Posted on 11/17/2016 7:47:17 AM PST by PeteePie
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Dec 17, 2008 Attorney General Eric Holder Dec 1, 2008 Secretary of Commerce Bill Richardson Dec 3, 2008 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Dec 1, 2008 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Dec 15, 2008 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Dec 11, 2008 Secretary of Health & Human Services Tom Daschle Dec 11, 2008 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Dec 1, 2008 Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Shaun Donovan Dec 13, 2008 Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar Dec 17, 2008 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Dec 19, 2008 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Dec 1, 2008 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Dec 19, 2008 Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner Nov 24, 2008 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki Dec 7, 2008
What a non-issue. Of course it is going to be much harder for Trump - he wants to crush the existing power structure, rather than sustain business-as-usual AND grow government which is what every other POTUS has done. Trump has a much more delicate problem; how to eradicate some government and how to transform it in a conservative direction. His opposition will be huge.
Did anybody else notice the far bigger problem in the chart? Assuming it is showing all cabinet-level positions for those administrations, look at the growth!
Carter 12
Reagan 13
Bush 41 14
Clinton 14
Bush 43 14
Obama 15
That is a BAD trend.
“W” was forced to delay his appointments because of the ongoing recount fiasco.
Thanks. Great graphic. Yet the liberal snooze media is jumping on Trump for being slow.
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Don’t mess up the narrative with facts. The narrative is that Trump can’t win the nomination. Just kidding. He can win the nomination, but he can’t win the election. Kidding again. He can win the election, but he can’t do the job.
Trump can’t do the job. He can’t name a cabinet. Okay, he’s ahead of Obama on naming a cabinet and doing the job, but it’s a different era, so he needs to be held to a higher standard. And, by the way, the huge stock market boom since the election? Obama gets credit, since he’s still in power until January 20, 2017. The sudden boom has nothing to do with the election results. After all, Trump can’t do the job (see narrative above).
Exactly!
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