“Mad Dog” would be a good pick.
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I think he’ll struggle with the political side of the position, but, given the opportunity, he’d crush ISIS. I think it’s a great pick.
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Two of my favorites:
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Any word yet on what Trump is looking at for Kellyanne Conway?
It seems like she is already kind of functioning like a White House Press Secretary…and Lord knows she has proven that she knows how to deal with the ups and downs that come with being on “The Trump Train”; and she seems pretty calm and collected (mostly) when handling the Press…
Anyone know what position she is being considered for?
For keeping the wheels on this campaign? I’d say he should write to the Pope and push to have her canonized as “St. Kellyanne, patron Saint of mechanics.”
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I agree, Press Secretary would be a great position for her.
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They’re so great. And some of my favorite classic Duffel Blog articles come straight from those two quotes!
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Updated short list
Judging by most on the various lists President elect Trump seems to be doing what I thought he would do and that is that he will govern as a conservative. Once in office I will be waiting anxiously to see whom he appoints to the Supreme Court. But…I guarantee it will be a conservative.
And they blew up the filibuster for federal court appointments. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be prevalent.
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I don’t like this particular pick for one reason specifically - SOS is one position I feel is necessary to have real world experience in the field of foreign relations. Some of the other Cabinet positions, who cares?
But the position is too important to try and see if a trial lawyer or CEO can suddently learn to be in the most important diplomatic position in the world. There just is no time to learn and no chance doing something ruinous.
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While one may argue, at least in theory, that a business background is extremely useful for other Cabinet posts, where a business person’s acumen, managerial and organizational skills could be put to good use, there simply isn’t a way to rationalize choosing such a candidate for a diplomatic position such as a SoS.
But it seems that the overriding, if not the only criterion, for Trump’s choice of Tillerson was “being friends with Vladimir Putin”.
Tillerson was the recipient of the second-highest Russian decoration from Putin personally.
I’m pretty sure that, like everything else, there’s no such precedent in US history where a SoS received a medal from a declared adversary.
This is what seems odd to me…and while some of you may defend it…it is hard for me to understand.
Trump…(and who appears to be headed toward the Deputy SOS…John Bolton)…publicly are more critical of our own Intelligence Agencies than they are Putin. The WORST Putin gets is “I don’t know him…” and Bolton’s “It all may have been a “false Flag” operation to make it appear that the Russians hacked the U.S.”…while our Intelligence Agencies are made to look like incompetent, bumbling fools, straight out of “Get Smart”.
I don’t get it.
Not cool.
The President is going to be the President…but I hope Bolton doesn’t get back anywhere near the State Department. He’s proven himself over and over again as a “private” citizen to be a Partisan Hack.
Fire away.
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(…Then again…maybe Bolton would fit right in…).
Watching Gingrich explain Tillerson as choice makes sense in a way,!
My perception
These Alpha players are used to winning and if harnessed for advancing the US and conservative ideals forward, they would be welcome up to a point. Afterall, a tyrant on the right is still a tyrant.
This makes it a shame the everyman can’t depend on his news info to keep these strongmen from going too far and deciding the US is now their fiefdom. In fairness, trust the news and actually care enough about our government, thay are involved in it.
Anybody have any justification for the Tillerson (assumed) pick? I don’t get it.
One theory
That was hardly a defense of Tillerson and more of a “trust Trump knows what he’s doing” because he makes deals.
The Tillerson comments attempted to justify it in the sense that because his business operates globally he would be able to work with those governments. Not every CEO of a global business is qualified for SOS.
Is that it? I’m really struggling with understanding the pick, and it is for one of the (if the the most) important cabinet positions. Hopefully he’s just throwing out rumors.
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This is along the same lines that I thought about Trump as a presidential candidate. The guy has working relationships with key leaders through out the world.
He is not a politician. He’s someone whose success is outcome dependent.
Why does the citizenry of the US continue to buck against the appointment of people whose success is outcome dependent when the last eight years of some of the most milquetoast bureaucrats the world has ever known (John Kerry, Hillary Clinton) is barely in our rear view?
Yeah. Forget Tillerson. Leave him to the business of producing billions of dollars of profit. Lets keep digging until we can find someone who has been strangle into submission with red tape to the point that they will willingly hand over millions of jobs and billions of dollars in “aide” to the next banana republic that steps up to say that they don’t like us.
When are the people of the US going to stop requesting people that treat our country like the worlds biggest soup kitchen that is serving up the goose that lays golden eggs?
I can offer a possible reason. Given Trump is squaring up to the Chinese (which appear to be his bigger bugaboo) perhaps he is banking on a detente of relations with the Ruskies in order to not have to face diplomatic pressure from both. Tillerson has solid relations with the Russians, so if Trump is planning a heavily pacific focused foreign policy, it would seem plausible that he will take someone with ties to the Russians.
Or, perhaps it is part of a plan to change US energy policy significantly. It could aslo be that he just likes rich folks. At this point it would be anyone’s guess.