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Betsy DeVoss interview: Why is she qualified to be Education Secretary besides being rich and white?

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Republicans are some of the stupidest people on Earth, why is anybody surprised at DeVoss when Trump's cabinet are equally as unqualified and moronic as their dear leader and his supporters? See Kathleen Hartnett White:
 
greatnoob said:
Republicans are some of the stupidest people on Earth, why is anybody surprised at DeVoss when Trump's cabinet are equally as unqualified and moronic as their dear leader and his supporters? See Kathleen Hartnett White:
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Have any of the other members of the administration been grilled in this way (apart from her and DeVoss)?
 
In my other, earlier work life, I served under Shirley Hufstedler, Terrell Bell, Lauro Cavazos, William Bennett, Lamar Alexander and Richard Riley.

All of these people had been appointed or elected officials with experience in education at the state and local levels of government. They knew about education; they knew about our educational system. They knew how to work with education professionals of all sorts. They knew about the statutes and regulations governing education in its relationship between the federal agency, the states, counties, universities and school districts.

The GOP and the Trump administration think that the American people deserve someone of Devoss's caliber: an ignorant, inexperienced malefactor who is totally out of her element.

The GOP and the Trump administration intends to subvert every major institution of the federal level which they don't like. Yet, apparently, from the popular vote, a majority of the American people would demand that their government be managed in a professional way. And Betsy Devoss's only profession seems to be that of being a rich, ignorant, uncaring, irresponsible GOP activist.

A nothing burger . . . . . Support Trump and Betsy DeVoss if you hate your kids and their future.

An afterthought. As a career civil servant, I got to meet and shake hands with two of those education secretaries: The first, and the last in my list. Cavazos was rumored to sleep for hours in his office. The others seemed invisible: invisible in the building; invisible in the elevator; invisible in the parking basement. they didn't extend their presence to the career staff -- people who were just hired to fill a position and perform a certain job description.

That is what you call a time series or block sample. It is a small sample. But it seems to be a stark statistic. The Democrats who filled the role of USED cabinet secretary seem to have taken their job more seriously, and treated the career staff with a certain dignity and respect. They made an attempt to be visible to the career civil service staff. So the writing was on the wall.

I had turned my RNC donor-membership card into a boot-scraping device for rainy days, cutting a serrated edge on the card with a pair of scissors. At some point, I began to openly scrape the mud from my shoes with it on the building steps when the weather required it. I retired in 1997.
 
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Any of you people accusing me of being racist in this thread have an answer to the question?

If she isn't qualified how did she get hired?
 
mikeymikec said:
Have any of the other members of the administration been grilled in this way (apart from her and DeVoss)?
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There are some hearings put before been Carson that were pretty brutal too. He leads HUD and has near zero experience in that area.

I seem to recall some cringeworthy interviews of Rick Perry the energy Dept head as well
 
deathBOB said:
Yeah but he is black.
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A black neurosurgeon, totally out of his element, and no less ignorant of it than the average Trump voter. This should explode the myth that someone with accomplishments in a highly specialized field cannot be manifestly ignorant and naïve about everything else. But that's like the myth that someone who is fabulously rich (Trump) and fabulously overexposed as a bizarre celebrity (Trump) -- must be "a genius." People actually believe this stuff, or Trump would never have had a following.

I keep looking at these people like Paris Dennard. Dennard is reasonably articulate, but he's a fool and liar. At least Colin Powell suddenly had his vision restored, and must have assumed he was a token tool of the Bush administration. Condoleeza Rice is also another mystery to me because she knows the business she was in.

But then, Bush was a loyal American, driven by other forces. And -- he was a gentleman. And -- he listened to other people, even if that included Cheney. And -- he didn't have an obvious psychological pathology and personality disorder. And -- he didn't have a history with the Russians going back years.
 
deathBOB said:
Yeah but he is black.
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True, but he did the most important thing when it comes to Trump - licked his boots.

"Carson's endorsement, coming just one week after he ended his own White House campaign, gives Trump a significant boost as the Republican nominating contest heads to critical states like Florida and Ohio on Tuesday. Trump said he did not make any promises to Carson about a future role in a potential Trump administration, but pledged that Carson would play a "big, big part" in his campaign"
 
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