Continuing with calling out the idiots Biden hired we begin Part II with America’s military lead:
Austin, Secy of Defense
Aside from going AWOL and not being missed, Lloyd Austin offers a host of evidence of his incompetence. Besides the Afghanistan horror, Austin now knows that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, secretly went behind President Donald Trump’s back to assure the Chinese he would tip them off to the US military’s plans. Why was Milley not removed?
And let’s not let Blinken take all the blame for Afghanistan. Recall that Austin lauded the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Merrick Garland, AG
Garland has been an unmitigated disaster. Aside from being Joe Biden’s personal protector, Garland has many more problems. For example, Crime skyrocketed under Garland. And instead of stemming the massive increase in crime in cities across the country, Garland fudged the numbers on violent crime. However, Garland was no better on petty crime, as he allowed Leftist DAs to not prosecute shoplifters who were destroying businesses and hurting the economy.
Next, Garland targeted concerned parents pushing back on radical Leftist curricula in schools. He bowed to teachers’ unions and school boards who called parents upset over critical race theory and mask mandates “domestic terrorists”. Garland promised to get the FBI involved — a spectacular overreach of federal power, and a clear sign of where he sided when it came to fairness.
Deb Haaland, Secy of Interior
One of the many “If Trump did it, it must be bad” moves. The former president moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, which made sense since the agency oversees 245 million acres in the Western states. But not enough bureaucrats wanted to live there (300 retired or quit), so Haaland is now moving it back to the swamp. But that was the least of her controversies.
As AP reported,
Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are raising concerns about ties between Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and an Indigenous group from her home state that advocates for halting oil and gas production on public lands.
The members on Monday sent a letter to Haaland requesting documents related to her interactions with Pueblo Action Alliance as well as those of her daughter, Somah, who has worked with the group and has rallied against fossil fuel development.
The request comes just days after Haaland decided to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years on the outskirts of Chaco Culture National Historical Park — an area considered sacred by some Native American communities.
Clearly, Haaland is as committed to killing America’s energy industry as Joe Biden.
Tom Vilsack, Secy of Agriculture
Vilsack is facing a revolt from the group that he should consider he staple. Farmer are upset over the administration’s pushing of a capital gains tax, which critics say will would make it very hard for children to inherit farms from their parents. Collin C. Peterson, former Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee wrote:
“I would argue this transfer tax, which could be as high as 43.4%, is the worst idea that has been proposed in terms of its impact on agriculture in my lifetime.”
Vilsack is panned by many others.
Claire Kelloway, writing for The Intercept, called Biden’s choice of Vilsack for the USDA job a symbol of “everything that’s wrong with the Democratic Party.”
She singled out Vilsack’s “pro-corporate policies,” which she says help “drive rural communities away from the Democratic Party.”
Critics who argue Vilsack took credit for addressing historic USDA racism while doing little or nothing to address claims of racist practices by the agency during his time in the Obama administration—including some inside the agency—call Biden’s choice to return Vilsack to the USDA a slap in the face. In other words, Vilsack is the prototypical Democrat: promise Black people everything, deliver nothing.
Gina Raimondo, Secy of Commerce
Another bad choice by Biden is his Secretary of Commercy, Gina Raimondo. She argued ignorantly that companies needed to be taxed more in order to compete globally. “If American business is going to compete, we need these investments,” she said. “And then the question is, how do you pay for them. I don’t know any business leader who thinks that it would be responsible of the president to operate this government as if he had a blank check.”
Common Dreams wrote,
“Raimondo’s loathing of the needy and love of financial power is exactly the behavior Democrats have spent four years rightly decrying in Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,” the Revolving Door Project states on its No Corporate Cabinet website.
Julie Su; Acting Secy of Labor; Marty Walsh left in Mar ’23 to become ED the NHL
Walsh presided over a slow jobs recovery; there are still nearly 3 million fewer jobs today than before the pandemic. His response to the biggest labor shortage in modern history is to support policies that would exacerbate it, including the Labor Department’s employer vaccine mandate that the Supreme Court recently stopped in response to a legal challenge by Job Creators Network and other groups. He supports the renomination of former Labor Department apparatchik David Weil, one of the most anti-small business bureaucrats in American history, who’s waged war on independent contractors, gig workers, and franchises.
Here’s what has been written about Walsh by the Left:
“Where’s Walsh?” is a common refrain on Capitol Hill. Before the CHIPS bill cleared the House in July there was some back and forth over whether a pot of apprenticeship money would go to the Commerce Department or to the Labor Department. “We kept saying, you gonna get to the table?” a former House staffer told me. Walsh, this person said, was “absolutely invisible.” The money went to the Commerce Department. While the Build Back Better bill was still in play, there was some back and forth over whether a different pot of apprenticeship money would go to the Education Department or the Labor Department. It went to the Education Department. “When the chance was there to stick up for his agency,” recalled the former House staffer, “I’m like, really? OK?”
