Now, I'd like Joe to do a slow rollout of his cabinet. One pick a week.

[OAITW r.2.0]

Starve Trump of his political oxygen...give the news shows something to focus on. The coming Big Blue Wave Machine!

[SheltieLover]

1. Great idea!

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. I know this usually happens after the Inauguration, but these are not usual times.

Each cabinet position should be an important cog to assemble the very best and brightest to counteract the virus that is Trump.

[SheltieLover]

5. Absolutely!

Truly run as a team! 👍

[nocoincidences]

2. That is a very good idea.

I'm betting his campaign managers will plan to do just that!

[Hassler]

4. I like the idea. Always earlier in the same day Chump holds his

Task-farce lie-a-thons.

[oasis]

6. #1. Susan Rice (Chief of Staff).

[roamer65]

11. She should be SoS.

Putin hates her.

[oasis]

13. Screw Putin. Biden's administration needs to focus on repairing Trump

damage, and the restoration of our institutions.

As far as priorities are concerned, Putin is merely a fly speck.

[roamer65]

14. I want someone tough on Putin.

I want an anti-Putinist, just like Secretary Clinton.

[oasis]

15. Putin and Lil Kim will be "handled" appropriately. John Kerry,

or Gen. Wesley Clark.

[OAITW r.2.0]

43. Could not agree more. Foreign policy should be-

(1) Fuck/Isolate Putin, but turn cyber warfare on this asshole. Zuckerberg may be worth billions, but why would he want Facebook to help Putin? No Matter, plenty of coders that could fuck up Putin's internet image. Just need a President that Putin doesn't own. I see a growth industry for US programmers, Won't find a lot of Trump's intellectual base doing this stuff.

(2) Repair every alliance we had before Trump. Reset with Iran. Strengthen NATO/SEATO. More than ever. Exit Oil and Invest in Solar/Wind/Renewables. Reduce Defense and Invest in a labor intensive energy infrastructure. Win for the world.

[Squinch]

7. That is really a great idea. I hope someone is reading this.

[happybird]

8. You know what would be fabulous?

A Cabinet of all women and PoC. I know it won’t happen, it was just a thought I had earlier while mulling over where the other VP contenders could be placed. Each one is great and I hope they will all be part of the team.

That would be 45’s bigliest, most tremendous nightmare, and I would *love* to hear all the rw heads exploding!

[NCDem47]

9. Biden should be a boss. Act like the F'n president already.

Don't ask permission. Don't listen to naysayers who say this alienates poeple who are on the fence. Just start a shadow government already. The election is the icing on the cake.

[blm]

10. ✔️

[CottonBear]

12. Secretary of State Susan Rice and Attorney General Sally Yates!

I really want my fellow Georgia Democrat, Stacey Abrams to have a cabinet post or other high ranking position. Maybe, she could be Press Secretary!

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Let's create a Department of Election Integrity!

It deserves to be the most important 1st opening act of this administration. Letting everyone vote is a right and needs to be federalized to ensure that election suppression is done away with.

She'd be perfect for this position. Secretary of Election Integrity. I like it!

[Amaryllis]

44. +1,000,000

[Amaryllis]

45. +1,000,000

[Steelrolled]

17. I think it would be risky

I see little upside, and potential downside. It would be more people to attack, and at least one of the picks would probably have some skeletons in the closet, and would have to bow out before even the election.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Really? I'd take the chance because the more players in the Biden/Harris administration

the more opportunity to bring even more enthusiasm to the ticket. Let the Republican hypocrites try to trash any one of them. They will be well vetted and if they haven't paid some parking tickets, I really won't give a shit.

[Disaffected]

37. I tend to agree:

Seemed like a good idea but there are definite downsides as you point out.

Also, too many folks giving interviews/making statements - greater chance for gaffs, wrong info, perceived infighting and contradictions.

In the balance, not a good plan IMO.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

19. yep...I say after the convention--first, keep the announcements about policy and speakers

then after convention start the cabinet announcements coming + attack ads and attack speeches from Kamala and other surrogates

[Music Man]

20. No, it will never happen that way.

It will look presumptuous, and there's enough to do to win a campaign, let alone vet people for the administration.

There's going to be enough of an onslaught regarding Biden and Harris. You want to put up cabinet nominees vetted during the insanity of a campaign, have it turn out they owe taxes or hired an illegal immigrant, then spend precious campaign time and resources having to answer for them?

The staffs are undoubtedly laying the groundwork for the administration, talking to candidates, etc., but to officially announce any cabinet picks before an election is a bad idea. If it worked strategically, campaigns would already do it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. Sounds like conventional wisdom.

Fuck that. Let them go off on tangents trying to find dirt on every potential cabinet member. Let them go down rabbit holes trying to play gotcha. They have have 85+ days to chase the shadows while the Party coalesces around the Biden/Harris team.

[Music Man]

23. Biden is winning. We don't need to do this.

Respectfully, it's a bad idea, something that will be borne out by the fact that the campaign will take my tack

[OAITW r.2.0]

25. We agree to disagree!

I'm OK with this....lets see how it plays out. It really isn't about policy, it's about the team that Joe and Kamala will be selecting to execute the policy in 2021.

[onenote]

39. +1

[Sympthsical]

22. Why give the Republicans the fodder?

I'm sure the vast majority of us will be pretty pleased with whomever Biden chooses as his Cabinet. But all it takes is one pick with baggage, known or not, and Republicans will go balls to the wall withit.

I say we give them as little as possible to work with before November.

I think Harris is energizing the party, and the party is already pretty energized to get rid of Trump.

I think we're good as is.

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. Note your concern.

Let 'em freak out on a weekly basis on some cabinet pick. While they are doing that, more Democrats and Independents are clicking with the emerging full cabinet that Biden/Harris are running with. Really, compared to the Trump cabinet, I want to see the true potential of this administration on display before the election. I really think it helps solidify the entire line-up as we hit the ground running in 2021.

[Sympthsical]

26. We'll agree to disagree

I'm convinced we're going to win. I was not nearly as certain in '16.

But I don't want us merely to win. I want to blow that stain and all of his works out of the entire ocean. I think Kamala and Joe can do that as they are. Especially once Harris starts laying into him hard. She's going to start getting a lot more coverage now, and she has it in her and more.

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. Agreed! Harris brings the energy and heat to this election.

She will filet Trump, while he's reduced to calling her names. Pence will not say a thing because he has no balls.

[demtenjeep]

27. at least build up the positions each week like he did with the VP pick

that would focus the media and could take from now till Nov

[PatSeg]

28. Oh absolutely

Take up every news cycle and suck the energy out of the room.

[onenote]

30. Terrible idea that thankfully will not happen.

Every president in recent memory, despite vetting efforts, has stumbled with one or more cabinet nominations. For example, Bill Clinton ended up withdrawing nominations of Zoe Baird and Hershel Gober because of controversies surrounding their past. GWBush's nominations of Linda Chavez and Bernard Kerik tanked as well. and President Obama's nominations Tom Daschle is another example. And even Trump, who has appointed more unqualified unethical people to the candidate than one can count, Puzder and Jackson couldn't get confirmed.

Even one flawed nomination would end up being a huge distraction that the campaign doesn't need. And the campaign has more important things to do than vet dozens of potential cabinet members.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. Noted. Disagree. I think more upside than downside on letting the voters know who

are in the Biden/Harris Cabinet. I will take a chance on 1 or 2 of the nominee's being controversial, but let Republicans fight on that level. I sincerely doubt any choices will embarrass Biden, but let the oppo go after them instead of the ticket. They still lose.

[Ilsa]

32. Perhaps if it was limited to just a few posts, like Sec. of Education,

Sec. of HHS, SoS, etc. where the people holding those jobs are ridiculously unqualified or corrupt or both.

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. It does provide an opportunity to provide contrast between the potential and actual.

Can't see how this hurts the campaign. We should put the entire Trump cabinet in this election choice.

[Ilsa]

35. Perhaps the Lincoln Project could feature

Trump's corrupt cabinet cronies.

[OAITW r.2.0]

38. Exactly. When Biden/Harris announces, show the American voter the difference.

We can't lose sight that Trump has put suck-ups in his cabinet for 3.5 years. People that do the opposite of what their office is supposed to do. Name the Cabinet coice and show the difference. Let Trump implode on defending everyone of these sycophants.

[bigtree]

34. Biden and his cabinet at the inauguration

Link to tweet

[OAITW r.2.0]

36. Love it! That's what I'm talking about!

Deconstructing the Trump Fail from 1/21/21 onward. Lets know who will be the real cabinet that won't be kissing Joe's backside for the next 4 years.

[Captain Zero]

40. Not possible. Republican Senators would start running against specific cabinet picks

I would if I was a Republican in deep Trump No-Tails shit.
Also, those future picks may be doing something now in their careers that they don't need the speculation until they get the call later.

[OAITW r.2.0]

41. Huh? Please explain how Republicans run against Cabinet positions?

Do they want to be a Cabinet Secretary under Biden? So their homestate campaign will be to run against a particular Biden Administration Secretary? Sure, cool. That works, unless Biden/Harris/Democrats once again save America from a complete disaster. Jesus, does anyone remember 2008? This is what we do. Fucking fix the fuck-ups of Republican governance. This time, no forgiveness.

[Vivienne235729]

42. I LOVE this idea!! Gaslight them. One week at a time. Lol