President-Elect Joe Biden makes his picks official…..
These are national security, climate and foreign policy people…
And Joe Biden WILl listen to his ‘experts’…
The spotlight and ‘juice’ will switch from the Trump admin already….
And I don’t care what his job title is….
John. Kerry comes across as the ‘old hand’ ….
America is moving back to establish itself as a world power and re-engaged….
And these people are proud of their roots and diversity….
And this is about ‘We the People’….
Not just the ‘base’….
For more than two weeks after his victory was clear, Mr. Biden’s transition team was hindered by the Trump administration’s refusal to cooperate, and the refusal of the head of the General Services Administration to ascertain the results of the election and give the transition team access to government resources. The G.S.A. finally issued the ascertainment on Monday, clearing the way for Mr. Biden to start officially announcing his nominations.
In his speech on Tuesday, Mr. Biden urged senators to confirm his nominees on a bipartisan basis, an implicit acknowledgment of the obstacles that the Senate — led by Republicans at least until Georgia’s runoff elections in January — could pose to his administration…..
image….Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Republican empty suit Marco Rubio,criticized Bidens national security team and then said,
“I support American greatness”
That MAGA hat is still firmly implanted on his head!
Here’s the Rubio BS…..
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday sharply criticized a number of President-elect Joe Biden’s intended Cabinet nominees, calling them “caretakers of America’s decline” and suggesting he may vote against their confirmation next year.
In a tweet Tuesday morning, the Florida Republican suggested that the president-elect’s nominees “went to Ivy League schools, have strong resumes, attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline.”
“I support American greatness,” the senator continued, adding: “And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China.”
More…
Rubio don’t make the picks Biden does….
Gonna be Collins, Romney and Murkowski who makes or breaks thins if GOPer’s keep Ga.
If not?
Whew!
In this remarks today, Blinken used the term “the Last Best Hope of Earth” to refer to America.
I have never heard a Democrat say that before. Maybe Rubio ought to extend the benefit of the doubt.
CG, I keep saying it, you are going to come to the Dark Side…your party has forever lost it’s way…
Speaking of “Ivy League schools…“
Trump want to Penn
Mike Pompeo went to Harvard
Bill Barr went to Columbia
Steve Mnuchin went to Yale
Wilbur Ross went to Yale
Alex Azar went to Dartmouth and Yale
Elaine Chao went to Dartmouth and Harvard
Don’t remember Marco being upset about any of this.
Of course this is nothing more than Rubio trying to get in good with the MAGA crowd.Nothing these types like better than a little hating on a good education.
Most are probably blithely unaware of where their sainted leader went to school.
Rubio tried to emulate Trump in the 2016 primary debates by giving his opponents demeaning nicknames.
Looks like he still doesn’t get it Trump does this and the GOP is in love. Anyone else does it and they are ridiculed as out of touch career politicians.
Rubio should know by now a cult can only have one leader.
And that’s what the GOP is now. A cult
Trump can successfully give his opponents demeaning nicknames because Trump is authentically an asshole – and he doesn’t pretend not to be. Republicans admire that Trump will always say what he wants to say because they are tired of having to be politically correct. They admire that a person can be openly racist, sexist, xenophobic, and transphobic. Republicans admire that Trump doesn’t pretend to care about babies in cages separated from their parents or about global warming.
Other Republicans are less openly authentic as Trump. And that explains part of his popularity.
Indeed Z….
It’s sad truth you give….
Difference comments for different party people?
Really Senator?
Ted Cruz went to Princeton & Harvard Law.
Ron DeSantis attended Yale & Harvard Law.
Barack Obama attended Columbia & Harvard Law.
The University of Florida (not to mention the five or six small schools Rubio went to first) must really suck.
¿ Unable to graduate full, complete. 100% Noles but only Seminoles like their present governor ?
Marco graduated a Gator but years later would fall victim to a Crock.
Of the three people nominated to be Secretary of something, Alejandro Mayorkas never attended an Ivy League school.
Is Rubio going to oppose his fellow son of Cuban refugees? (technically more accurate in the case of Mayorkas’s parents, and he was also a refugee himself)
Yes CG…..
Biden has some people are Ivy League…
But some ain’t gonna be…
This sort of goes both ways because during the last days of the campaign, Biden frequently brought up how he would be the first President in a very long time to not have attended an Ivy League School and that was time for someone from a state school, etc.
Previously, he had overstated how long it had been since the last non-Ivy League President, whom was Ronald Reagan, the Pride of Eureka College.
And just before Reagan, (being technical, since no one including the NCAA, has ever been able to classify the five military academies) Jimmy Carter (Georgia Tech & Annapolis).
And leave us not forget Southwest Texas State Teachers’ College.
Let alone no college at all, something that Harry S Truman bitterly regretted for his whole, long life.
This is the best that Wikipedia’s article on the U of Fla (crowd-sourced, i.e. mainly written by those already associated the subject) can say;
[It’s hardly a surprise that — for any given state X — the X State University graduated many of X state’s current and former politicians.]
Florida alumni live in every state and more than 100 foreign countries.[213] Florida alumni include two Nobel Prize winners, nine NASA astronauts, ten U.S. Senators, forty-two U.S. Representatives, eight U.S. ambassadors, eleven state governors, eleven state Supreme Court justices, and over fifty federal court judges. Florida graduates have served as the executive leaders of such diverse institutions as the U.S. Marine Corps and the National Organization for Women.
Notable University of Florida alumni include:
Bob Graham
Beverly Perdue
Joe Scarborough
Emmitt Smith
Faye Dunaway
Marshall Nirenberg
Stephen Stills
Carol Browner
Kevin Ford
Marco Rubio
Erin Andrews
and Tim Tebow
I thought Morning Joe went to Alabama where he was Student President..
Wikipedia says Joe Scarborough
“… earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Alabama in 1985, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law in 1990.[4] During this time he wrote music and produced CDs with his band, Dixon Mills, including the album Calling on Robert E. Lee,[5] and he also coached football and taught high school. ”
Good get DSD,…
I know i’m repeating myself but Kerry SHOULD be a resource for these people who are NOT from the State Dept but come from the insular National Security side of the White House..
Biden went with his picks but there IS a international personal side to this stuff and Biden and Kerry ARE the old hands on the top level.,,, The others are not….
We’ll see how it goes…
Before we get too snobbish (or anti-snobbish about this), let me admit that my highest degrees (AA & AS) are from the Community College of Rhode Island, having twice flunked out of UC Berkeley, event though my father taught at Brown for three decades, and one of my brothers went to Harvard & UNC. I did receive an honors-status acceptance from Penn, but (having failed to get beyond Yale’s waiting list), I chose Berkeley.
I’m probably the only person among those who contribute or are (bar Truman) discussed here who does not have at least some kind of Bachelor’s degree.
We have talked about Rush Limbaugh and former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Of course, you have nothing to be sorry for… I mean besides being a socialist, but that ok’s in America too..
Happy Thanksgiving
Bit early but Happy Thanksgiving back at ya both.,,.
It’s my favorite holiday
I have a BA and a graduate cert in HR Mgmt and went half way thru for a Masters in Pub Admin….
I notice that Trumps attorney ,Jenna Ellis, often refers to herself in print as “Dr”Jenna Ellis.
All law school graduates receive a “Juris Doctor” degree.It is a professional degree I never hear of any lawyer referring to themselves as a “Dr.”
A law degree is more difficult to obtain than a Masters degree but not near as difficult to obtain than a PhD ,nor certain other professional degrees .i.e. MD.
However ,if any of you feel the need to refer to me as “Doc Jack?????
He, he, he….
Lotta people with initials behind their name are alright with just signing their actual name…
No More…..
The Chairman of our Paralegal Studies department at CCRI called himself, and was called by others, “Dr —”, although his only doctorate (in a faculty that included several genuine Ph.D’s) was a J.D.
I took his Property class which was, at least as far as Rhode Island’s centuries-old law was concerned, very thorough, while he sometimes discussed the economic/financial/managerial side of property ownership, — which made me believe that most of his practice must have been in real estate.
I have never referred to myself as a “Dr.,”nor do I know any practicing attorney who does.
Since he was teaching at a college maybe he was trying to keep company with the PhDs?
When I was a freshman in law school and took Ptoperty ,on advice of a senior I purchased a short book called The Law of Real Property ,read it several times and made a “B” in the course.
Don’t worry Dave. You don’t need a degree to prove to us you are both smart and/or knowledgeable. Just as we know people who have (or at least claim to have) a college degree who are incapable of rigorous analytical reasoning or even struggle with the ability to follow a conversation. Throughout my career, I have often marveled at the brilliance of some people who failed in their educational endeavors.
I certainly failed to find much value in some college courses. I still remember taking a Marketing test in college which they asked for the 3 P’s of Marketing (I think it was Price, Product and Placement) and it reminded me how the college course was similar to what I might have learned in Kindergarten. No offense intended for Kindergarten. but I felt that class was a waste of time.
A Sporcle quiz for you, CG:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/sproutcm/word-hourglass-12
Have a good Thanksgiving, too.
DSD
BA in History and an MSW…Growing up…College is/was the Way…(Mando Reference)…
But seriously I don’t give a Flying Fuck what school any of these folks attended, as long as they have common sense and understand foreign relations they should be fine…
Proper bdog…..