Better Cabinet appointments would be possible if:

[arkirk]

That's right! If Trump could only take the enterprise of the American Government on the Shark Tank. The people he is picking are people who do not believe in governance. Not a good idea if your business is government. Trump's people are crusaders each with a target population they want to hurt..Muslims, Mexicans, women, poor people,students, old people.... yup! We gotta real winner here. He's so warm and cheery you would never guess that it is his friends that do all the dirty work.

 

[fromderinside]

Accurate. That sucks bigly.

 

[Sarpedon]

Remember when we thought John Ashcroft was weird, extreme and incompetent?

I mean, he was, but frankly he compares well with a lot of these characters.

 

[repoman]

For Romney I hope Trump takes this advice:

 

[fast]

We gotta real winner here.

You got that right.

 

[repoman]

Farage is being floated as US ambassador to the EU?!?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Better Cabinet appointments would be possible if we hadn't elected His Flatulence.

 

[ronburgundy]

Better Cabinet appointments would be possible if we hadn't elected His Flatulence.

Nah, haven't you heard? Hillary would be "just as bad" or was only an insufficiently "lesser of two evils", so we'd have all the same nutjobs determining her policy.

Let's see how long those who used such arguments to choose not to vote for her and prevent a Trump presidency can maintain that lie, before they switch to new lies like that they never used such arguments, or (like those who regretted voting for Bush in 2000) that there was no way to foresee just how dangerous and destructive in every detail a Trump presidency would be.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

 

[Bronzeage]

We need to recognize one stark political reality. Trump must choose cabinet secretaries from the pool of people willing to work for him.

There is a good reason there aren't any career politicians on his list. They have discretely made it clear they don't want the job.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Sorry, it has to be on wheels, and rolling down the street.

 

[ronburgundy]

There is a good reason there aren't any career politicians on his list. They have discretely made it clear they don't want the job.

The problem is less about the lack of career politicians, and more about his choice of career nut-cases, and anti-science charlatans with as extremist ideology as you'll find in the US.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Farage is being floated as US ambassador to the EU?!?

Nigel hasn't been appointed yet; has he?

 

[Terrell]

We need to recognize one stark political reality. Trump must choose cabinet secretaries from the pool of people willing to work for him.

There is a good reason there aren't any career politicians on his list. They have discretely made it clear they don't want the job.

Interesting point. Last night, or was it the night before, there was a picture on Rachel Maddow's show showing Trump & Romney. Romney's facial expression was priceless, he looked like he'd just been caught doing something.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

This is curious, I must admit.

It almost seems as if his appointments are deliberately crafted to make people call into question the positions themselves, and make the positions as absurd as possible.