Transition Team/Cabinet Thread

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Cruz interested in AG.

Watching all these losers come kiss The Donald's ring is amazing. Does Cruz have any dignity at all?

[ApatheticAustrian]

Cruz interested in AG.

Watching all these losers come kiss The Donald's ring is amazing. Does Cruz have any dignity at all?

i totally agree.

and i don't understand it, if true.

why should he leave his safe spot in the senate to get a position at which trump could literally sack him all the time?

[RogueBeaver]

Mattis & Keane being considered for the Pentagon.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Cruz interested in AG.

Watching all these losers come kiss The Donald's ring is amazing. Does Cruz have any dignity at all?

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that the answer to your question is a resounding "no."

[ApatheticAustrian]

this flynn pic could become more important.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Rand Paul: I oppose both Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton for secretary of state

Credit where it's due.

It is nice to see that Rand Paul is starting to act like Rand Paul again. Another great consequence of the Trumpening!

Good for Rand. If only he was like this during the campaign, I'd much prefer him to what we're currently stuck with.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Rand Paul: I oppose both Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton for secretary of state

Credit where it's due.

It is nice to see that Rand Paul is starting to act like Rand Paul again. Another great consequence of the Trumpening!

Good for Rand. If only he was like this during the campaign, I'd much prefer him to what we're currently stuck with.

Eh, the two are totally different animals, but yes, I'd accept either situation. I think I'd prefer an imperfect Trump to an imperfect Paul if only because the bar is lower.

this flynn pic could become more important.

What is so wrong with sitting down with Putin? I think we need Putin more than ever right now. I want good relations with the world's other major nuclear superpower. I don't see how that is so controversial.

[ApatheticAustrian]

What is so wrong with sitting down with Putin? I think we need Putin more than ever right now. I want good relations with the world's other major nuclear superpower. I don't see how that is so controversial.

there is nothing wrong in general with that wish, which is why i have supported obama in 2012 regarding this question and approved of his snarky answer to romney....in hindsight a severe miscalculation.

unfortunately it is my sincere belief, that ...since mister putin's return as president in 2012.... russia became a kind of neo-imperial empire, trying to dominate the states of the former soviet union directly and and - at the same time - topple goverments (through means of money/media/proxy fringe parties) which disapprove of that goal.

since europe is ground zero and moscow is promoting an illiberal model which is, imho, the opposite of the American Dream, i - like many other europeans - look to washington as the only possible global counterweight. however you judge mister trump's connections with moscow, the addition of mister flynn isn't helping in that regard at all.

as an american ofc you don't need to care about our european feelings or needs at all, even while i - as an US citizen - would still be baffled about the possible influence of the FSB during the election.

[Kingpoleon]

What is so wrong with sitting down with Putin? I think we need Putin more than ever right now. I want good relations with the world's other major nuclear superpower. I don't see how that is so controversial.

there is nothing wrong in general with that wish, which is why i have supported obama in 2012 regarding this question and approved of his snarky answer to romney....in hindsight a severe miscalculation.

unfortunately it is my sincere belief, that ...since mister putin's return as president in 2012.... russia became a kind of neo-imperial empire, trying to dominate the states of the former soviet union directly and and - at the same time - topple goverments (through means of money/media/proxy fringe parties) which disapprove of that goal.

One of the biggest foreign policy lies on the left is that when Obama said that, Putin was not in charge. Putin has been in charge, unofficially or officially, since December 31, 1999. I know the Facebook left wingers have tried to doublespeak past this. Medvedev is not a pro-American/pro-West, despite left-wing revisionism. Medvedev is a dangerous, Putinist puppet. It is an indisputable fact that Russia has been on the rise since 2000. Romney was absolutely, 100% right on this in 2012.

[Mr. Morden]

The SecDef "short list" continues to get more crowded:

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/799452143925264386

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[Illiniwek]

The SecDef "short list" continues to get more crowded:

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/799452143925264386

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DEAR GOD

[Classic Conservative]

Fox has confirmed:

Sessions for AG, Pompeo for CIA and Flynn for National Security Adviser
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisSnyderFox/status/799600045804888065

[Senator Cris]

No spot for Christie?

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

No spot for Christie?

Nope.  I think Christie's gotten the memo now that he was used.  Used like a dog.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

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Huckabee loves the kiddy fiddler Duggar and once admitted that he desperately wants to gawk at teenage girls undressing. A perfect match for Trump's values, sure, but are  you sure you want that inflicted on society?

What?

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/02/politics/mike-huckabee-transgender-caitlyn-jenner/

Huck is a perv and a creep.

Come on...he didn't say at all what you are making it sound like he said.  Read past the headline.

he basically said that he would have jumped at the chance to creep on teenage girls if he thought he could get away with it. That's not natural, and is a sign he is a degenerate creep. Combined with the fact that he thinks Duggar is a nice guy, FF; it paints a very suspicious portrait of the supposedly "moral" Huckabee.

He said that he would have wanted to shower with the girls when he was in high school.  He is clearly not talking about himself now.  Plus, he was making a joke, something liberals must not get.
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Was his endorsement of slavery a joke too?

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/mike_huckabee_just_endorsed_biblical_slavery_over_the_modern_prison_system/

[ProgressiveCanadian]

What a disaster these next four years are going to be...

[ApatheticAustrian]

Giuliani still inside track for State, despite noise this week.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/799614950062833665


Bannon and Priebus agree with Trump that son-in-law Kushner should join White House staff
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/799614174859038724

[Mr. Morden]

Predictit market on Secretary of Defense has it totally wide open:

Keane 18
Talent 14
Hadley 13
Mattis 13
Cotton 9
Webb 9

[Gass3268]

Fox has confirmed:

Sessions for AG, Pompeo for CIA and Flynn for National Security Adviser
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisSnyderFox/status/799600045804888065

I could possibly see Sessions getting blocked (depends on the make up of the Judiciary Committee), Pompeo probably gets through relatively easy, and Flynn doesn't need to be confirmed.

[Higgs]

Predictit market on Secretary of Defense has it totally wide open:

Keane 18
Talent 14
Hadley 13
Mattis 13
Cotton 9
Webb 9

I've got some money on Talent, but gosh who honestly knows other than Donald Trump. This is so volatile, new names are added every day.

[Mr. Morden]

Yet another name in the mix for Secretary of State:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rep.-rohrabacher-afghan-expert-putin-friend-emerges-as-state-pick/article/2607504

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[ApatheticAustrian]

bolton is such an outlier in that list regarding his geopolitical views.

[ApatheticAustrian]

after reading stuff like that about sessions...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sen-sessions-praises-donald-trump-central-park-5-controversy-article-1.2756902

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-attorney-general.html?_r=1

.... i guess if he isn't blocked, nobody is going to be.

[KingSweden]

Predictit market on Secretary of Defense has it totally wide open:

Keane 18
Talent 14
Hadley 13
Mattis 13
Cotton 9
Webb 9

I've got some money on Talent, but gosh who honestly knows other than Donald Trump. This is so volatile, new names are added every day.

If I recall Talent was Romney's likely Pentagon choice

[Mr. Morden]

after reading stuff like that about sessions...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sen-sessions-praises-donald-trump-central-park-5-controversy-article-1.2756902

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-attorney-general.html?_r=1

.... i guess if he isn't blocked, nobody is going to be.

I wouldn't say that.  He's a sitting US Senator, so the people who are voting on his confirmation are people who know him personally.  So it's entirely possible that he gets through on that basis alone.  That wouldn't necessarily imply smooth sailing for other controversial nominees who don't have the benefit of being sitting Senators.