Biden is President - filling out the cabinet and beyond

Not in my memory.

 

how would you know?

 

Someone has to work while at work.

 

I trust Biden's judgment. I think a Sheldon Whitehouse or a Jay Inslee type would be great IMHO.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishan...n-a-global-ocean-renaissance/?sh=588383fb48a9

Someone will still have to walk up Wilbur Ross

 

Why Warren and Sanders (and other dem democrats will not be on the cabinet).

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/09/welcome-to-bidenworld

 

Damn. Why did I immediately start thinking of ways to funnel money to the family farms?

 

Cedric Richmond will be in the new administration. That was totally expected.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) will join Joe Biden’s administration in a senior role “overseeing public engagement,” leaving his seat in the House of Representatives just after being elected to his sixth term, Bloomberg reports.

 

An other great addition to the WH.

Jen O’Malley Dillon will join President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration as a deputy chief of staff, CNN reports.

 

More names for WH positions. I am shocked though, I don't see any names form the Biden family on that list!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/17/bid...nclude-loyalists-rising-democratic-stars.html

Veteran Biden advisor Mike Donilon was named senior advisor to the president. Donilon served as Biden’s chief strategist during the campaign.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, who managed Biden’s victorious campaign, will serve as White House deputy chief of staff.

Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond will be senior advisor to the president and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Richmond was a trusted advisor and highly visible Biden surrogate during the campaign. Insiders have described his role as similar to that of former White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, who often served as a sounding board for President Barack Obama.

Former Biden campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti will be senior counselor to the president, the Biden team announced. Ricchetti is a career political strategist whose ties to Biden go back decades. His work as a lobbyist in recent years raised eyebrows among progressives, who pressured Biden not to name Ricchetti White House chief of staff. Last week, Biden announced that longtime aide Ron Klain would serve as chief of staff.

Dana Remus, White House deputy counsel for ethics during the Obama administration, was named counsel to the president. Remus worked at the Obama Foundation and served as general counsel to the Biden campaign.


Biden’s director of intergovernmental affairs will be Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a former aide to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and the granddaughter of labor leader Cesar Chavez. Rodriguez served as traveling chief of staff to Harris during her failed presidential primary campaign in 2019, and before that worked as California state director in Harris’ Senate office.

 

Will we be saying this if Biden appoints Glenn Loury to Commerce, Jodi Ernst to Agriculture and Michael Steele to HUD?

I mention it because I came across this article this morning...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...some-feminists-torn/ar-BB1b5IvD?ocid=msedgntp

But this year, there’s a complicating factor: The biggest shift is in Republican women, with a record-breaking 17 new female GOP lawmakers set to be sworn in next year. Most of these women oppose feminist policies like abortion rights, paid family leave and equal pay. Some back QAnon conspiracies and racist policies.


For feminists, women winning office isn’t a victory on its own. Those women need to back policies that help other women, too.

“It is important to elect more women ― on face value, I agree with that. But I think the reason it’s important is because of women’s lived experiences,” said Amanda Litman, co-founder and executive director at Run For Something, a national nonprofit that recruits and supports young progressives of diverse backgrounds running for office. “If the women we’re electing are not going to govern with that lived experience ― where does the value add come from?” ​

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My point is that essentialing women and people of color might not be the best strategy forward for Democrats, since it seems that the "demography is destiny" assumption is bearing out just yet.

 

I'm assuming Richmond would be replaced by another Democrat in the house, right? Because he's pretty good at that job.

 

Yeah. His district a pretty much safe in NoLA.

 

“It is important to elect more women ― on face value, I agree with that. But I think the reason it’s important is because of women’s lived experiences,” said Amanda Litman, co-founder and executive director at Run For Something, a national nonprofit that recruits and supports young progressives of diverse backgrounds running for office. “If the women we’re electing are not going to govern with that lived experience ― where does the value add come from?”
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So "lived experience" is a synonym for "shares my beliefs"? I had not known that.

 

Of the names I saw mentioned as possible candidates, I think they are all democrats.

 

That would be an historic pick indeed. Would love it.

The Biden transition team is in the process of vetting Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) for Interior secretary, sources told The Hill.

If tapped by Biden, Haaland’s nomination would be historic, making her the first Native American Cabinet secretary, overseeing an agency with vast responsibility over tribal issues and public lands.

 

This seems well overdue, tbh...

 

Yang? I want to see him there somewhere

 

I still want Marianne Williamson to be appointed Secretary of Whimsy.

 

Is that a deliberate West Wing reference?

If so, this is the wrong thread for me to point out that the guy who played Toby has a pretty bad case of Covid.

 

No. Honest.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ers-become-biden-top-environmental-officials/

The Energy 202: Here are some of the contenders to become Biden's top environmental officials

I have met with Collin O'Mara and Santago Mustafa Ali. The latter is a wonk with tons of experience I did not know he had until I read the article. Same goes with Ms. O'Mara. Either would be a fine pick.

Nice to see Governor Inslee's name in the mix although I would be surprised if he was tapped, much less accepted. Sad (not surprised though) to see the Trump Administration rushing to sell off oil/drilling rights in Alaska. This IMHO will not be the last thing this administration does while on their way out the door that the Biden admin will have to reverse.

In the movie Jaws there is a not-so-famous quote that Quint had about his time on the USS Indianapolis when they delivered the bomb.

"...Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945."

Given the perspective of the last 4 years, I feel that this is quote is parallel to 1/20/2021. On some level, the current admin must know they are stoking dying embers and are willing to take those embers to burn the place down on their way out the door.