Posted on 11/16/2016 6:38:53 AM PST by COUNTrecount
resident-elect Donald Trump put out a tweet Tuesday night declaring that his transition is going smoothly.
“Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!,” he wrote.
Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016
The tweet comes after reports of infighting among his transition team.
Meanwhile, reports said that Trump campaign finance chair Steve Mnuchin and financier Wilbur Ross were being considered for the Treasury and Commerce departments.
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The media report, Trump tweets, Trump wins every time. You would think they would learn.
That’s right bitches! And I hope he announces his cabinet appointments through Breitbart!
By the way...Will you twitter was one of your dumbest question.
One of my warmer fuzzies was the beat down that the mainstream media experienced.
It was "hoisted with its own petard..."
(Shakespeare: Hamlet)
Puleeze, folks, don't correct the quote. I was just using it for effect.
That would be such a good idea.
Or he could leak them to a special Hannity show where all appear and are interviewed.
THAT would be a shot across their bow.
“And I hope he announces his cabinet appointments through Breitbart!”
I hope he makes all his announcements through Breitbart. Force MSMs to rely on them for their news updates.
Alternatively, he can make them via FR posts.
LOL that would be hysterical
The New York Times fax machine has mandated the following word be used in every headline and/or byline: DISARRAY. The lemmings are obeying.
ABC and CBS were on 2 tvs away from each other ...it was a great example for me to tell the guy on the treadmill next to me how their message was EXACTLY THE SAME TO THE WORD on a chaotic transition... what a hoot!
The eneMedia hasn’t learned how much they’re not trusted and have been marginalized as background noise from the left. They don’t seem to know how much they are hated for the failure to do what a credible news source should.
For argument sake - if there was argument among colleagues would that be a bad thing? I’d rather strong willed, strong minded people DO argue for the best possible team. A string of ‘Yes Men’ or idiots like Joe Biden doesn’t best serve the needs of this country.
And before I fall off the soapbox, can someone please tell Fox to get rid of Meghan Kelly? I watched about 5-10 minutes of her last night and was quickly reminded why I never watch her. She’s a dullard. A moron. Her facial expression screams condescension and superiority. Find her a properly fitting dunce cap, put her in a cab, and ship her off to MSNBC where she can in fact be able to raise the aggregate IQ to room temperature.
Thank you, President Trump.
I have, in my lifetime, worked with some pretty classy businessmen, and one thing I noticed, they hold everything to their vest, they walk into a meeting and lay it all on the table, tell everyone to have a nice day and walk out...
The people sitting in the ‘board room’ are sitting there with open mouths and egg all over their faces...this is the way Trump operates...you will not know what this man is going to do from one minute to the next, but when he ‘lays it out on the table’ you will either feel really stupid or you are going to feel really great...
Don’t try to Trump the Trump, it won’t work!!!
I'm hoping he has all these snowflakes go crying to their psychiatrists.
More than seven months into office, President Obama still has a number of top posts to fill, which one expert said could be hurting the nation’s security.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/25/obama.vacancies/index.html?eref=rss_us
Now hiring: Obama still needs to fill top jobs
WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than seven months into office, President Obama still has a number of top posts to fill, which one expert said could be hurting the nation’s security.
Several of President Obama’s Cabinet secretary picks dropped out because of the nomination process.
An analysis by the White House Transition Project — a nonprofit organization tracking administrations — showed that 210 days into his administration, Obama had nominated candidates for 243 of the 385 jobs requiring Senate confirmation.
The Senate has confirmed 193 but still has a backlog of candidates needing to be examined.
Some of the top jobs open include assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation, and the directors of the Agency for International Development, Customs and Border Protection, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
David Lewis, a professor at Vanderbilt University, said the vacancies in key posts might be hurting the nation’s security.
“It means that a lot of the agencies of government that are driving important public policies that have consequences for the lives of millions of Americans don’t have leadership at this point,” he said.
Clay Jones, a former deputy director in the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in a 2008 report that no previous administration has had more than about 25 Cabinet and subcabinet personnel in place by April 1 of its first year.
In addition, Jones noted that no previous administration had more than about 240 Cabinet and subcabinet personnel confirmed by the August recess.
A top historian said the vacancy problem might be due to an expansion in the number of federal positions over the years. Video Watch more on vacant Obama administration jobs »
“The number of appointees has vastly expanded throughout the 20th century, so there are simply many jobs to fill. Too many, critics say,” said historian and CNN contributor Julian Zelizer. “Then the background investigation and vetting process has become extraordinarily thorough and involves multiple government bodies.”
Zelizer notes that even the most “imperial” of presidents can’t make this happen more quickly.
“The current process creates a huge lag between the time a president takes office and the time most positions are filled,” he added.
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CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger said that the Obama administration might be having a harder time filling jobs than other administrations because its “requirements are so tough.”
“First, the vetting process is so intrusive — some would say over-the-top — that lots of folks have said ‘No thanks’ rather than deal with it,” she said. “And second, the administration’s own rules, which say ‘No ex-lobbyists allowed,’ have kept lots of qualified people off of potential job lists.”
While positions still hang in the balance, one conservative think tank argues that Obama has still taken the time to appoint a variety of policy czars that do not require Senate approval.
“They have a Great Lakes czar, they have all these different czars, a car czar and numerous other czars, who are making very important critical decisions of the government, but they don’t have to go through Senate confirmation,” said Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation.
The prospect of a policy czar overriding them, observers note, might discourage good candidates for some of the executive Cabinet positions.
The administration, for its part, recognizes that confirmation jobs need to be filled.
“Do we have some more hiring to do? Sure. But are we able to make a lot of progress with the team that’s in place right now? Absolutely,” said deputy press secretary Bill Burton.
“So I think that, moving forward, the president feels good about his team and he’s going to continue to put together a strong team,” he added.
But others in the president’s party are worried.
“There’s every reason to be concerned,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “The president deserves to have his full complement of staff in the different agencies.”
One factor affecting the nomination process includes background problems — most notably seen with Cabinet secretaries who failed to pass muster.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota was nominated by Obama to become the health and human services secretary. But Daschle later pulled out after it was revealed that he failed to pay over $100,000 in taxes.
The president also nominated New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to become the commerce secretary — only to have him drop out because of an investigation into a company that once contributed to the Democrat.
And after making the pledge to appoint a Lincolnesque “team of rivals,” Obama nominated Sen. Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire, to the Commerce post. But the Republican senator later dropped out because of opposition to the president’s stimulus plan and issues involving the 2010 census.
One Cabinet nominee who did make the cut lashed out at the nomination process last month.
“The clearance and vetting process is a nightmare,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “It takes far longer than any of us would want to see. It is frustrating beyond words.”
Clinton also said that anyone who has gone through the process notes that it’s getting worse.
“Some very good people, you know, just didn’t want to be vetted,” she said. “You have to hire lawyers, you have to hire accountants. I mean, it is ridiculous.” E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend
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They would clear out the pharmacies of Thorazine if he started doing that.
It burns me when a name is mentioned and people start trashing that choice. As soon as I see/hear that, I look elsewhere for my information. If he put in Jesus Christ, the atheists would dis him. There is no choice he could make that isn't going to cause a loud noise from "millions" (who don't exist) that oppose him.
I just hate to finance psychiatrists, too many of whom, I’m thinking, are democrats. Perhaps I’m wrong about that, but Charles Krauthammer doesn’t prove me wrong. :>)
“And the first runner up for Miss, er. . . I mean Mr. Secretary of State is . . . “
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