Present your cabinet before the convention
- Thread starter HighStickHarry
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I heard some speculation on who Trump might nominate.
Giuliani for Homeland Security
Christie for AG
Carson for HHS
Cruz for Supreme Court
Gen. Keane for Defense
Seems like John Bolton needs to be included somewhere. Maybe Sec. of State?
Giuliani for Homeland Security
Christie for AG
Carson for HHS
Cruz for Supreme Court
Gen. Keane for Defense
Seems like John Bolton needs to be included somewhere. Maybe Sec. of State?
Choices like those mentioned would go a long way towards showing that Trump would put good people in places of responsibility. Picking a VP with good political skills and comfortable with Congress would be a plus too. Gingrich fits those criteria.
everyone knows I have a man crush on Gingrich
wait some of those guys on your list are lawyers off with their heads. We need a truck driver on the Supreme Court.
wait some of those guys on your list are lawyers off with their heads. We need a truck driver on the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration should have a coherent energy policy and Boone Pickens should be consulted toward that end.
If he wants to talk to Boone I saw him standing at the corner of hwy 33 and 177 with a sign saying he would hedge for food.
I kid I kid!!!
I love it except for Bolton. He's been too cozy with the neocons for a long time. Time to purge the government of all neocons.
Christie as AG...I'll pass. He wants to enforce all federal drug laws and if he had his way we'd be living in a Orwellian 1984 type society.
Carson may be a fine doctor but I saw nothing in his campaign that made me think I'd want him managing a cabinet department.
One thing I will be happy about is I think there will be some new blood...tired of the same Republican retreads.
A better step would be abolishing the Dept. of Homeland Security. And Energy.
And Commerce and the EPA and the Education Dept.
Commerce could be folded into the Interior Dept. Education returned to the states and local districts. The EPA just needs to be shut down.
After doing some more cogitating, here's what I'd do if elected Grand Poobah with the 15 cabinet departments:
Agriculture - place under Interior Dept as a subdivision.
Commerce - goes to Interior as subdivision.
Defense - have VA and perhaps Homeland Security placed there as a subdivision.
Education - eliminate
Energy - eliminate
HHS - to Interior
Homeland Security - keep or place under Defense
HUD - to Interior
Interior - now has Agriculture, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Labor, Transportation
Justice - keep
Labor - to Interior
State - keep
Transportation - to Interior
Treasury - keep
VA - to Defense
That leaves:
Defense - VA, Homeland Security (unless violates posse comitatus)
Interior - Agriculture, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Labor, Transportation
Justice
State
Treasury
Energy and Education - eliminated
Now have 5 Secretaries and 8 Undersecretaries. Sell off unnecessary real estate and close all duplicate offices across the nation. Tell duplicate employees they will have to move to where they are needed or be RIFed or take early retirement. Eliminate duplicate or more programs which do the same.
Agriculture - place under Interior Dept as a subdivision.
Commerce - goes to Interior as subdivision.
Defense - have VA and perhaps Homeland Security placed there as a subdivision.
Education - eliminate
Energy - eliminate
HHS - to Interior
Homeland Security - keep or place under Defense
HUD - to Interior
Interior - now has Agriculture, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Labor, Transportation
Justice - keep
Labor - to Interior
State - keep
Transportation - to Interior
Treasury - keep
VA - to Defense
That leaves:
Defense - VA, Homeland Security (unless violates posse comitatus)
Interior - Agriculture, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Labor, Transportation
Justice
State
Treasury
Energy and Education - eliminated
Now have 5 Secretaries and 8 Undersecretaries. Sell off unnecessary real estate and close all duplicate offices across the nation. Tell duplicate employees they will have to move to where they are needed or be RIFed or take early retirement. Eliminate duplicate or more programs which do the same.
