One thing Trump is doing right.

Posted on: November 27, 2016 at 08:21:19 CT

Of course the droolers whine and complain. They're too goddammed stupid to know what should be done. One reason their sorry, worthless ass got beat.
God I despise demlibs.


Trump's Cabinet Has Little Government Experience, And That's Good

There's been an unending stream of stories critical of everything President-elect Trump is doing, including what he ate at Thanksgiving. But none has been as specious as the claim that his Cabinet picks are too inexperienced.

"Donald Trump's Cabinet Is On Track To Be The Least Experienced In Modern History," screams a Huffington Post headline.

This left-wing "news" site is never one for subtlety. But in this case, the headline is completely misleading. "Least experienced" suggests that Trump is filling his Cabinet posts with greenhorns and college interns.

But what HuffPo is referring to isn't "experience" per se, but government experience. Or, even more specifically, federal government experience.

"You have either no experience or the wrong kind of experience," Norman Eisen, who worked on President Obama's transition in 2008 and is now with the Brookings Institution, a liberal-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C., complained to HuffPo.

It is true that many of Trump's picks have spent little or no time collecting paychecks funded by taxpayers.

Trump's choice to head the Education Department, Betsy DeVos, is a wealthy philanthropist from Michigan. Dr. Ben Carson, whom Trump wants to run Housing and Urban Development, was a pediatric neurosurgeon. Trump's pick for Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, doesn't have any government experience, nor does his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. Nor, for that matter, does Trump.

But to say these people have "no experience" is to prove the very point Trump was making throughout his campaign. Namely, that Washington insiders are, as he put it, "truly stupid."

Take Betsy DeVos. All she's done is successfully advocate for school choice for the past three decades. She helped get Michigan's charter school legislation enacted in 1993 and founded the American Federation for Children in 2010, which National Review said "is arguably the most effective education-reform organization in the country."

Given that Trump has promised to push school choice, DeVos has exactly the right kind of experience, which is why school choice advocates are delighted.

How about Wilbur Ross? All he's done over his 78 years is be a hugely successful investor and businessman. Presumably that will come in handy when making decisions at Commerce.

Carson's background doesn't seem particularly applicable to heading up HUD. But then again, how could he do any worse than HUD's previous secretaries? It was under them that HUD helped create the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis, and earned its reputation of being the "poster child for waste, fraud and abuse."

Obama's Cabinet, by contrast, had plenty of government experience, but precious little in the private sector — by one measure, his Cabinet had less than any president since Teddy Roosevelt.

And what did we get in return? Eight years of laws, regulations, mandates and taxes that produced the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression.

Well take Trump and Co.'s "inexperience" any day over that.