Transition Team/Cabinet Thread

[Lambsbread]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

[Mike67]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

[Mike67]

Glad that Trump didn't pick Cramer for Agriculture.

I am also

[America Needs R'hllor]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

Yeah... Sure... She totally said that. Not like her husband, father, son-in-law, grandson and many friends/donors are white males, right?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Maggie Haberman ‏@maggieNYT  24s25 seconds ago
Trump transition said to be eyeing Navy Admiral Michelle Howard to head the VA. Link tk

Seems like another decent choice.

Veterans' issues are another area I care a lot about, although I'm not as knowledgeable about them as I wish I were.

The number of women in his administration is still horrifying.

Yes, very much so.

[Heisenberg]

Official: Otter being vetted for Agriculture. The article also states that Heitkamp, Sonny Perdue, Chuck Conner, and Sid Miller are other candidates still believed to be in the running for the job.

[Mike67]

Official: Otter being vetted for Agriculture. The article also states that Heitkamp, Sonny Perdue, Chuck Conner, and Sid Miller are other candidates still believed to be in the running for the job.

Sonny Purdue would be a good pick

[KingSweden]

I imagine Otter would want the pick so that Little can become Gov and block out the Labrador faction

[Classic Conservative]

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

[Mike67]

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

I'd love to see the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem I hope it happens.

[The_Doctor]

I thought Heidi Heitkamp was going to be at Agriculture for the sake of picking off a token Democrat and putting the Senate seat in GOP hands? Guess not.

[Heisenberg]

I imagine Otter would want the pick so that Little can become Gov and block out the Labrador faction

I don't care for Labrador but he seems like the type who would still primary an incumbent. There were rumors he wanted to primary Risch and then Crapo in 2014 and 2016, respectively IIRC.

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

This counters James Mattis on that issue. Also proves that early reports of Huckabee getting that are false. I still expect Huckabee to get some ambassadorship. Any word on who gets the Ambassadorship to Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc?

[ApatheticAustrian]

nice kabuki theater....shouldn't harm manchin and heitkamp in their own states.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I imagine Otter would want the pick so that Little can become Gov and block out the Labrador faction

I haven't heard much to like about Otter but if he opposes the Labrador faction then I guess he's a relative FF in Idaho politics.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

Good God, see this is the only area of Trump's foreign policy that actually has me uneasy. Netanyahu is the most dangerous leader on the world stage unless you count Daesh as a legitimate "state."

[Mike67]

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

Good God, see this is the only area of Trump's foreign policy that actually has me uneasy. Netanyahu is the most dangerous leader on the world stage unless you count Daesh as a legitimate "state."

It's going to be nice to be friends with Israel again unlike the last eight years.

[SATW]

Solid back by Trump for Ambassador to Israel .

[justfollowingtheelections]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

What?

[Lambsbread]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

[ApatheticAustrian]

i think the troll factory/fake news reality shows itself in a most transparent way.

[justfollowingtheelections]

I thought Heidi Heitkamp was going to be at Agriculture for the sake of picking off a token Democrat and putting the Senate seat in GOP hands? Guess not.

She's not stupid

[Gass3268]

Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

Haha, what?

[justfollowingtheelections]

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

Terrible.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I imagine Otter would want the pick so that Little can become Gov and block out the Labrador faction

I don't care for Labrador but he seems like the type who would still primary an incumbent. There were rumors he wanted to primary Risch and then Crapo in 2014 and 2016, respectively IIRC.

David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

This counters James Mattis on that issue. Also proves that early reports of Huckabee getting that are false. I still expect Huckabee to get some ambassadorship. Any word on who gets the Ambassadorship to Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Russia, etc?

It won't be any of those - probably someplace backwards where he can get some slaves.