEESE

The Obama administration veteran helped lead efforts to bail out the automotive industry during the 2009 financial crisis and helped negotiate the landmark Paris climate accord.

 

SECRETARY OF STATE: ANTONY BLINKEN

A longtime Biden confidant who served as No. 2 at the State Department and as deputy national security adviser in Obama's administration.

 

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: JAKE SULLIVAN

Biden’s national security adviser when he served as vice president to Obama, Sullivan also served as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

HOMELAND SECURITY: ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS

A Cuba-born lawyer will be the first Latino and first immigrant to head the department if confirmed as secretary of homeland security. As head of Citizenship and Immigration Services under Obama, Mayorkas led implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for Dreamers, people who were brought to the United States as undocumented children. DACA drew Republican criticism and could lead to Republican opposition against Mayorkas in the Senate.

 

DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: AVRIL HAINES

Deputy national security adviser under Obama, and previously the first woman to serve as CIA deputy director, Haines is Biden's nominee for director of national intelligence. Haines held several posts at Columbia University after leaving the Obama administration in 2017.

 

AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD

Biden's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Thomas-Greenfield, who will take on a job that Biden plans to restore to a Cabinet level. She is a Black woman who served as Obama's top diplomat on Africa from 2013 to 2017, leading U.S. policy in Africa south of the Sahara during the West African Ebola outbreak.

 

SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY FOR CLIMATE: JOHN KERRY

Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Kerry will act as “climate czar” in the Biden Administration. Kerry helped negotiate the Paris climate deal that Biden wants to re-join.

 

DEFENSE SECRETARY

Michele Flournoy - She is the consensus front-runner for the job, which would make her the first woman to lead the Pentagon. Flournoy served as a top Defense Department official in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, advised Biden's campaign on defense issues and co-founded a consulting firm with Blinken.

 

Jeh Johnson - Although best known as the former secretary of homeland security under the Obama administration, Johnson also served as Department of Defense general counsel in the early years of Obama's presidency and as general counsel of the Air Force during the Clinton Administration. A career lawyer, sources say Johnson is also under consideration for Attorney General.

 

Lloyd Austin - A retired four-star general who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East as the head of U.S. Central Command under the Obama administration, Austin would bring another retired general back to the Pentagon's top civilian post.

 

Tammy Duckworth - The U.S. senator from Illinois, who was considered as a possible Biden running mate, lost both her legs when her helicopter came under fire while she was an Army officer in Iraq in 2004. Duckworth was an assistant secretary of veterans affairs under Obama and would be the first Thai-American member of the Cabinet.

 

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Sally Yates - A former deputy attorney general, Yates was briefly the acting attorney general early in Trump's term before being fired for insubordination for refusing to defend travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.

 

Doug Jones - A former federal prosecutor with a strong civilrights record, he won a U.S. Senate seat in a 2017 special election in deeply conservative Alabama. Jones was defeated this year by Republican Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach.

 

Tom Perez - A former labor secretary and one-time head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has been floated, though he might face an uphill battle winning confirmation in the U.S. Senate if it remains in Republican control.

 

Xavier Becerra - The former congressman who is currently California’s attorney general is also a contender.

 

ENERGY SECRETARY

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - A former adviser to Biden when he was in the U.S. Senate, she served in the Obama administration as deputy secretary of energy, where she led an initiative to address cyber and physical challenges to the powergrid. Sherwood-Randall is now a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

 

Arun Majumdar - He was the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's agency that promotes and funds research and development of advanced energy technologies, and also served as acting undersecretary of energy from March 2011 to June 2012. He also worked at Alphabet Inc's Google as vice president for energy before joining Stanford University's Faculty.

 

Jay Inslee - He focused on climate change during his failed presidential bid in 2019 and was re-elected to a third term as governor of Washington state this year. Inslee has been pushed for consideration in the Cabinet by environmental activists given his efforts to pass a carbon tax and clean-fuels standard.

 

Ernest Moniz – He is a nuclear physicist who served as Obama’s second energy secretary. Moniz was a technical expert on Obama’s team that struck the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program and would bring an emphasis on science back to the department. Moniz has been criticized by some environmental groups for his support of natural gas, in an "all of the above" stance on energy that included renewable power, when he was secretary.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Heather McTeer Toney - A former regional administrator of the EPA under Obama, the clean-air activist is national field director for Moms Clean Air Force. A favorite of progressives, Toney has advocated and trained diverse officials on leadership and climate in over 15 countries, including Kenya, France, Portugal, Nigeria and Senegal.

 

Mary Nichols - The former assistant administrator for the EPA during Clinton's administration is chairwoman of California's Air Resources Board, which regulates air pollution in the state.

 

Collin O'Mara – The CEO of the National Wildlife Federation served as an energy and environment advisor to Biden. Prior to working at the NWF, O'Mara was the youngest person to head up the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, from 2009 to 2014.

 

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Michael Morell - He was the CIA's deputy director and acting director of the agency twice under Obama. Morell is now the chairman of the geopolitical risk practice at Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington consulting firm.

 

Tom Donilon - The veteran diplomat and former national security adviser under Obama helped steer a White House agenda that increased the U.S. focus on the relationship with Asia. Donilon, a longtime adviser to Biden, worked on Biden's first presidential campaign in 1988.

 

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Mandy Cohen - She is a physician who serves as the secretary of North Carolina's Health and Human Services Department, where she has been a major advocate for expanding Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans. Cohen served as the chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Obama, and is also under consideration to head that agency.

 

David Kessler - The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has been a co-chair of Biden's advisory board on the coronavirus pandemic. As head of the FDA, Kessler cut the time needed to approve drugs to treat AIDS and moved to try to regulate the tobacco industry.

 

CHIEF OF STAFF: RON KLAIN

A longtime Biden adviser with experience in responding to the Ebola pandemic, Klain was picked for the chief of staff role that sets the president's agenda.

 

(Reporting by Julia Harte, John Whitesides, Mark Hosenball, Howard Schneider, Sarah N. Lynch, Arshad Mohammed, Phillip Stewart, Valerie Volcovici, David Brunnstrom, Michelle Nichols, Trevor Hunnicutt, Timothy Gardner, Mike Stone and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Aurora Ellis)

 

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[Emdog]

I don't see any caddies, pool boys, tupperware barons in the bunch. I thought Biden wanted a diverse team?

[Tug]

All appointees put forth on their merits and diversity just the kind of folks to get us back on course with a leader who is receptive to council exclent!excatly what we need imo!

[Venom]

Reminds me of that old movie "The Swamp Creature" ????

[Eric Loh]

Trump hiring of who was needed for the job is the antithesis of Biden for sure. Trump's long list of incompetents have left a stain on America and their reputations. The list of incompetents is nauseating. 

A coal lobbyist runs EPA.

A pharma exec runs HHS

An oil lobbyist runs DOI

Banking exec runs Treasury etc etc

Seem conflicts of interest are basically a job  requirement. Biden's team have a big task to cleanse the stain left behind by Trump's toadies. 

[Isaan sailor]

China will approve.

[Phoenix Rising]

26 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

China will approve.

Is that the best you've got??

[twocatsmac]

5 hours ago, Emdog said:

I don't see any caddies, pool boys, tupperware barons in the bunch. I thought Biden wanted a diverse team?

 

At least Joe has a sense of humour adding the man with an obvious wig. 

Edited December 4, 2020 by onthedarkside
trolling name reference removed

[ballpoint]

2 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

 

At least Joe has a sense of humour adding the man with an obvious wig. 

He's given Trump a position?

[Soapy 100]

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

He's given Trump a position?

the court jester

[onthedarkside]

A non-news source post has been removed, along with a name calling reference.

 

[onthedarkside]

An off-topic post on Joe Biden's status as U.S. President-Elect has been removed along with a reply.

 

[Isaan sailor]

6 hours ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Is that the best you've got??

Joe Biden loves China.  He said China rising is good for America.  Most Americans disagree.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

21 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Joe Biden loves China.  He said China rising is good for America.  Most Americans disagree.

 

Yes, Biden said something like that -- 9 or so years ago. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 2011.
 

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He described the two countries as “good friends” in a 2011 speech and said “a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large.”
 

As FactCheck.org put it, “while it is true that Biden has said quite positive things about China and its people, so, too, has Trump.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fact-or-fiction-assessing-team-trumps-claims-about-biden-and-china-124754303.html

 

Meanwhile, we have Trump more recently saying things like:

 

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In the early stages of the pandemic, Trump tweeted and repeatedly praised China. “We’ve developed an incredible relationship,” Trump said in January.

 

and, earlier this year:

 

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15 times Trump praised China as coronavirus was spreading across the globe

 

 

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Jan. 22, Twitter:

“One of the many great things about our just signed giant Trade Deal with China is that it will bring both the USA & China closer together in so many other ways. Terrific working with President Xi, a man who truly loves his country. Much more to come!”

 

 

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Jan. 24, Twitter:

“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736

 

 

[Phoenix Rising]

36 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Joe Biden loves China.  He said China rising is good for America.  Most Americans disagree.

Most Americans voted for him.

[Emdog]

On 12/4/2020 at 11:52 AM, Soapy 100 said:

the court jester

Trump is not qualified to be court jester. Traditionally they had a way of telling the truth in a humorous manner and still keep their heads. Trump wouldn't know truth if it bit him on his backside and the man has no sense of real humor, unless you consider bullying funny

[Kelsall]

On 12/4/2020 at 5:16 AM, webfact said:

The Biden Cabinet: President-elect begins to build a team

 

FILE PHOTO: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks during a panel discussion at the American Economic Association/Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) 2019 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christopher Aluka Berry

 

(Reuters) - Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has begun nominating the members of his Cabinet and White House, working to fulfill his promise to build an administration that reflects the nation's diversity.

 

Biden will name former Obama administration official Jeff Zients to be his White House coronavirus coordinator and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to return to his previous role, Politico reported. He already has named leading members of his foreign policy and economic teams.

 

Here are some recent important picks and top contenders for prominent positions, according to Reuters reporting:

 

CORONAVIRUS COORDINATOR: JEFF ZIENTS

Zients, an economic adviser touted for his managerial skills, was tapped to save the bungled launch of the Affordable Care Act's website for former President Barack Obama. Under Biden, he will oversee an unprecedented operation to distribute hundreds of millions of doses of a new vaccine, coordinating efforts across multiple federal agencies.

 

SURGEON GENERAL: VIVEK MURTHY

A physician and former surgeon general, Murthy gained prominence in recent months as co-chairman of Biden's advisory board dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, which the president-elect has pledged to make his top priority.

 

TREASURY SECRETARY: JANET YELLEN

The former Fed chair deepened the central bank's focus on workers and inequality and has remained active in policy debates at the Brookings Institution think tank since Republican President Donald Trump replaced her as head of the central bank in 2018.

 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET: NEERA TANDEN

Tanden, president of the progressive Center for American Progress think tank, helped the Obama administration create the Affordable Care Act, the sweeping healthcare overhaul that was one of his central accomplishments and whose demolition became a goal for Republicans.

 

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS CHAIR: CECILIA ROUSE

Rouse, a labor economist and dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs whose research has focused on the economics of education and tackling wealth inequality, was a member of Obama's council of economic advisers from 2009 to 2011.

 

NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR: BRIAN DEESE

The Obama administration veteran helped lead efforts to bail out the automotive industry during the 2009 financial crisis and helped negotiate the landmark Paris climate accord.

 

SECRETARY OF STATE: ANTONY BLINKEN

A longtime Biden confidant who served as No. 2 at the State Department and as deputy national security adviser in Obama's administration.

 

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: JAKE SULLIVAN

Biden’s national security adviser when he served as vice president to Obama, Sullivan also served as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

HOMELAND SECURITY: ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS

A Cuba-born lawyer will be the first Latino and first immigrant to head the department if confirmed as secretary of homeland security. As head of Citizenship and Immigration Services under Obama, Mayorkas led implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for Dreamers, people who were brought to the United States as undocumented children. DACA drew Republican criticism and could lead to Republican opposition against Mayorkas in the Senate.

 

DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: AVRIL HAINES

Deputy national security adviser under Obama, and previously the first woman to serve as CIA deputy director, Haines is Biden's nominee for director of national intelligence. Haines held several posts at Columbia University after leaving the Obama administration in 2017.

 

AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD

Biden's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Thomas-Greenfield, who will take on a job that Biden plans to restore to a Cabinet level. She is a Black woman who served as Obama's top diplomat on Africa from 2013 to 2017, leading U.S. policy in Africa south of the Sahara during the West African Ebola outbreak.

 

SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY FOR CLIMATE: JOHN KERRY

Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Kerry will act as “climate czar” in the Biden Administration. Kerry helped negotiate the Paris climate deal that Biden wants to re-join.

 

DEFENSE SECRETARY

Michele Flournoy - She is the consensus front-runner for the job, which would make her the first woman to lead the Pentagon. Flournoy served as a top Defense Department official in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, advised Biden's campaign on defense issues and co-founded a consulting firm with Blinken.

 

Jeh Johnson - Although best known as the former secretary of homeland security under the Obama administration, Johnson also served as Department of Defense general counsel in the early years of Obama's presidency and as general counsel of the Air Force during the Clinton Administration. A career lawyer, sources say Johnson is also under consideration for Attorney General.

 

Lloyd Austin - A retired four-star general who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East as the head of U.S. Central Command under the Obama administration, Austin would bring another retired general back to the Pentagon's top civilian post.

 

Tammy Duckworth - The U.S. senator from Illinois, who was considered as a possible Biden running mate, lost both her legs when her helicopter came under fire while she was an Army officer in Iraq in 2004. Duckworth was an assistant secretary of veterans affairs under Obama and would be the first Thai-American member of the Cabinet.

 

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Sally Yates - A former deputy attorney general, Yates was briefly the acting attorney general early in Trump's term before being fired for insubordination for refusing to defend travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.

 

Doug Jones - A former federal prosecutor with a strong civilrights record, he won a U.S. Senate seat in a 2017 special election in deeply conservative Alabama. Jones was defeated this year by Republican Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach.

 

Tom Perez - A former labor secretary and one-time head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has been floated, though he might face an uphill battle winning confirmation in the U.S. Senate if it remains in Republican control.

 

Xavier Becerra - The former congressman who is currently California’s attorney general is also a contender.

 

ENERGY SECRETARY

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - A former adviser to Biden when he was in the U.S. Senate, she served in the Obama administration as deputy secretary of energy, where she led an initiative to address cyber and physical challenges to the powergrid. Sherwood-Randall is now a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

 

Arun Majumdar - He was the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy's agency that promotes and funds research and development of advanced energy technologies, and also served as acting undersecretary of energy from March 2011 to June 2012. He also worked at Alphabet Inc's Google as vice president for energy before joining Stanford University's Faculty.

 

Jay Inslee - He focused on climate change during his failed presidential bid in 2019 and was re-elected to a third term as governor of Washington state this year. Inslee has been pushed for consideration in the Cabinet by environmental activists given his efforts to pass a carbon tax and clean-fuels standard.

 

Ernest Moniz – He is a nuclear physicist who served as Obama’s second energy secretary. Moniz was a technical expert on Obama’s team that struck the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program and would bring an emphasis on science back to the department. Moniz has been criticized by some environmental groups for his support of natural gas, in an "all of the above" stance on energy that included renewable power, when he was secretary.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Heather McTeer Toney - A former regional administrator of the EPA under Obama, the clean-air activist is national field director for Moms Clean Air Force. A favorite of progressives, Toney has advocated and trained diverse officials on leadership and climate in over 15 countries, including Kenya, France, Portugal, Nigeria and Senegal.

 

Mary Nichols - The former assistant administrator for the EPA during Clinton's administration is chairwoman of California's Air Resources Board, which regulates air pollution in the state.

 

Collin O'Mara – The CEO of the National Wildlife Federation served as an energy and environment advisor to Biden. Prior to working at the NWF, O'Mara was the youngest person to head up the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, from 2009 to 2014.

 

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Michael Morell - He was the CIA's deputy director and acting director of the agency twice under Obama. Morell is now the chairman of the geopolitical risk practice at Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington consulting firm.

 

Tom Donilon - The veteran diplomat and former national security adviser under Obama helped steer a White House agenda that increased the U.S. focus on the relationship with Asia. Donilon, a longtime adviser to Biden, worked on Biden's first presidential campaign in 1988.

 

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Mandy Cohen - She is a physician who serves as the secretary of North Carolina's Health and Human Services Department, where she has been a major advocate for expanding Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans. Cohen served as the chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Obama, and is also under consideration to head that agency.

 

David Kessler - The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has been a co-chair of Biden's advisory board on the coronavirus pandemic. As head of the FDA, Kessler cut the time needed to approve drugs to treat AIDS and moved to try to regulate the tobacco industry.

 

CHIEF OF STAFF: RON KLAIN

A longtime Biden adviser with experience in responding to the Ebola pandemic, Klain was picked for the chief of staff role that sets the president's agenda.

 

(Reporting by Julia Harte, John Whitesides, Mark Hosenball, Howard Schneider, Sarah N. Lynch, Arshad Mohammed, Phillip Stewart, Valerie Volcovici, David Brunnstrom, Michelle Nichols, Trevor Hunnicutt, Timothy Gardner, Mike Stone and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Aurora Ellis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-12-04

 

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Looking at these names, it's obvious the really good potential candidates want no part of a Biden administration.

Edited December 5, 2020 by Kelsall

[billd766]

On 12/4/2020 at 8:42 AM, Venom said:

Reminds me of that old movie "The Swamp Creature" ????

You cannot be serious, man.

 

The Swamp Creature is on his way out and will gone by 20 January 2021.

[2530Ubon]

Bernie Sanders supporters must be livid! The nomination was stolen from him by a DNC organized mass drop out to make Biden the only other candidate. If a couple of them had stayed in, it would be President-elect Sanders right now - with a much bigger majority.

 

Now they don't want to even give him a cabinet portfolio, despite his immense popularity and record of working for the people.

 

Biden isn't going to do anything worthwhile. I would be amazed if he lives through his first term, he's already fractured (laymans term is broken) his foot playing with his dog. If he's that fragile, then we could be looking at President Harris in a short time.

 

If he does live long enough, then I'm sure he'll be a one and done president. He either won't re-run, or he will be defeated by the next polished turd the republicans find. He was merely a vote against Trump. 

 

What a disapointing start. Obama centrists back in the hallowed halls of power with no real agenda or mandate. Progressives need a bigger voice in the cabinet, because it's progressives, the younger voters, who are going to elect the next president. They are the next generation, and filling your cabinet up with old Obama centrists is only going to produce the same old results and disenfranchise a whole generation from ever voting for a democrat again.

 

[stevenl]

6 minutes ago, 2530Ubon said:

Bernie Sanders supporters must be livid! The nomination was stolen from him by a DNC organized mass drop out to make Biden the only other candidate. If a couple of them had stayed in, it would be President-elect Sanders right now - with a much bigger majority.

 

Now they don't want to even give him a cabinet portfolio, despite his immense popularity and record of working for the people.

 

Biden isn't going to do anything worthwhile. I would be amazed if he lives through his first term, he's already fractured (laymans term is broken) his foot playing with his dog. If he's that fragile, then we could be looking at President Harris in a short time.

 

If he does live long enough, then I'm sure he'll be a one and done president. He either won't re-run, or he will be defeated by the next polished turd the republicans find. He was merely a vote against Trump. 

 

What a disapointing start. Obama centrists back in the hallowed halls of power with no real agenda or mandate. Progressives need a bigger voice in the cabinet, because it's progressives, the younger voters, who are going to elect the next president. They are the next generation, and filling your cabinet up with old Obama centrists is only going to produce the same old results and disenfranchise a whole generation from ever voting for a democrat again.

 

Agree with you I would love to see more progressives.

[placeholder]

2 hours ago, Kelsall said:

Looking at these names, it's obvious the really good potential candidates want no part of a Biden administration.

Not enough lobbyists from the oil and gas industry? Trump appointed more lobbyists in 3 years than either Obama or George W. Bush did in 8. The golden age of foxes guarding the henhouse is drawing to a close. Sad.

[Kelsall]

7 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Not enough lobbyists from the oil and gas industry? Trump appointed more lobbyists in 3 years than either Obama or George W. Bush did in 8. The golden age of foxes guarding the henhouse is drawing to a close. Sad.

The topic is about the Biden cabinet.

[placeholder]

2 minutes ago, Kelsall said:

The topic is about the Biden cabinet.

Well, given your approval of the Trump administration, I was just attempting to hint to you that by your debased standards, the Biden administration appointments are stellar. In fact all you did was claim that none of the really good candidates wanted to be part of the administration without discussing why the Biden appointees fail to meet that standard. In other words, you were just trolling as usual. Not providing any analysis of any of the candidates' qualifications or lack thereof.

[GrandPapillon]

Good luck to Biden and his new cabinet, I wish them good luck, but I doubt they will achieve as much as Trump did in his short presidency

[GrandPapillon]

6 hours ago, 2530Ubon said:

Bernie Sanders supporters must be livid! The nomination was stolen from him by a DNC organized mass drop out to make Biden the only other candidate. If a couple of them had stayed in, it would be President-elect Sanders right now - with a much bigger majority.

 

Now they don't want to even give him a cabinet portfolio, despite his immense popularity and record of working for the people.

 

Biden isn't going to do anything worthwhile. I would be amazed if he lives through his first term, he's already fractured (laymans term is broken) his foot playing with his dog. If he's that fragile, then we could be looking at President Harris in a short time.

 

If he does live long enough, then I'm sure he'll be a one and done president. He either won't re-run, or he will be defeated by the next polished turd the republicans find. He was merely a vote against Trump. 

 

What a disapointing start. Obama centrists back in the hallowed halls of power with no real agenda or mandate. Progressives need a bigger voice in the cabinet, because it's progressives, the younger voters, who are going to elect the next president. They are the next generation, and filling your cabinet up with old Obama centrists is only going to produce the same old results and disenfranchise a whole generation from ever voting for a democrat again.

 

 

amen to that, very good analysis

[Meat Pie 47]

6 hours ago, billd766 said:

You cannot be serious, man.

 

The Swamp Creature is on his way out and will gone by 20 January 2021.

Trump staff begin to desert ‘toxic’ White House

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/trump-staff-begin-to-desert-toxic-white-house/news-story/1ea483b9558f8e9de5463ca4cbc4f610

[Kelsall]

9 hours ago, placeholder said:

Well, given your approval of the Trump administration, I was just attempting to hint to you that by your debased standards, the Biden administration appointments are stellar. In fact all you did was claim that none of the really good candidates wanted to be part of the administration without discussing why the Biden appointees fail to meet that standard. In other words, you were just trolling as usual. Not providing any analysis of any of the candidates' qualifications or lack thereof.

Feel free to familarize yourself with and use the ignore function on this site.  You've been on my ignore list for some time.  I started peeking at your posts after you started following me (I have since disabled the abiity of people to follow me), presumably so you could report my posts in a timely manner.  There was another poster in your category who argued with me for a year while on my ignore list ????.

Edited December 5, 2020 by Kelsall

[mtls2005]

I am pleased with this approach, might as well try some professionals, with experience, who seem devoted to public service.

 

It is a stark change to the past four years so probably off-putting for devotees of the current president, with a mostly "Acting" cabinet, made up of lobbyists.

 

25 minutes ago, Kelsall said:

Feel free to familarize yourself with and use the ignore function on this site. 

Done and dusted. Thank you for this sage advice. Actually thought that I had already added you.

 

 

 

[cmarshall]

The appointment that I am most interested in is Attorney General, the most important qualification for which in my mind is a determination to prosecute the Trump crime family to the fullest extent of the law.  It's true that Trump intends to pardon some of them, but the corrupt pardons should be challenged in court, starting with Mike Flynn's.  The Biden administration will be reluctant to prosecute the Trump mafia, but a return to the rule of law requires it.

[Kelsall]

19 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

I am pleased with this approach, might as well try some professionals, with experience, who seem devoted to public service.

 

It is a stark change to the past four years so probably off-putting for devotees of the current president, with a mostly "Acting" cabinet, made up of lobbyists.

 

Done and dusted. Thank you for this sage advice. Actually thought that I had already added you.

 

 

 

Thank you.  You've been on mine for years.