13417152, I totally disagree. Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Dec-17-20 12:58 PM
Biden has taken an office that no one gives seems to give a sh*t about and has put a party rock star in the department and now I've heard more talk about high speed rails and the Department of Transportation than I have heard in years. I mean can anyone name a former DoT Secretary besides Mitch McConnell's wife?
And as a mayor of a city, even a small city, he certainly has experience managing a department of transportation.
In fact, his department of transportation is award-winning.
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/SouthBend.pdf
Also former DoT Secretaries have been former mayors or congressmen so this is in line with that.
What Trump did was put people with no experience or aptitude in high-level Cabinet positions based solely on loyalty and donorship.
Thats no where near similar to putting smart people, who have some experience in who can work with experienced people.
>I know we're coming off the Trump admin where experience and >competence were frowned upon. > >It seemed like Biden was going in the other direction. Putting >people in places where it made sense. People with some >experience related to the cabinet post. > >And I was hoping there wouldn't be the strictly political give >away cabinet positions. But I guess inevitably it goes that >way. > >Buttigieg has no experience with transportation/infrastructure >or experience managing a big organization, or experience in >federal government/bureaucracy in general. He went from small >town mayor directly to a cabinet secretary. > >To a lesser degree, Becerra at HHS isn't desirable either. I >wish it were someone health policy or health administration >experience > >
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