always considered it a "ha" without laughingi know it's skip bayless, but i've never understood what emotion he's supposed to be conveying there
always considered it a "ha" without laughingi know it's skip bayless, but i've never understood what emotion he's supposed to be conveying there
why would you leave the senate for some secretary position. i can understand leaving governor of a small state, but US senator is a big deal.
Bernie or Warren isn’t getting shyt. The Cindy McCains and the Kasichs on the transition team are making sure of that. Plus the Senate is evenly split so they letting a Repugnant Gov replace Sanders
No response to the point I made - people who are "alright" at their job being picked isn't something to be celebrated.Lisa Cook, Baradaran, and Menand are very good picks. Stop bullshytting trying to nitpick.
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The point of these leaks is to test the water.
And I bet all the names y’all posting in here will not be the people Biden pick
you clowns getting worked up for nothing... wait and see after Jan 20th because right now it’s all speculation and people leaking their own names out there to be considered.. Biden camp prob already had folk lined up of who they were going to tap from the moment he got the nomination.
I...don't think this means what you think it does. Matt Stoller and Zach Carter know very well who these people are. Obama administration officials are notorious for going through the revolving door. His former Press Secretary is now the head PR official at Amazon, getting into fights on Democratic Senators on twitter and going on TV lying about Amazon's abuses of power and workers. His former AG immediately went and joined Covington & Burlington where their clients were some of the biggest banking criminals that the Obama administration refused to prosecute. His former Treasury Secretary immediately went and became the President of a predatory lending company. One of his head Obamacare officials immediately became the CEO of one of the largest private health insurance trade groups. That the people on this list went directly from the Obama WH to some of the most powerful tech companies in the world - whose entire existence really hinges on governmental and regulatory malpractice- and are now being put in position to determine the regulatory direction of the Biden administration is...not an encouraging sign.These analysts didn't do their due diligence. Half of those listed in OMB previously worked in the Obama WH before Amazon, Lyft, etc.
Yeah I agree, it's not like Biden is the leader of a political party with various interests and coalitions to cater to or something. It's not like he'll need votes or cooperation from interest groups and activists to get his agenda done. So yeah, he should just tell everyone except Chris Dodd and Ron Klain to get lost. Who cares what the public has to say. Go with your gut, Joe.at Biden listening to what anyone else outside of his close group has to say about his cabinet. I'd tell everyone else to fukk off until I'm ready to roll.
Sounds like a plan.Yeah I agree, it's not like Biden is the leader of a political party with various interests and coalitions to cater to or something. It's not like he'll need votes or cooperation from interest groups and activists to get his agenda done. So yeah, he should just tell everyone except Chris Dodd and Ron Klain to get lost. Who cares what the public has to say. Go with your gut, Joe.
I don't think anyone was thinking that Biden would pick some leftist dream team. In fact, from the start of this thread, the mood from Progressive posters has been pretty suspicious and pessimistic. I don't know why Biden following the shytty path that most of us thought he would follow means we should just shut up and eat gruel with a smile. If he names good people, we will respond in kind, like when he named Gensler as advisor on financial policy. Having principles means you don't drop them just because you lose.Sounds like a plan.
Like I said above, this cabinet will be mostly center left with a few from the further reaches of either side of the political spectrum. Thinking this cabinet is going to make progressives happy is fool's gold and you should stop hoping for something that never going to happen.