Trump confirms he will nominate Barr as attorney general, Nauert as U.N. ambassador

Yeah, I'd assume it was Bob Barr too, from the title. But I already had heard about the news on another thread.

Speaking of BOB Barr, had that been the choice, I would have had problems with it too. 1990s Bob Barr was an excellent conservative. 2019 Bob Barr is a loose cannon whose 'conservative' credentials cannot be trusted.

As for the candidates Trump did pick, not my ideal choice for Attorney General or UN Ambassador, but I'm OK with both. Could have been MUCH worse (::cough:: Joe LIEberman ::cough::) and so on. I'd confirm both choices.

Weird that so many FReepers are going ballistic at Trump's cabinet picks for being Bush cronies, but blindly loved WHOEVER he picked for a lifetime job on SCOTUS (even though they were ALSO Bush cronyies and their background was well to the left of Trump's cabinet picks... William Barr is on record saying Roe v. Wade was thus wrongly decided and should be overturned, unlike Trump's "Scalia-like" SCOTUS picks both grovelling to RAT Senators in the minority and falling all over themselves to pledge that Roe is super duper settled law)

As I noted, it should be the other way around. A bad cabinet pick will stick around for a few years at most. A bad SCOTUS pick will stick around for decades, maybe even years after the President who appointed him is dead and buried.

I could have lived with Liarman as UN Ambassador provided he goes full hog in endorsing Trump and GOP candidates. (Hey pete did you vote for Lieberman in 2006 or for whatshisname, Schelinger, the GOP nominee who got like 10%?)

I like the Nuart pick though cause of how triggered the left is cause “she’s not qualified”. I couldn’t disagree more, if she has a functioning voice box then she’s more than qualified to mouth off and dunk on the foreign turds, easy job, it requires little actual “diplomatic” skill, the UN is largely irrelevant, I certainly wouldn’t send her as an Ambassador to an important country. Reportedly the position will lose it’s Cabinet-level status (which is really should never have had).

As for Barr, seems fine, honest guy who actually answered “the abortion question” at his last confirmation, but Trump foes seem mollified by the pick.

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