Progressives ain’t gonna be happy….
Neither will some Democrats looking for jobs in a Biden admin….
But those who know Joe Biden?
Are not surprised with this….
People better get used to this….
It IS who Joe Biden is….
And just about every past President except Donald Trump….
Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting a handful of Republicans for potential Cabinet positions — despite doubts it will win him new support from the right and the risk it will enrage the left.
Reaching across the aisle to pick senior members of his administration could shore up Biden’s credentials as a unity candidate, a message he’s made a cornerstone of his campaign. Past presidents including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have all done the same. But that tradition died with President Donald Trump, and liberal Democrats are already warning that a Republican pick, even a moderate one, could sow distrust within the party before Biden even takes office….
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Nominating a Republican to the Cabinet would be the latest in a series of steps Biden has taken to extend an olive branch across the aisle. His campaign regularly holds calls with a group of officials who have endorsed him, including Republicans. After giving multiple GOP supporters prime speaking slots at his August convention, he tapped others for roles on his transition team, including Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Republican Sen. John McCain.
“This plays to Joe Biden’s comfort zone,” said one former Republican member of Congress who is close to the Biden transition. “If you’re Joe Biden, of course you’re going to want to expand your base a little bit, show some outreach to the other side.”
Tapping a GOP candidate to lead a federal agency could be an easy and early way to reward Republicans who endorsed him before the election and signal his intent to bridge the country’s partisan divide. But it could also alienate Democrats already worried whether a nominee who has long styled himself as a moderate will pursue progressive policies once in office….
image….wfla.com/Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right, and Former Vice President Joe Biden participate in a discussion on bridging political and partisan divides at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
I might be available…
(but reserve the right to sit silently through most of the SOTU)
He, he, he….
Wait by the phone……
You could do a Sam Alito, and mouth “Not true” and “Lies”.
Maybe Pres. Biden could appoint you Federal Animal Control Absolute Czar.
Wait by the phone….
Biden ad that aired during the World Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xufahbaq4&feature=emb_title
Pretty good stuff
So I watched it about five times, opened up my ballot, and filled in the oval, while I was still vulnerable.
I will pray not to regret it more than I expect to.
See that wasn’t so hard was it? 😉
Harder than you know. It is tough to throw away a pure 24 year voting history of never voting for a Democrat and identifying with a political party for 8 years before that, but one man drove me to do that. He alone changed it.
I was going to wait until the debate and for him to say something outrageous enough to give me the immediate impulse, but I saw the new ad on tv, and then sought it out on YouTube and figured I might as well take the step on as positive a note as possible.
I think Newsweek should now change their headline to 351.
https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-350-prominent-republicans-voting-joe-biden-1540611
You did the right thing CG.
There is such a thing as something called (small) “republican solidarity” in the face of fascists and authoriarians, so you’re in some very good, unimpeachably conservative company, CG.
The most notable example was when Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front came in second for the French presidential first round, behind Pres. Jacques Chirac (Gaullist) but ahead of everyone else. All of the radical, liberal, socialist and (I think) communist figures and movements rallied behind Chirac. They told their supporters not to stay home or throw away their vote, but to vote, organize, canvass and rally for (the quite-conservative) Chirac. There was also a huge similar wave of pro-Chirac efforts from French artists and performers, who certainly didn’t trend to the right, and even from relatively apolitical figures such as the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. French consulates around the world drew long lines of French citizens waiting to vote
Similar examples from the U.S. including very liberal Californians supporting the quite-conservative Republican Clair Burgener when Tom Metzger of the American Nazi Party somehow won the district’s Democratic nomination, and from many Louisiana Republicans for the corrupt Democrat Edwin Edwards for governor against David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan. In that election, bumper strips read “Vote for the Crook. It’s imporrant.” Four years later (when Edwards was up for re-election many of the same bumpers carried stickers that read “Vote against the Crook. It’s important.”
The most notable example from history, still argued among socialists and communists, is the Social-Democratic Party’s support for re-electing the classic Junker general, Paul von Hindenburg, for presidency of the Weimar Republic, when the alternative was Adolf Hitler. (Hindenburg, though necessary, proved inadequate, as he later appointed Hitler Chancellor.)
You done GOOD CG…..
You did your duty in helping America avoid more of the grip of a false God….
Yes indeed….
Biden campaign is sticking it….
Great ad! Sam Elliott is an American treasure. I like that it didn’t mention the current President’s name at all.