http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics/steve-bannon-trump-chief-of-staff/index.html Well, this ought to help ease the left's concerns about a Trump presidency. *sarcasm In all seriousness, Bannon would be a great choice. He's a brilliant man.
Who is CNN kidding? They would think mother Teresa would be a bad choice if Trump picked her. Idiots.
Ahh Bannon is a super smart guy but chief of staff? And I know Trump trusts him but ah.. So to me the only other real choice is Priebus and he definitely is capable but the big question to me if I was Trump would be if he Priebus would be on board to convince Ryan his buddy to go along with some of Trumps legislative ideas. That's the crux for me. I honestly think Trump is going to push some adventurous fiscal ideas. Priebus is a charismatic guy, builds relationships well..knows everyone Reince Priebus will be his chief of staff as long as Trump knows he's his guy and not Ryan's
I agree. Reince Priebus or Kellyanne Conway would both be a better fit for the position of Chief of Staff.
He is. Of course, that depends on what your idea of radical is. Trump is set to do what every GOP President had done since 1980 (except George HW Bush). Push a huge tax cut, most of which will go to the wealthy and favor assest over work, with no plan to pay for it at all. At the same time, he's promising to preserve entitlements and grow the military, even as he slashes revenue. It's the same old borrow and spend. - - - Updated - - - I think Priebus would be a good choice as well. Not so much Kelly Ann Conway (Press Secretary for her). Running a right wing trash blog with a reputation for fake facts and yellow journalism is no credential for running the White House.
Very good analysis, that's exactly how I read it. The problem is: The private debt/GDP ratio is now at close to 300, vs 200 when GWB took office. That means the consumer is tapped out and won't be able to go on a tax cut fueled borrowing binge as they did in the GWB years. The possibility of the country being run by Breitbart and the Heritage foundation is terrifying, though. So much for people saying that Trump is a liberal in GOP clothing. He is far form that and first leaks of the transition team indicate that he is planning to take the country to the far right.
My fave is the rumor that Sarah Palin might be Secretary of the Interior. How many liberal heads would explode over that lol.
Well, the there really wasn't a tax cut borrowing binge after Bush's reckless cuts, because most middle class Americans got one check for $250 and that was it. The borrowing bing came from cheap credit, enabled by Greenspan's policies, and the deregulation of derivives which the GOP did in 1989, and the repeal of the Glass Steagal Act which set up the speculative boom in liar loans supported by the illusion of no risk. Fiscal responsibility has never stopped either Congress or any Republican President from going full out borrow and spend. It should be the one indespensible lesson on fiscal policy in our lifetimes. Instead the right wing noise machine insists that Reaganomics actually worked, and that trickle down happened. Of course, neither is true. But the Trumpsters will cheer loudly for another round of the very same policies that have deminished their standard of living. - - - Updated - - - It may not be a rumor. It's being carried in real media, not just the usual collection of right wing trash blogs where rumors like that are normally circulated.
Well, at least I didn't officially "vote" for him. And I don't think my one paltry vote could've made a difference either way. Especially since Clinton won my county. But I can't say I like the idea that save for a few, he's basically putting his cronies in the WH. Because he himself, obviously didn't bother to vet people for the job. But I think Newt Gingrich will do a great job at being Secretary of State. He's a wise, old veteran of US Politics and listening to him talk he's the kind of guy who'd be a loving grandfather figure. And I'd like to give Sarah Palin a shot at Interior Secretary. It's not like she has landscaping experience lol. But women are quite artistic. Okay, I'm just talking myself into it at this point.
This is a new low even for Trump. Bannon is a crackpot conspiracy theorist who thinks Americans are too stupid to check any facts.
he is 'anti-semitic', but hopefully he makes chief of staff because he is just pointing out how the rich use the media, banking, hollywood, etc.. to brainwash. this appointment is important, it will separate President Trump from bush. white nationalists have bad social policies, but their economic policies help the poor.
Trump campaigned against lobbyists. Now they’re on his transition team. President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists. –Al Drago / The New York Times President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists. Jeffrey Eisenach, a consultant who has worked for years on behalf of Verizon and other telecommunications clients, is the head of the team that is helping to pick staff members at the Federal Communications Commission. Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist whose clients include Devon Energy and Encana Oil and Gas, holds the “energy independence” portfolio. Michael Torrey, a lobbyist who runs a firm that has earned millions of dollars helping food industry players such as the American Beverage Association and the dairy giant Dean Foods, is helping set up the new team at the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Trump was swept to power in large part by white working-class voters who responded to his vow to restore the voices of forgotten people, ones drowned out by big business and Wall Street. But in his transition to power, some of the most prominent voices will be those of advisers who come from the same industries for which they are being asked to help set the regulatory groundwork. The president-elect’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, declined a request for comment, as did nearly a dozen corporate executives, consultants and lobbyists serving on his transition team, which was outlined in a list distributed widely in Washington on Thursday. A number of the people on that list are well-established experts with no clear interest in helping private-sector clients. But to critics of Mr. Trump — both Democrats and Republicans — the inclusion of advisers with industry ties is a first sign that he may not follow through on all of his promises. “This whole idea that he was an outsider and going to destroy the political establishment and drain the swamp were the lines of a con man, and guess what — he is being exposed as just that,” said Peter Wehner, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush before becoming a speechwriter for George W. Bush. “He is failing the first test, and he should be held accountable for it.” Transition teams help new presidents pick the new cabinet, as well as up to 4,000 political appointees who will take over top posts in agencies across the government. President Obama, after he was first elected, instituted rules that prohibited individuals who had served as registered lobbyists in the prior year from serving as transition advisers in the areas in which they represented private clients. They were also prohibited, after the administration took power, from lobbying in the parts of the government they helped set up. “They wanted to make sure that people were not putting their thumb on the scale, or even the perception of that,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, the director of a nonprofit group called the White House Transition Project, which has studied two decades of presidential transitions. Among the advisers assisting Mr. Trump who have no clear private-sector ties are Brian Johnson, a top lawyer for the House Financial Services Committee, who is helping to pick top staff members for the federal government’s many financial services agencies. Edwin Meese III, who served as attorney general under Mr. Reagan and is now associated with the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, is helping oversee management and budget issues, along with Kay Coles James, a Bush administration official who now runs an institute that trains future African-American leaders. Former Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, who served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and was once a special agent in the F.B.I., is overseeing issues related to national security, including the intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security. http://www.boston.com/news/politics...t-lobbyists-now-theyre-on-his-transition-team - - - Updated - - - I'll explode with laughter if she is appointed secretary of state.
