Get used to headlines like this: "Pete Buttigieg Isn’t a Transit Visionary. But Biden Might Not Need One" (New York Magazine).
I was wondering why it made any sense that Buttigieg should run the Department of Transportation, but I think questions like that will be answered with a brush off. Oh, what difference does it make?! Let go of your anxiety. Biden is here. And everything's going to be all right.
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The financial hole we've gotten ourselves into from our frantic COVID response will take a long time to correct. The deepest pit is coming up soon. All the Politicians who got rave review for hosting the nightly death count show are going to have to transition to filing potholes and scrounging for quarters.
Post WWI Calvin Coolidge got rave public reviews by cutting spending every day to reduce the huge post war debt. Someone who can do this and make it look novel would do well. Biden lacks the imagination.
The underestimated comfort of incompetence, corruption, subversion, diversity/adversity that we know, and a press and social platforms that will force it.
First openly gay Sec'y of Transportation. What other reason is needed?
Whatshisname can't be the first openly gay cabinet sec'y as Trump already scored that one. Welcome to the Potemkin Cabinet.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-transportation-secretary-pothole-problem-mayor
It’s not an important position, which is why Mitch’s wife occupies it.
ButtyBoy and Kamala are among the "young guns" to be showcased for 2024.
I guess that Joe physically makes it until 2024. His diminished cognitive state doesn't matter. It is a DNC administration.
14th in the line of succession.
ButtyBoy and Kamala are among the "young guns" to be showcased for 2024.
I guess that Joe physically makes it until 2024.
More likely Bootyjudge gets tapped to be Kamala's VP once Joe tearfully resigns due to health reasons.
I look forward to the 2022 elections. I predict a vote tally total greater than the US population, as having more fake ballots counted than the other party is now the only way to win.
Biden is a disaster, and everyone know he is. In the private sector, he'd never be allowed to run a small company; much less an entire country. Allowing him his position is treason, or ignorance. Neither are preferable to a country that is only great because honesty is expected, and incompetence is never rewarded.
What... me worry?
Blogger mikee said...
I look forward to the 2022 elections. I predict a vote tally total greater than the US population, as having more fake ballots counted than the other party is now the only way to win.
Good point but they had better start printing them now.
lifted:
When is the first openly-gay cabinet secretary not the first openly-gay cabinet secretary?
Answer: When he’s Republican Richard Grennell and needs to be shoved aside so Pete Buttigieg can enjoy the media spotlight.
Biden is Incompetent and corrupt. The Democrat sweet spot.
He's perfect. Just the guy to reduce statistics for rear-enders in the carpool lane. I feel safer already.
See, NYM Photo Caption: "Mayor Pete, take the wheel."
They left out "head in the clouds."
Buttigieg will do his best to screw (no not a pun) up the transport system in the US. Don't know how but he will. Bet on it.
To the above comment about him being Harris's VP in 6 months. Would not bet against that either.
So little time, so much to screw up.
The democrat party exists to enrich itself, lend favors to itself and its insiders, and gain power while they destroy the middle class.
Yeah, Pete as VP after Harris moves up.
BORING!
“It’s not an important position, which is why Mitch’s wife occupies it.”
Exactly.
I think Pete has probably dreamed of being a part of The Swamp™ his whole life. He's in for life now!
Biden might not be a competent President. But America might not need one.
“Might not”?!?!? Try “no effing way.”
Biden will not be stepping down as long as Dr. Jill can keep him relatively upright.
The Biden 2024 signs will be for Dr. Jill.
I am Laslo.
Our host in her cruel neutrality wanted normal and boring after years of unprecedented "chaos".
Well you'll be getting boring. You'll also receive at no extra charge - massive incompetence and utter failure.
These will be presented by those in all the right positions in media, if remarked upon at all, as normal and boring outcomes. Nothing to fret about. This is just the way the world works. The USA is on a natural downslope, due to unstoppable global forces beyond our control which you are in no position to comprehend. Everyone can relax in our managed decline and read this puff piece and photo shoot on Dr. Jill Bidens remarkable sense of style.
I think I've said this before here: if Biden were smart, he'd do as little as possible. The problem is 1) he's clearly not that smart and 2) I imagine that he'll be fairly biddable and threatenable by all sorts of powers foreign and domestic who are desperate to unmake America as it is and "build [it] back better" into an imagined progressive globalist paradise managed from some place like Beijing.
>>I was wondering why it made any sense that Buttigieg should run the Department of Transportation
Were you really wondering? Biden is checking the boxes. The D's are a coalition of identity groups, so every group must be appeased.
I expect him to appoint a transgender ambassador or cabinet member.
Exactly what cabinet position IS Buttigieg qualified for? What cabinet position does one assign the failed mayor of a midsized Midwestern city? What is his qualification for any Biden cabinet position other than a history of buggering his fellow citizens. Oh, wait. Never mind. BOHICA!
A big part of any public relations campaign is managing expectations. I see Biden has outsourced his PR department.
Biden only has 2 years to go before he loses complete control of Congress. Voters will not forget this election and will swamp Democrats in 2022. Especially, if Biden moves to the "Dark Side" of the Leftist's programs. Happened to Obama!
Joe can’t even maneuver his way off stage after coughing and yelling at us without dr Jill to guide him. You go Petey!
This is an admission against interest that the Deep State exists and will run things regardless of which party wins the White House.
Buttigieg is just there to check a box and erase Ric Grenell from the history books.
"Oh, what difference does it make?! Let go of your anxiety. Biden is here. And everything's going to be all right."
Apparently you don't know Biden's history or haven't seen him lately.
"Inga said...
“It’s not an important position, which is why Mitch’s wife occupies it.”
Exactly."
Chao has quite a bit of experience in transportation and in executive leadership of large organizations. Butty couldn't manage the pothole problem of South Bend.
To say the Secretary of Transportation is not an important position shows what a dumb fuck dullard you are.
Here's hoping the new Transportation Secretary immediately announces that all left lanes and all right lanes on all highways will now be recognized as being a spectrum of lane directions, any one of which can have traffic go either or both ways on it, simultaneously. Because why the hell not?
Elaine Chao, current Transportation Secretary, has an MBA from Harvard and previously served as head of the Peace Corp and Director of the United Way of America in addition to also serving as Labor Secretary for 8 years in the Bush administration.
Oh, and she's Mitch McConnel's wife.
What I find interesting with these announcements is they tend to mention that a woman "almost" got the position.
Here's a title for Mayor Pete's presidential campaign bio--
A Crowd in the Face.
Narr
Go forth and spread the word
His price for letting them steal iowa.
The Electoral Press has cast its vote.
Biden competence has always been questionable given his lackluster career. But he's just a temporary occupant of the Presidency like all occupants of this office.
“It’s not an important position, which is why Mitch’s wife occupies it.”
Russian Collusion Cultist Dead Ender Inga: "Exactly."
Elaine Chao
Degrees: Economics and a Harvard Business School Graduate
Notable experience:
- Vice president for syndications at Bank of America Capital Markets Group in San Francisco
- International Banker at Citicorp in New York for four years from 1979 to 1983.
- White House Fellowship in 1983 during the Reagan Administration
- Deputy Administrator of the Maritime Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation
- Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission.
- Deputy Secretary of Transportation
- Director of the Peace Corps (she expanded the Peace Corps' presence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia by establishing the first Peace Corps programs in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union)
- President and CEO of United Way of America. (She is credited with returning credibility and public trust to the organization after a financial mismanagement scandal involving former president William Aramony)
- Distinguished Fellow with The Heritage Foundation
- Board member for the Independent Women's Forum
- Labor Secretary for 8 years
- Board Member for the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Wells Fargo Bank, New York–Presbyterian Hospital, News Corp, Dole Food Company and Protective Life Corporation.
- In June 2011, she was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service
- Distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute until she was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Transportation on January 31, 2017.
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2017–present)
According to Inga, Chao has nothing on 1 term South Bend Mayor (who did not run for a second term in South Bend because he was not going to be reelected).
Thats our Inga!
The most pressing issue at the moment is how China is going to reimburse the US for the damage it has done to our economy.
The mechanism for repayment is in place: China owns $1.1 trillion in US Treasury bonds. Those bonds can be marked:
PAID. IN. FULL.
I just remember all the screaming about Betsy DeVos not having any educational experience.
Oddly, no one is making similar complaints about any of Biden's picks.
Or, maybe they realize that DeVos was one of the most successful Secretaries of Education that we've ever had, and that it's good to look in different directions.
*peruses recent headlines about DeVos*
Ummm...no, that's not it.
we are probably just a few minutes away from Inga telling us Chao isn't a "real woman", in the same way we have entire swaths of the left/dems/LLR-lefties claiming Ric Grenell was not the first gay cabinet official and that no Trump Adminstration female employee with children had to balance work and personal life.
Its interesting to watch the Sovietized-white washing of history in real time.
"Blogger RoseAnne said...
Elaine Chao, current Transportation Secretary, has an MBA from Harvard and previously served as head of the Peace Corp and Director of the United Way of America in addition to also serving as Labor Secretary for 8 years in the Bush administration."
"...appointed to several senior positions in the Department of Transportation under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, including Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission (1988–1989) and Deputy Secretary of Transportation (1989–1991)."
"Biden might not be a competent President. But America might not need one."
AYFKM? We just spent FOUR YEARS listening to "OMG!!! Most incompetent president ever!!!" And now, it doesn't matter? Fucking idiots.
Well of course the main thing is that Mayor Pete will never get elected to anything statewide in Indiana. So the Dems have to make a non-elected position available to him. Since he’s a clear political talent whom they want to develop.
I have a grudging respect for the Democrats; developing a good political “farm system.” Because the Trump Administration became the place that political careers were killed, not built.
And since the conversation rightly turns to the Elaine Chao comparison, I just wanted to note how well, and how admirably, the two most-GOPe members of the Trump Cabinet performed. Secretary Chao And Secretary DeVos. Who else in the Trump Administration fucked up LESS than Chao and DeVos? And survived the whole chaotic term?
"According to Inga, Chao has nothing on 1 term South Bend Mayor (who did not run for a second term in South Bend because he was not going to be reelected)."
Actually he was a two term mayor that was going to lose a third attempt. But your points are still well taken.
“To say the Secretary of Transportation is not an important position shows what a dumb fuck dullard you are.”
I didn’t say it, that would be your fellow conservative...
12/16/20, 11:55 AM
Blogger mccullough said...
It’s not an important position, which is why Mitch’s wife occupies it.
Chao has quite a bit of experience in transportation and in executive leadership of large organizations. [Buttigieg] couldn't manage the pothole problem of South Bend.
And that is literally true. Ignoring the snarky rendition of the guy's name, he was a failure at transportation management in a modest-sized city so he deserves to run the entire country's transportation network?
And since the conversation rightly turns to the Elaine Chao comparison, I just wanted to note how well, and how admirably, the two most-GOPe members of the Trump Cabinet performed. Secretary Chao And Secretary DeVos. Who else in the Trump Administration fucked up LESS than Chao and DeVos? And survived the whole chaotic term?
Chuck again comes up with a howler. Which Republican would have appointed DeVos but Trump? Chuck and Inga , once again, keeping us all laughing.
SensibleCitizen: "The most pressing issue at the moment is how China is going to reimburse the US for the damage it has done to our economy.
The mechanism for repayment is in place: China owns $1.1 trillion in US Treasury bonds. Those bonds can be marked:
PAID. IN. FULL."
I dont think you fully realize precisely how much celebrating is going on in Beijing, Moscow, Brussels and Tehran right now and what that portends.
America the piggybank/endless wars on the Europeans/Military Industrial complex behalf is BACK baby!
And this time they wont make any mistakes like actually writing things down that can be discovered later, like the handwritten notes of John Brennan from July of 2016 which proved the CIA and FBI/DOJ knew then the russia collusion smear was a hillary campaign op and these idiots in govt were convinced Putin knew and was feeding even more disinformation into the ploy.
Yep, in the coming years notes like that will never again "exist" for post hoc investigative purposes.
The Five Worst Legacies of the Chao Years — And How to Undo Them
Well things will be quieter. Instead of screeches from our "journolists" (those are the journalists who are the cool kids) about Orange Man Bad every day, we'll hear a new sound.
And what is that sound? The sound of several thousand mainstream journalists lips osculating the posteriors of various people in the Biden Administration. They wont talk--just kiss.
"Inga said...
I didn’t say it..."
Person A: Inga is a dumbfuck
Person B: Exactly
Both Person A and Person B think you are a dumbfuck.
Did that help?
Chao, who is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and who previously served as George W. Bush’s labor secretary, faced back-to-back-to-back-to-back scandals this summer with a series of pieces about her and her husband’s various public grafts.
Inga shovels the hivemind BS - the diversion from actual corruption all over the corrupt democrat party.
A ‘Bridge’ to China, and Her Family’s Business, in the Trump Cabinet. Elaine Chao has boosted the profile of her family’s shipping company, which benefits from industrial policies in China that are roiling the Trump administration.
After we find out so many in the highest levels of democratic-left positions of power are in bed with the Chi Coms - it's suddenly of interest to the corrupt liar left to point out the Mitch's wife is Chinese.
Chuck again comes up with a howler. Which Republican would have appointed DeVos but Trump? Chuck and Inga , once again, keeping us all laughing.
Michigan Republicans made her the state GOP Chairwoman for several repeated terms. We loved her.
You’re such a dumb old jackass.
Transportation makes up about 5.4% of GDP. So Butt-boy (sorry. I can't spell his last name) will control about 1/20th of the US economy.
Not all that important, right Inga?
Its always interesting when the 2 biggest russian collusion cultists and far left morons, who just so happened to also have been banned from Althouse blog, Inga and LLR-lefty Chuck, get together to hype their beloved democraticals and far left policies while pretending they arent.
In Inga's case its pretending to be against abortion while fighting tooth and nail for supporters of post-birth abortion and in LLR-lefty Chuck's case its basically devolved to his supporting every single democrat (and marxist in GA!) And every single democrat policy proposal...
....to "conserve conservatism"!
LOL
By the way, did you miss todays news on the NeverTrumpers/AlwaysDemocraticals?
Steve Schmidt announced for the 3,528th time in 5 years that he was "leaving the republican party"!!! Again!! (wink wink)
But this time he added he was joining the democratical party! Because of course.
This was after Schmidt sent the most amazing "I Love You" twitter note to marxist AOC!
Meanwhile, back at Ranch Bill "Why wont anyone pay to go on cruise with me anymore?" Kristol, Kristol too, like Schmidt understanding the grift is now OVER over, publicly announced he was starting a 3rd party...you know, where he would be welcomed.
That lasted, what? 8 hours or so?
And up in flames!
Interesting side note: 8 hours is about the shelf life of a LLR-lefty Chuck leftist daily meme!
Chao created special path for McConnell’s favored projects. A top Transportation official helped coordinate grant applications by McConnell’s political allies.
Biden might not be a competent President. But China doesn't want one.
It's not like Democrats expect expertise from those they call experts, so there is no news here.
Chao, who is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and who previously served as George W. Bush’s labor secretary, faced back-to-back-to-back-to-back scandals this summer with a series of pieces about her and her husband’s various public grafts.
Yesterday: Hunter Biden's millions from no-show jobs are no reflection on Joe.
Today: Elaine Chao's family businesses are "public grafts".
We're lucky Inga is here to show us the impact of an education system which functions primarily as a Democratic Party propaganda machine.
Only a stupid lib would think dunking on McConnell and his wife is dunking on Trump.
The people that run the country are counting on Biden being incompetent.
I feel bad for Inga.
She has already run out of her own words and thoughts (admittedly always a limited set) and has returned to spamming the thread with links that she hasnt read nor could ever hope to understand if she had.
This is typical behavior for Inga.
Frankly I am not surprised that LLR-lefty Chuck, known for his anger and rage issues when it comes to women, children and minorities, has not come to the defense of his fellow conspiracy cultist ally Inga.
Sorry Inga.
Chuck cant help you.
You'd better dial up another quick 20-25 links that you havent read to see ifyou can get things back on track.
I'm sorry to say I simply cannot wish you luck in that endeavor.
The people who run the country are counting on Biden being incompetent.
Chuck said...
"Chuck again comes up with a howler. Which Republican would have appointed DeVos but Trump? Chuck and Inga , once again, keeping us all laughing.
Michigan Republicans made her the state GOP Chairwoman for several repeated terms. We loved her.
You’re such a dumb old jackass."
As Secretary of Education, dimwit.
I feel worst for Drago.
Our resident dullard, who after being shown what a dumbfuck she is mocking Elaine Chao's executive and transportation experience and claiming the job "isn't very important", tried to claim she didn't say it, is back to her old frantic cut and paste lefty source blitzkrieg hoping something, anything sticks.
Well of course the main thing is that Mayor Pete will never get elected to anything statewide in Indiana. So the Dems have to make a non-elected position available to him. Since he’s a clear political talent whom they want to develop.
But is the DOT the place anyone goes to sharpen their blade? To my eyes, it looks like Biden is snuffing out Pete's career. Other than Elizabeth Dole and Andrew Card, the Secretary of Transportation has not traditionally been a post for those with lofty political aspirations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Transportation
Is Pete going to run for president on the back of his record of peddling streetcar boondoggles to midsized cities across America?
I suspect strongly that if the democratical/LLR-lefties kicked out a meme/narrative that there is no such person named Hunter Biden in existence, Inga would be the very first person to proclaim it an undeniable "truth" and her bestest blog buddy and co-leftist LLR-lefty Chuck would attempt to make "The Conservative Case For Why Hunter Biden Doesn't Exist And Never Did Exist".
Michael K,
This link is supplied just because it makes me extra happy to read b your nose in the shit; it’s Mitt Romney’s Washington Post Op-Ed saying that Betsy DeVos was a great choice for EdSec.
Mitt Romney: Trump has made a smart choice for education secretary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-trump-has-made-a-smart-choice-for-education-secretary/2017/01/06/627550e0-d421-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html
And it's very easy to make your own beer: You just mix your ingredients and stride briskly away. (You may, of course, vary this recipe to suit your own personal taste.) Your two main ingredients are (1) a can of beer ingredients that you get from Craig or an equivalent person and (2) yeast.
Yeast is a wonderful little plant or animal that, despite the fact that it has only one cell, has figured out how to convert sugar to alcohol. This is a far greater accomplishment than anything we can attribute to giant complex multicelled organisms such as, for example, the Secretary of Transportation.
Everybody settle in & get comfy, it is a gentle slope of a ride to Venezuela, what a views we will get as we descent, and get a chance for a good pit stop there.
The next portion will be a little rough, though, steep, fast and sloppy. I figure -- if Obama phase III Serene Police State indeed succeeds in getting re-installed -- 17 years to Pol Pot, and the ruin of individual freedoms across the whole world for a long time.
i may be too optimistic though.
Inga: "I feel worst for Drago."
Inga steps ever so gingerly away, for a mere moment mind you, from her security blanket of mass posting of links she doesnt read and cant understand to try it on her own....and thats all there is.
And all there ever was.
She'll be back to mass posting links again shortly...and possibly cursing Althouse while LLR-lefty Chuck will no doubt return to his creepy stalking emails to Althouse.
Is it any wonder Inga and Chuck are allies?
Peas in a pod baby. Peas in a pod.
“We need to set up a transportation landscape that doesn’t reward people at any level of government for ignoring those connections. If your community thinks it’s important to put housing a long drive away from grocery stores, banks, and jobs, they need to understand the consequences of that choice, and that no tools the [DOT] can give them can [fix it]. "
From Inga's link of Chao's legacy.
From that post and from what I know from work experience about some of DeVos efforts at Education, these are policy difference. Fair to debate the merits but not proof of incompetence.
Transportation plans should include both the needs of the urban dweller and the ranchers of the west.
"what views we will get as we descend"
LLR-lefty Chuck seems to spend an inordinate amount of time speaking of "eating s***" and threatening women and children.
There were plenty of other reasons I am quite sure for the blog moderators to have banned Chuck, and for that matter Inga as well, but I am pretty sure LLR-lefty Chucks behavior could keep a large team of therapists fully engaged for quite a long period of time.
Maybe it was Chuck's large psychological fee obligations that made him such a wildly passionate advocate for obamacare and the single payer socialist medical model.
Maybe Chuck was attempting to distribute that burden across a larger set of his fellow citizens, which includes republicans/conservatives/anyone who pushes back against dems, whom Chuck despises.
Biden might not be a competent President.
What is the Vegas over/under on this?
>>Biden might not be a competent President. But America might not need one.
Ann is channeling Hruska.... Aren't incompetent Americans entitled to a little representation?
It would seem 70+ million of us agree with her. :)
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77dincompetent.phtml
I suspect strongly that if the democratical/LLR-lefties kicked out a meme/narrative that there is no such person named Hunter Biden in existence, Inga would be the very first person to proclaim it an undeniable "truth" and her bestest blog buddy and co-leftist LLR-lefty Chuck would attempt to make "The Conservative Case For Why Hunter Biden Doesn't Exist And Never Did Exist".
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I saw the databank showing China graduating more engineers each and every year than all the engineers working in the US, ave 800,000 year after year for years now.
No panic on that data, no, none at all.
And you saw their historic success on the moon recently.
That is to say, we need these next 4 years of Trump. It may not be near enough, but that just proves we'll need him bad.
G*dspeed, America
Might not be competent? LOL, good one.
I’m guessing Joe will be good to go as long as the complexity of being President doesn’t exceed the effort required to have a daily bowel movement . Beyond that, he’ll be in trouble.
Chao’s (and Mitch’s) wealth comes from the Foremost Group, which Chao’s father and sister run.
The company builds ships in China, the ship crews are mostly Chinese nationals, and 75% of shipments carried are to and from China.
None of the ships fly under the United States flag.
The operating subsidiaries are based in the Marshall Islands. The subsidiaries donated $40 million to Harvard business school from 2014-2016.
The New York headquartered Forest Group employs 20 people. It took a $1 million PPP grant from the federal government this year.
So much for America First.
Promise low, deliver lower. You fucked, you trusted us.
The all new 2021 Citroen Edsel is back and this time it's personal.
Biden’s core competence is that he’s not Trump. That seems to be enough.
I wonder if it would be possible to establish an Over/Under Pool on how much Chuck spends per month on psychological counseling?
We would have to devise a way to figure out what the real number is of course.
My best suggestion would be to lie to an IRS/FBI person in the Buden admin and tell them LLR-lefty Chuck is a conservative who is thinking about supporting Trump in 2024.
I suspect we would know pretty much everything about our FakeCon Chuck within about 2 weeks.
Mitch married Chao in 1993.
Mitch’s voting record on China since then has been abysmal.
In 2008, Chao’s father gave Chao and Mitch a gift of $25 million.
Apparently the Chi-coms are going with former Michigan governor Two-Penny Jenny as their new "Energy Secretary".
mccullough: "In 2008, Chao’s father gave Chao and Mitch a gift of $25 million."
I assume that is in addition to the large inheritance they received?
"Mitch married Chao in 1993.
Mitch’s voting record on China since then has been abysmal.
In 2008, Chao’s father gave Chao and Mitch a gift of $25 million.
12/16/20, 1:57 PM"
I am not sure what your point is.
It would appear that you are saying a woman's competence should be judged on the actions of her husband.
Or, you may have just changed the subject and are no longer talking about Elaine Chao.
Biden may prove to be a blessing in disguise. One of the things I most appreciated about Obama was that he'd never run anything before, and therefore didn't have a clue how to actually get things done. He would just blame Republicans for stopping him doing things. Biden is even worse in that regard. Nothing will be accomplished. It will be fantastic.
I'll take an incompetent Democrat for President over a competent one every time. God knows what a competent one could get up to.
You’re going to be eating shit for a long time.
Are you ever going to grow up, Chuck?
Laslo Spatula said...
The Biden 2024 signs will be for Dr. Jill.
I am Laslo.
12/16/20, 12:30 PM
Do you mean "Doctor of Education Jill", that Dr. Jill?
I am not sure what your point is.
It would appear that you are saying a woman's competence should be judged on the actions of her husband.
Or, you may have just changed the subject and are no longer talking about Elaine Chao.
Or, you could not let your feminist knee-jerk, and try to think here. I'll help: McConnell is telling senators not to back Trump anymore. McConnell is married to Elaine Chao, who's family is from China. Her father gave them $25 million. One could say that McConnell's sympathies may lie with a country that is a sworn enemy of America, because he's been made rich by them.
This isn't that hard.
And I did not mention, while China graduates nearly a million engineers a year, we are coaching our boyz in pronouns.
A Pox on the demeaning, "Serene Administrative Police State" of Barack Obama and his legions of school teachers and govt grifting unions.
Praying for our precious, lost boys. a few generations have suffered State-run punitive conditioning.
And, of course, praying for more great success by our duly-elected President Trump.
Question about Jennifer Granholm:
When Obama was putting together his cabinet, he pretty much put every sitting female Democratic governor except Jennifer Granholm. I got the impression at the time he was making sure they could not come back to primary him for his second term.
At the time I understood she was ineligible to serve as president due to being born in Canada. If she was ineligible to run for president, he didn't need to worry about her. Now that does not appears that she ineligible and I was wrong.
So what kind of governor was she? Was she offered something and turned it down then or just was never asked?
The point is that Chao’s family wealth is dependent on China.
Their US Company employs 20 people. Their operating subsidiaries are based in tax haven countries, their ships are built in China, and Chinese nationals crew the ships, which fly under the flags of Hong Kong and Liberia.
Did people not know this?
Homeopathy may not be medicine, but who says illness needs medicine?
Every choice seems clueless so far.
I think it's a question of where Buttigieg can do the least damage.
Rainbow-colored freeways will certainly brighten up the place.
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright, alright
Blogger RoseAnne said...
Question about Jennifer Granholm:
So what kind of governor was she? Was she offered something and turned it down then or just was never asked?
During her tenure, only one State in the entire country spent every year in recession.
And no, she was not, and is not, eligible to become President.
I look forward to Chuck racing to her defense.
Well my guess is that Biden is choosing Buttigieg because he wants to elevate him from the farm league. It gives him more of a national view and access to Washington money. There is an Indiana election for US Senator in 2022, but that is probably too soon. But there is also one in 2024, which would be plenty of time. Mr. Buttigieg could hang out in DC for 2 years, make connections, get a bit of a track record beyond Mayor of a college town, assemble a team, and find donors and be set to make a run in 2024. So far a fair amount of the choices that Biden is making, make it look like he is orienting his administration to be a center-left one. Now that the general election is over, he doesn't need the Democrat base anymore. Something tells me the base knows it, if you look at the anger about the Biden conference call.
Biden Transition Team: Mayor... Buttigieg. We believe that the purpose of a Cabinet post is to serve the party. You, however, seem to regard administration as some kind of dodge... or hustle. Your press conferences are the worst kind of popular tripe, your administrative skills are sloppy, your "achievements" are highly questionable, and your law enforcement employees are prone to gunning down unarmed black people! You are a poor politician, Mayor Buttigieg!
Buttigieg: I see. How about Transportation?
lol Kevin.
thank you.
Thought the whole idea of the administrative state was deferring to experts who are smarter and more knowledgeable than us without such specialized learnings and, plus, who were outside of politics. So . . .
Huh.
Nothing new, of course, but whether it's acceptable to say that - or really to say it's entirely perfect and fine and maybe even better than having an expert in charge - depends on who is going the appointing.
I think Biden has good political instincts. More power to him that he can hang on. Calling Dr Jill!
He just really didn't expect to be president, at this point in his life, so conducted his private profiteering as if no one would be the wiser.
LOL oops!
14th in the line of succession.
Which should put him in the Top 10, maybe top five, by summer.
"There is an Indiana election for US Senator in 2022"
Are you the on'y person who thinks Buttigieg can win a statewide election in Indiana? Even Buttigieg knows that's not possible.
At the risk of being 120th to say so, well how well did he run south bend?
His sole qualification is that he's gay, but not the kind of gay that makes suburban women too uncomfortable.
His sole qualification is that he's gay, but not the kind of gay that makes suburban women too uncomfortable.
Only second? He ran a mid-size Midwest city in a middling manner. He seems under qualified. And not nearly as bright or personable as the hype said. Bleh.
This is why I think the GOP Majority Senate should bring the filibuster for appointments back if Biden does successfully steal the election.
I don't believe a single Trump appointee has ever been confirmed because of a yes vote by 1+ Democrat Senators. And I believe teh vast majority of Trump nominees were opposed by 90%+ of Democrat Senators
As such, no Democrat President has any right to expect a Republican Senate to confirm his nominees.
Senator Harris voted No on 18 or Trump's 22 initial Cabinet picks. She only voted Yes on Chao (Transportation. Cocaine Mitch's wife), Haley at the UN, Mattis, and Shulkin at Veterans affairs (who was the only one to get 100 yes votes).
So, even not counting their fraud, the Biden Harris is not entitled to any deference in their picks.
Bring them in, question them, and then reject them on Party line votes. And, since there's too many squish "Republicans" who'd be happy to screw us, bring back the filibuster, so it only takes 41 Republican Senators to deep six a Dem nominee
Are you the on'y person who thinks Buttigieg can win a statewide election in Indiana?
I suppose he could aim for a House of Reps seat. I'm just trying to guess what he thinks his possible career path could look like. I doubt he feels a strong vocational calling to be Secretary of Transportation. Plus he had a surprising amount of appeal when he ran for President. I think a lot of the more well-off Lefties like Buttigieg because his demeanor was perceived to have a moderately stoic technocratic appeal. I guess he could always pull a Hillary and discover he really felt like he belonged in some more solidly blue state and relocate there and seek office. He could fit in in Delaware or Connecticut, maybe not Vermont, and I strongly doubt New Hampshire.
"What kind of governor was Jennifer Granholm?"
Hot. Very hot indeed for a governor.
Narr
Not much competition
Government administration and transportation policy qualifications of Secretaries of Transportation nominated by presidents in the last quarter-century:
Biden nominated a person who had two terms as mayor of 305th-largest city in the US.
Trump appointed someone with eight years of experience in the Cabinet (as Secretary of Labor) and five years' experience in the Department of Transportation (Deputy Administrator of the Maritime Administration, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, Deputy Secretary of Transportation).
Obama's second appointment was the two-term mayor and two-term city councilman of the 15th-largest city in America.
Obama's first appointment was someone who served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for six years.
George W. Bush’s second appointment was the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, who had before that job worked sixteen years in the Arizona Department of Transportation.
George W. Bush first appointed an incumbent Secretary of Commerce, who had previously been the chairman of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission, before that had been a member (including Chairman and Ranking Minority Member) of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for two decades, and before that been councilman and then mayor of what was then the US's 31st-largest city by population (and is now 10th).
Clinton’s second Secretary of Transportation was a Director of the Federal Highway Administration who had previously spent six years on the Arkansas State Highway Commission.
So, Biden's proposing someone less-qualified in matters of administration and transportation policy than either of Obama's two Secretaries of Transportation . . . and Obama's Secretaries of Transportation combined had qualifications inferior to any single Secretary of Transportation appointed by any other president in the last quarter-century.
It is to be hoped the position is indeed nothing but a sinecure, because that's certainly how Biden, and Obama before him, have been treating it.
I have asked for that full contact gym name many times.
Fully prepared to eat all that shit you are promising.
Well he can speak and read norwegian, right? And they have roads and airports just as they do here but with better free healthcare which is the point.
Based on the marvelous infrastructure that wasn’t developed under Chao, I don’t think it will take much to top her record.
The blacks hate, HATE booty-judge, so there's that-
As we know, black lives are the only lives that matter.
I worked summers in DOT DC in Ford and Carter years. Ford picked a pioneering African-American lawyer. Carter picked a congressman followed by the mayor of Portland. None had transportation expertise. The 2 Dems turned out to be sex offenders. Go figure.
Pete is just another Affirmative Action hire.
I looked at one of the links Inga provided, allegedly exposing a scandal involving Elaine Chao and special favors in Kentucky. I saw a project which provided $11 million to provide stimulus to a worthy project which provided economic development to an area. (“How about that $11 million BUILD grant?” McConnell asked the crowd rhetorically, according to the Owensboro Times. He then recalled his role in securing earlier grants to the city, adding, “It’s done a lot to transform Owensboro, and I was really happy to have played a role in that.”) What else is government about but people vying for money and deciding which projects are most worthwhile and get done? McConnell has served his state very well. Why else do politicians get elected?
In contrast in CA we have politicians funding billions for high speed rail projects that may never be built. see: Will ‘Amtrak Joe’ Biden bail out California’s troubled bullet train? Don’t bet on it
"President Trump was not an immediate enemy of the California project, but over the last two years, his administration became hostile. Earlier this year, the Federal Railroad Administration terminated a $929-million grant issued in 2010 by the Obama administration, saying the rail authority had failed to comply with a requirement that it make 'reasonable progress' in building a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
California’s high-speed rail endeavor, launched in 2008 when voters approved $9 billion in bonds, faces daunting challenges. It has a funding shortfall of $80 billion. It may run out of money even to complete a 171-mile starter system between Bakersfield and Merced by 2028, as Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed. The project still lags in acquiring needed land and has encountered problems building bridges.
Even under a friendly Biden White House, California would need to signal a stronger commitment to fund the project and resolve many thorny issues it has avoided, such as a plan to subsidize the service in violation of state law, experts say.
And ultimately, the state needs to come up with a credible plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, not just build an isolated starter system in the Central Valley, as it is now doing."
Which do you prefer: reasonable projects which benefit localities or boondoggle money pits which only benefit the politically connected?
Good luck Pete!
The secret to Pete Buttigieg's possible electoral success is to find an area where not too many voters are bothered by a person with this kind of affect.
I am fine with a Dem in the White house, even a moron like Joe.
But I'm not fine with the inevitable government overreach and big tax increases.
We work hard for our money and would like to keep a little bit of it.
Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes...
Biden doesn't need to be competent because he has such a diverse cabinet!
Rosalyn C Amen on CA high speed rail. I voted against Newsome and for a Republican I can't remember over this boondoggle.
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
Pulling trains?
By the way, if you're concerned about the identity politics involved:
Biden: White male.
Trump: Asian female.
Obama 2nd: Black male.
Obama 1st: White male.
Bush 2nd: White female.
Bush 1st: Asian male.
Clinton 2nd: Black male.
So not only were the selections of Obama and Biden far less qualified than the nominees of the other presidents of the last 25 years, they also included every white man nominated for the position in the last 25 years.
When you want unqualified white men running the Department of Transportation, think Obama/Biden.
Drago said...I wonder if it would be possible to establish an Over/Under Pool on how much Chuck spends per month on psychological counseling?
Two points Drago:
1. Psychological counseling is vasty overrated. The people it helps most are the highly functional ones who probably need it least. (What we used to call YAVIS clients).
2. I suspect counseling would not help Chuck at all, but it would torture his therapist.
"Biden will not be stepping down as long as Dr. Jill can keep him relatively upright."
Exactly...
DOCTOR Jill loves her some fame and celebrity.
She didn't start fucking married Joe all those years ago just to be put out to pasture in 9 months.
She wants her ROI.
Oh, I agree that McConnell is deeply connected to China through his wife. The only place he helped Trump was in getting judges appointed and he has not done as well with federal judges, not appeals courts. He wanted those appeals courts filled. Other than that, he lost the Senate seat in Alabama by blocking funding for Mo Brooks and supporting the scandalous appointment of the AG by the Governor he was investigating.
I wonder about his role in the Georgia fiasco? Kemp appointed an airhead married to a lot of money. Why and why did Kemp appoint her?
"The blacks hate, HATE booty-judge, so there's that-"
True.
Especially older and religious blacks.
Not fans of the gays.
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
Chocolate freeway?
Mitch wanted those federal judges because he thinks they will support Mitch’s agenda.
Kemp appointed Loeffler because he wants favors from her wealthy husband.
The bs TALKING POINTS have been disseminated to the hivemind.
Hunter Biden Sent 'Best Wishes From the Entire Biden Family' to Chinese Energy Firm, Asked for $10M
McConnell worked very hard to get McConnell judges confirmed. He sold this as being Trumpian, even to Trump.
It was said early on, McConnell will give Trump judges. No more. Turns out to be exactly correct.
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
Start with a tail-pipe.
Biden might not be a competent President. But America might not need one.
So competence doesn't matter, but we prefer an incompetent Democrat in the White House. Is that what's being said here?
Incompetent and corrupt. That's the modern democrat party.
*All negative info about any democrat is..... Russia Russia Russia!
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
How about:
"During Pete Buttigieg's tenure as TransSec it will no longer be an offense for a truck driver to spill his load."
"....men working signs will have the workers wearing assless chaps."
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
Bring back the Red Ball Express?
Just say no to rear enders?
The Rainbow Bridge isn't just for dead pets anymore?
One Way, Do Not Enter...
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
Trans/portation
Gay is an appropriated term from the early to mid-twentieth century intended to normalize and isolate trans/homosexuals from their peers in the transgender spectrum. It was around this time that they conflated sex and gender, and substituted the latter, gender: sex-correlated physical and mental (e.g. sexual orientation) attributes, for the former. Not coincidentally, this was timed with the feminist (i.e. female chauvinist) movement to normalize social progress, including: selective-child, cannibalized-child, pseudo-polygamy (e.g. sexual revolution), etc. under the Pro-Choice quasi-religion (e.g. "ethics") of the Progressive Church/Synagogue/Mosque/Temple/Chamber/Clinic/Office (PC).
Rosalyn C.: "I looked at one of the links Inga provided, allegedly exposing a scandal involving Elaine Chao and special favors in Kentucky."
Inga posts links to articles SOLELY on the basis of whether or not the Title seems to support whatever lunatic lefty/LLR-lefty narrative LlR-lefty Chuck and Inga are pushing that day.
She routinely links to articles that, upon inspection, actually refute the points she thinks she is making.
However, by the time you "hip" the nutbag to her hilarious "wrongness" she will already be a million miles down Conspiracy Highway.
The best Inga threads are the ones where she resurrects long ago debunked conspiracies as things that are still real.
Like, TOTALLY real...
Cases in point: Trump/russia collusion, everyone associated with Trump are russian spies including Trumphimself, the hoax dossier is completely verified, Kavanaugh is a rape gang leader, etc.
It's not going to work, you cannot make me feel better or even disinterested in this buffoon, Biden.
I still feel worst for Drago. All he has left now that Trump lost is to endlessly obsess over myself and Chuck. Do you need a hug?
n.n said...
"Can't think of any transportation-gay jokes..."
*************************************
How about, "I bet Pete B. knows quite a lot about dirt roads."
baddabish
Steven: "It is to be hoped the position is indeed nothing but a sinecure, because that's certainly how Biden, and Obama before him, have been treating it."
Well, put yourself in Team Biden's shoes. You've got to shove this little guy in somewhere, he's not qualified nor experienced to do anything high profile, but identity politics demand he be the first openly gay cabinet member (and dont worry about Grenell being the first openly gay cabinet member because "Democracy Dies In Darkness" media have already airbrushed him from the history books), so Transportation is the least problematic.
Major Pete has many many qualities for the job. He's 1) a DNC team player, 2) a wonks wonk, 3) a military veteran, 4) clean, 5) well spoken 6) willing to take hits without complaint, 7) happily married, 8) practicing Christian and 9) hetero looking and acting.
Inga and Drago need to share an Ice Cream Cone!
Who the hell cares that he's gay?* The question is, can he make the trains run on time?
* The Dems care because they're bigots.
“Inga and Drago need to share an Ice Cream Cone!”
Don’t think that would be a good idea. He’d probably insist on some oddball flavor called Trumptastic Orange, or some such nastiness.
Inga, sights in on dirty republican...Shoots Joe Biden in the back of his head.
I know what stupid looks like, sounds like...but when you get leftist making excuses for the Biden grifters, and at the exact same moment post a hand full of links filled with smears, and lies accusing others of that which she is busy justifying.
Its still a bit jarring to witness someone so unaware of what they are saying
btw, I did not call Inga a dumb fuck. Just to be clear.
BTW Nobody tells more gay jokes than gay guys do. I have a few in my family, and they’re vicious.
Inga is not handling the release of Brennan's hand written notes from July of 2016 very well.
It can be difficult when delusions are hopelessly shattered.
"Its still a bit jarring to witness someone so unaware of what they are saying"
The complete lack of self-awareness is THE calling card for Althouse Banned Duo of Inga and LLR-lefty Chuck.
Their Blog Brand, if you will.
Jenny Durkan, current mayor of Seatle, who's not running for reelection, would be perfect for Dept. of Homeland Security in a Biden administration. She's bent the knee to BLM and antifa, not to mention the socialists on the Seattle City council. She'll apply her expertise she's exhibited reigning the domestic terrorists of the CHAZ/SHOP/Homeless of Cal Anderson Park into cutting down to size the Chinese Communist Party. /sarc
“I know what stupid looks like, sounds like...but when you get leftist making excuses for the Biden grifters, and at the exact same moment post a hand full of links filled with smears, and lies accusing others of that which she is busy justifying.”
I know what is sounds like when a pig farmer defends a Trump appointee who used her position to enrich her Chinese family. Did I say pig shit dumb?
RE: Cocaine Mitch
Both McConnell and Schumer see themselves as more Important than a POTUS of their party. A lot of senators feel the same way, so it should be no surprise that they hated Trump (some more openly than others). There is a high level of jealousy among these egomaniacal creeps that we elect.
The Biden tag is “biden.” Buttigieg gets “Pete B....”
Sloppy nomenclature.
IMHO.
Russia Collusion Dead Ender Inga: "I know what is sounds like when a pig farmer defends a Trump appointee who used her position to enrich her Chinese family."
LOL
Meanwhile, we have this: more of Hunter's correspondence with his ChiCom handlers begging for an additional $10M in cash for him, the Biden family, and his business office-mates: Joe and DOCTOR Jill Biden!
The Bidens are literally everything the Inga's lied about with the Trumps.
Every. Single. Thing.
And we have the actual correspondence, the financial transactions, the exact dollars flowing back and forth, the videos of crack/coked up behavior, etc.
Its astonishing.
One would think the russkis shoving $150M+ directly into Bill and hillarys grubby little mitts leading to the dems lying about Trump would be impossible to beat.
But nope.
The Biden family actually beats them.
BTW,
Is this what this blog is going to be? A big what about-ism thing where we’re repeatedly told that biden gots it good, not like poor old DJT and other cons who are victims of evil libs?
Snowflakes gotta snowflake.
Charlie Brown Drago...whaa, whaaa, whaaa. So unfair, the football was so close, but snatched away.
cf said...
I saw the databank showing China graduating more engineers each and every year than all the engineers working in the US, ave 800,000 year after year for years now
Have you ever worked with a Chinese (or Indian) engineer? I have. Incompetent would be the most polite way to describe the majority of. They have a degree- awarded from wherever- that says- Engineering. They can design and build anything that was in their textbooks- exactly as described in the books. Want it twice as big? They'll screw up the calculations. Even worse if you want it smaller. I'm not a degreed operator- I work on operating and making the plants work. Every America degreed engineer I've worked with who'd worked with Indian or Chinese hires- who work cheaper- has said the same things. And the American engineers and workers who work in clean roms, well, those that have visited Chinese subsidiaries have discovered the Chinese don't really understand the concept.
I do my best to avoid foreign trained doctors of any kind. Don't care if they're white or black or Asian- or Hispanic as my current doctor- as long as they're trained here. Overseas training anywhere seems to be lacking something. The people can parrot- they cannot think.
Fox News obtained another email showing Hunter requesting keys for his new "office mates," his father, Joe Biden, Jill Biden and Jim Biden, to the general manager, Cecilia Browning, at the House of Sweden, a building in Washington, D.C., which contains multiple office suites, as well as a number of embassies. In the email, Hunter Biden also requested keys for Gongwen Dong, whom he describes as an "emissary" for Chairman Ye Jianming -- the chairman of CEFC Chinese Energy Co. "I would like the office sign to reflect the following," he continued, requesting "The Biden Foundation" and "Hudson West (CEFC US)."
There's your answer: she should be called "Dr. Jill Biden, Doctor of Love and Bribery, But Mostly Bribery".
Mayor Pete is the guy who added roundabouts on Michigan St. in South Bend, Indiana. So, there's that!
Americans do not need Biden, such a assumption it is surscribe whitin the literary work of it's entire culture although it seems to be hold it in short text like this.
r/v said: "Based on the marvelous infrastructure that wasn’t developed under Chao, I don’t think it will take much to top her record."
Your comment brings back memories of the Obama administration "Shovel Ready" jobs program, which was laughable from the get go. Even they got a chuckle out it.
South Bend or Bend South?
Not to mention that the cry baby-ism requires such a massive bad faith bending over backwards total BS. Somehow Althouse mutates that actual headline into her own generic headline that says it’s ok for biden to eat his own shit, as long as he follows it w/ a chaser of urine from a wombat.
See? See what I did there? A total BS representation of what someone else did/wrote. According to Althouse’s example that’s the way to go.
Yikes!
Another blank profile troll.
“Another blank profile troll.”
Karen’s just gotta Karen.
Doc Mike,
I don’t know if yur fussing re me, but if so, look at the date of the profile. That’s how you can tell if someone is a long timer who has decided to try another new name v a yute commenter who is new.
That’s right, I’m yur elder on this blog. So show some respect, sonny.
BTW Doc,
You should consider a name change.
“Frank Burns”?
That’d be a major fitting choice from yur era.
IMHO.
Joe is stuck. He can’t hire anyone who will outshine him intellectually.
I’ll let myself out
Regarding Brennan's hand written notes telling Obama about the Fake Russian- collusion against Trump that is the real Russian collusion on behalf of Clinton.
Obama could have come out and said "We don't like Trump, and there are a million ways we can fight him, but the Russian stuff isn't true." Obama never did. Shame on him.
He is a disgrace. Instead the left collectively decided to use Hillary's big lies and actual Russian disinformation to their advantage.
it's a shame Obama is such a self-serving American-Soul destructing asshole.
I'm pretty libertarian, so if Biden wants to et his own shit and have a wombat-piss chaser, who am I to judge?
Narr
DC makes people do some weird stuff . . .
Biden should have appointed somebody competent to run transportation like Elaine Chao.
"Controversies
An October 2018 Politico analysis found that Chao had more than 290 hours of appointments which were labelled as "private" during working hours on working days in the first 14 months of her tenure as Secretary of Transportation. The hours were equivalent to seven weeks of vacation. Former Department of Transportation officials described this as unusual. Current DoT officials stated that the "private" labeling existed to help ensure Chao's security by obscuring her actual activities.[68]
Potential conflicts of interest
As Secretary of Transportation, Chao appeared in at least a dozen interviews with her father, James, a shipping magnate with extensive business interests in China.[69] Ethics experts said the appearances raised ethical concerns, as public officials are prohibited from using their office to profit others or themselves.[69] Federal disclosures cited by The New York Times revealed a gift to Chao and her husband Mitch McConnell from Chao's businessman father James, valued at between US$5 million and $25 million.[70] The company her father founded (and which her sister, Angela, currently runs), The Foremost Group, has extensive ties to the Chinese state and Chinese elites.[70] It obtained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans from a bank owned by the Chinese state, has substantial interests tied to a major shipyard funded by and long-term contracts with a steel producer owned by the Chinese state. In what The Times described as "a rarity for foreigners", Angela and James Chao have served on the boards of a Chinese state-owned shipbuilder, and Angela has been on the board of the Bank of China, as well as the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (which was created by the government of China).[70]
From January 2018 to April 2019, 72% of the total tonnage shipped by Foremost was shipped to and from China. The Foremost Group has almost no footprint in the United States other than its headquarters in New York.[70] During the period when Chao appeared with her father at promotional events for the family company, the US Department of Transportation repeatedly sought to cut funding and loan guarantees for domestic American shipping companies, shipyards, and shipbuilders. These proposed budget cuts were rejected by Congress in a bipartisan fashion.[70] Chao's Department also sought for three years to prevent funding for a program that supports the viability of small domestic US shipyards, and a separate program that issues loan guarantees for the construction or reconstruction of ships with American registration.[70]
Chao pledged in 2017 to sell the stock she had earned while she was on the board of directors of Vulcan Materials, one of the largest suppliers of road-paving materials in the United States,[71][72] by April 2018.[71][73] After the Wall Street Journal and other major news outlets reported in late May 2019 that she was still holding the stock, worth $250,000 to $500,000, she sold it on June 3, 2019,[73][72] for a gain of $50,000 since April 2018.[73]
In June 2019, Politico reported that in 2017 Chao had designated her aide Todd Inman as a special liaison "to help with grant applications and other priorities" for Transportation Department projects in the state of Kentucky, the only state to have such a liaison. Inman was to act as an intermediary between the Department, local Kentucky officials, and Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who is Chao's husband. This resulted in grants of at least $78 million for projects in Mitch McConnell strongholds Boone County and Owensboro. Inman had worked on the 2008 and 2014 re-election campaigns of McConnell; McConnell and local officials brought up the grants when he announced in Owensboro in December 2018 that he was running for re-election in 2020. Inman later became Chao's chief of staff.[74]
Wiki
No worries. The Dept. of Transportation doesn't actually provide any transportation. Any more than the Dept. of Defense actually defends the United States. 50 years of mission creep will do that.
If we had competent citizens and competent voters, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Narr
A guy can dream
"If we had competent citizens and competent voters, we wouldn't be having this conversation."
We do. What we don't have is a judiciary that's willing to enforce the law, which means the Democrats were able to make it so the voters didn't matter
Why is Chuck still here? At least his last post was deleted. Thank you.
Why is Inga still here?
Why is Marcus still asking why certain commenters are still here? Why doesn’t Marcus take his concerns and email them to Althouse? I suspect if Althouse didn’t want us here our comments would be deleted as are the comments of the unspeakable Ms. M.
When identity is the criteria for gov't posts, it's good to manage expectations.
Inga said...
I know what is sounds like when a pig farmer defends a Trump appointee who used her position to enrich her Chinese family. Did I say pig shit dumb?
Sounds racist. She defends Anglo Joe but criticizes Chao's Chinese family. Of course Joe has a long history of family dealing, it's not just Hunter. Joe ensured his brother Frank got rich on government construction contracts despite having no experience in the industry. There's a continuous theme in that last fact.
I would have thought Dems would lay off this particular criticism for a while since it shows they only care about corruption when it enables them to attack non-leftists.
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