Transition Team/Cabinet Thread

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Ironic Trump picked Betsy Voss to run the Education department considering she's for Common Core

On top of that, she runs charter schools that rely on vouchers, is heir to the Amway fortune, and her brother owns Blackwater

Jesus Christ

Forgot to mention she's a Creationist....think about it...a creationist is going to run the Education Department

Source on the creationist claim? Don't see it mentioned on any of the articles about this pick.

Either way, I'm opposed to a pro-common core rick santorum supporter as education secretary: http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/3/1/school-choice-but-much-more-making-sense-of-devos-family-phi.html

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Ironic Trump picked Betsy Voss to run the Education department considering she's for Common Core

On top of that, she runs charter schools that rely on vouchers, is heir to the Amway fortune, and her brother owns Blackwater

Jesus Christ

Forgot to mention she's a Creationist....think about it...a creationist is going to run the Education Department

It's about time.

Yep, just keep feeding people the lie that the earth is only 6,000 years old.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Ironic Trump picked Betsy Voss to run the Education department considering she's for Common Core

On top of that, she runs charter schools that rely on vouchers, is heir to the Amway fortune, and her brother owns Blackwater

Jesus Christ

Forgot to mention she's a Creationist....think about it...a creationist is going to run the Education Department

It's about time.

Yep, just keep feeding people the lie that the earth is only 6,000 years old.

I think this is unique to the mainland U.S. Even in Puerto Rico with its highly religious community, nobody believes such hogwash. The science is pretty straightforward on this. It's sad that creationists feel their worldview is so weak that they must deny science (read: reality) to give it some glimmer of strength. It's entirely fine to accept settled scientific facts, while being religious. It just boggles me.

Yeah, it's pretty sad that something like 40% of Americans are full-fledged YECers, when many arguments collapse without much effort.

 - God days are the same as human days - No. See Psalm 90 and 2 Peter 3.

- Adjectives define length of a day - Nope. First, Second etc. Don't define length, they simply define something starting. Morning and Evening simply define beginning and end of one of the six creation periods. Also see Hosea 6 for another set of days that could plausibly be longer than 24 hours.

- God created the world in a deceptive matter to "test" people - Hebrews 6 tells us god cannot lie.

- Radiometric dating is unreliable due to the great flood - You do not need radiometric dating to prove an old earth. Pressure Waves from the sun, recession speed of the moon combined with evidence of the moon being 25% closer to the earth in the past, star mass, star rotation, and star distance from the earth are all alternative methods to prove an old universe and therefore prove an old earth.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Romney is not exactly a foreign policy/diplomacy star - remember his disastrous trip abroad during the 2012 Olympics? Remember when Obama flogged him in the foreign policy debate? Also he called Russia our #1 geopolitical foe, which strongly conflicts with Trump's plan to have good relations with Russia.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I'm kind of surprised that Romney is even being considered for anything given that the guy almost certainly didn't vote for Trump.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Fox News: John Bolton met w/ @mike_pence in DC 2day to discuss the Sec of State position & will meet w/ @realDonaldTrump in NY Fri.afternoon
https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/804084619616337920

So much for the idea that he was out of the running.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Ken Thomas ‏@KThomasDC
Trump/Pence mtgs on Friday: Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.; FL AG Pam Bondi; Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND; Amb John Bolton; Ret. Adm. Jay Cohen.

Hmmmm

Guess she doesn't feel very good about her re-election chances.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Manu Raju ‏@mkraju  8m8 minutes ago Washington, DC
Manchin spoke with Trump last week, and is planning a meeting with him later this week. Another red-state Dem up for reelect Trump is wooing

Say it ain't so Joe.

McKinley will defeat him in two years if he stays, so he may as well get a new job now.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

LEAK: MITT FOR SOS

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

What I think is happening here (re: Heitkamp) is either:

a. She's serious about taking the position

or

b. Bannon and co. struck a deal with her that would entail Heitkamp being publicly considered for a cabinet position by Trump, which would give her bipartisan credibility in 2018, in exchange for her vote to confirm crucial cabinet positions.

Her vote's not needed for that.  The Republicans have all the votes they need. 

Depends on if they can keep their guys in line on some of the more controversial appointments. Sessions and Tillerson are certainly at risk of not being confirmed.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Trump has only appointed 2 women to actual cabinet positions, one of which has been in Washington forever. He needs to appoint women to both agriculture and sec. Vet Affairs if he wants to show the gender proper respect.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

> Calling Education "Not Important"

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

With a month to go, there are still a ton of open deputy/subordinate agency positions, plus nearly all the ambassador positions. Speed it up guys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_of_Donald_Trump

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

He should just pick Scott Brown. The guy was a great senator, but he's never going to win another term because MA is MA and nobody, not even "PROUDLY INDEPENDENT" NH votes for carpetbaggers. A cabinet post is the next best thing, perhaps better in some ways.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Jason Miller has backed out of being WH communications director: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-miller-trump-white-house_us_585f18d3e4b0de3a08f58df4

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Departure of Agriculture? Funny, I wasn't aware we were going to ban farming.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

McCain, Graham, and Paul is enough to stop Tillerson, provided Manchin doesn't betray his team.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

McCain, Graham, and Paul is enough to stop Tillerson, provided Manchin doesn't betray his team.

And also assuming every single Democrat votes No.

Hopefully Schumer and Durbin will be very clear that any democrat who votes for Tillerson is kissing their committee assignments goodbye.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

He'll announce it soon enough. He has plenty of other appointments to decide on as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_of_Donald_Trump#Confirmed_high-level_positions

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Sonny Perdue is a decent choice actually.