Revolving Door: Obama Staffers Who Joined NBC, MSNBC, and CNN, Now Headed to Biden Admin AND other Swamp creatures return

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How Joe Biden's Pick for Secretary of State Might Have a Hunter Biden Problem

New Secretary of State pick Antony Blinken has a long-standing relationship with President-elect Joe Biden going back to their days in the Obama administration, but State Department emails revealed that during that time Blinken appeared to have made a connection with Hunter Biden as well.

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Hunter Biden was the subject of reports about business dealings in Ukraine and China and possible links to his father. Records show that the younger Biden also had ties to Blinken, having scheduled meetings with him while he was on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and Blinken was deputy secretary of state.

"Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things," Hunter Biden said in a May 22, 2015 email to Blinken that the State Department released in 2019, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request.

"Absolutely," Blinken replied. Several emails followed discussing logistics. A separate email from Blinken's assistant on May 27, 2015, listed his schedule for that day. It included a meeting with Hunter Biden set for 3:30 p.m.

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Big Labor Readies for Major Concession from Biden

'It's like putting 100 Christmases together as a gift to labor'

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Congressman warns: Biden oil industry transition could soon halt new plants, hike energy costs

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The Swamp Preps to Take Charge in Washington Again

Here comes President Joebama

The Democratic blue-bloods are back in charge

‘So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when asked about Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Obama sounds a bit of a World King these days, but you can’t blame him for feeling chipper. He has his third book of memoirs out (he only writes about himself, it seems), he’s making millions through publishing and Netflix deals, his great nemesis Donald Trump appears finally to have been vanquished — and his gang is taking charge of Washington again.

Biden revealed a number of his cabinet ‘picks’ this week, and it’s a case of jobs for the old Obama boys and girls. Antony Blinken, deputy secretary of state under Obama, is to be the next secretary of state. John Kerry, the secretary of state under Obama, will be ‘climate envoy’. Janet L. Yellen, a chair of the Federal Reserve under Obama, will be secretary of the Treasury. Alejandro Mayorkas, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, will be secretary of homeland security. Avril Haines, deputy director of the CIA under Obama, will be director of national intelligence. Perhaps the freshest face is Jake Sullivan, the next national security adviser, who turns 44 this week. Yet even he was director of policy planning under Obama, as well as national security advisor to the then vice-president, Joe Biden.

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Report: Joe Biden Plans to Pick Cindy McCain as U.K. Ambassador

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Biden’s Cabinet: What a Hillary Clinton Administration Would Have Looked Like

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Joe Biden Passes Up Symone Sanders for Obama Alum Jen Psaki as Press Secretary

Joe Biden announced that Obama administration alumna Jen Psaki would be his press secretary, bypassing his devoted campaign spokesperson and surrogate, Symone Sanders.

Sanders would be “Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson for the Vice President,” the campaign said in an announcement.

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Biden to name Neera Tanden as budget director: Report

 

President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly tap Neera Tanden to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Tanden is currently the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank. As director of OBM, Tanden will work alongside treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen to address the economic situation brought on by the coronavirus, including the millions of people who are currently unemployed. Tanden would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian woman to direct the OBM.

During the Obama administration, Tanden helped craft the Affordable Care Act. She is also a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and has been critical of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party's more left-leaning members. Tanden attended a number of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners organized by longtime Democratic donor Bernard Schwartz with attendees "from the moderate or center-left wing of the party," according to the New York Times.

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Biden to name Neera Tanden as budget director: Report

 

President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly tap Neera Tanden to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Tanden is currently the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank. As director of OBM, Tanden will work alongside treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen to address the economic situation brought on by the coronavirus, including the millions of people who are currently unemployed. Tanden would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian woman to direct the OBM.

During the Obama administration, Tanden helped craft the Affordable Care Act. She is also a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and has been critical of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party's more left-leaning members. Tanden attended a number of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners organized by longtime Democratic donor Bernard Schwartz with attendees "from the moderate or center-left wing of the party," according to the New York Times.

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In 2015, Neera Tanden Wrote ‘Mess’ Joe Biden Would Make Hillary Clinton Look Better

Neera Tanden, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget, once ridiculed the vice president’s chances at running for president in 2015.

“The good thing about a Biden run is that he would make Hillary look so much better. What a mess today,” she wrote in an October 20, 2015 email to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in October.

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The Return of the Old Order

 

 

The dilemma is that while it was only possible to rule from the center in order to rule at all the old aristocrats had to enter into a devil’s bargain with the radical left and the fixers. The devil will have his due and now they are counting on an “epiphany” to save them.

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Biden Cabinet Picks Support Steep Soda Tax and $2 Trillion Carbon Tax

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Wikipedia Page for New Biden COVID Czar Got a Good Scrubbing

Jeff Zients, a top Biden campaign aide tapped to become the new COVID czar, had some “issues” with his Wikipedia page. Apparently, it wasn’t quite woke enough.

So Zients, or someone close to him, hired Saguaro Strategies, a Democratic consulting firm, to scrub his Wikipedia entry of some less-than-stellar nuggets of information about him.

Perhaps most damning of all the information that was deleted was an observation by a chief executive on Obama’s Jobs Council who said that he thought Zients was a Republican.

That, and his quote that he “fell in love” with the management culture at Mitt Romney’s former company Bain and Company, would not have sat well with the radicals who are apparently vetting every nominee for ideological purity.

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Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender

Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS.

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Biden’s HUD Nominee Sought Leniency for a Wife-Beating Democrat Judge Who Went on to Murder His Wife

Marcia Fudge helped get Lance Mason a light sentence. Now he’s a murderer.

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Biden selects Susan Rice to lead Domestic Policy Council, McDonough for Veterans Affairs

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Susan Rice, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council, and is nominating Denis McDonough as secretary of Veterans Affairs, the transition announced on Thursday.

“The roles they will take on are where the rubber meets the road — where competent and crisis-tested governance can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, enhancing the dignity, equity, security, and prosperity of the day-to-day lives of Americans,” Biden said in the statement.

Rice also previously served as national security adviser during the Obama administration, and will now direct the Domestic Policy Council, a unit with broad purview over Biden's domestic agenda, including health, immigration and education policy. The role does not require Senate confirmation.

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Obama III -  Biden courts disaster with retreads, culture warriors, and scandal

his is not a third Obama term.

—Joe Biden, November 24, 2020

He has a funny way of showing it. Biden's recent moves provide little comfort for Americans looking for a way out of the polarization, acrimony, catastrophism, and hysteria that have characterized politics lo these many years.

Not only is Biden filling his administration with the same people who made such a hash of things from 2009 to 2017. He has also selected, for some of the most important offices, progressive ideologues who believe it is the bureaucracy's job to pick new fights in the culture war. And he's doing it all while his family and his party face new questions about their entanglement with the People's Republic of China.

You are right to feel anxious.

Obama's appointees were known for their elitism, imperiousness, and cocksure expertise. What does Biden do? He brings them back. John Kerry becomes a special envoy for climate—though if you assume he will restrict himself to that portfolio, there's a bridge in Brooklyn you might like to buy. Janet Yellen gets Treasury—and a sure-to-be awkward relationship with her replacement as head of the Federal Reserve. Alejandro Mayorkas was deputy secretary of Homeland Security when he became ensnared in a visa scandal. Biden wants to promote him.

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Biden forms team of insiders

Call it the insider administration.

The incoming Biden administration is shaping up to be a team of insiders filled with Washington household names.

Biden has picked Obama-era officials, members of Congress, and people from his inner cycle for his White House, a move that indicates he is aiming for stability and expertise as he inherits a recession and public health crisis.

This tactic to staff up the White House is the opposite of the drain-the-swamp movement from four years ago, which led to lobbyists scrambling to get to know the incoming Trump administration officials.

“We’re in a transition from an unorthodox administration to an orthodox administration in such a time of chaos with the pandemic and with the transition being somewhat challenged,” said Ivan Zapien, a longtime Democratic lobbyist.

“I get that draining the swamp and being against Washington insiders and lobbyists polls well but, in reality, there are times when you need experience and this is one of them,” he added.

A number of the nominees are familiar to Biden from the Obama years.

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Left seethes over Tom Vilsack agriculture secretary pick

 

President-elect Joe Biden is already struggling to satisfy more liberal Democrats, many of whom are enraged he picked a 69-year-old white man with a questionable civil rights record to lead his Department of Agriculture.

Tom Vilsack, Iowa's two-term governor, is set to reprise his role as agriculture secretary, a position he held for the entirety of former President Barack Obama's eight-year administration. Even if far-left Democrats are seething over Biden's decision to name him nominee-designate.

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The defense-industry swamp is eager to engulf the Biden administration

Just days after the presidential election, a new investment firm called Pine Island Acquisition Corporation quietly began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, with the prospect of becoming a notable player in the $2 trillion defense and aerospace industry. The company’s greatest asset was not its relatively modest bankroll goal of $200 million, but its connections — deep ties to policy establishment figures shaping the incoming Biden administration.

In describing itself to potential investors, Pine Island’s prospectus boasted a leadership team with “extensive access, insight, expertise and management skill” in the defense sector.

In the dawning Biden era, that might be an understatement.

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Dem Diversity Blues

Steven Hayward

Dec. 12 2020

Forget Varsity Blues. (Both the movie and the college admissions scandal.) Right now the putative Biden Administration is suffering from what might be called the “diversity blues.” Democrats have brought this upon themselves with their opportunistic embrace of identity politics.

This story in the New York Times today reads like the Babylon Bee:

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When Mr. Biden nominated the first Black man to run the Pentagon this week, women cried foul. L.G.B.T.Q. advocates are disappointed that Mr. Biden has not yet named a prominent member of their community to his cabinet. Latino and Asian groups are angling for some of the same jobs. . .

. . . the rollout of Mr. Biden’s cabinet and White House picks has created angst among many elements of the party. While some say he appears hamstrung by interest groups, others point out that his earliest choices included four white men who are close confidants to serve as chief of staff, secretary of state, national security adviser and his top political adviser, leaving the impression that for the administration’s most critical jobs Mr. Biden planned to rely on the same cadre of aides he has had for years.

“Added consternation,” the leader of one advocacy group in Washington said of Mr. Biden’s initial picks.

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Pass the popcorn.

Chaser—from CNN (!!) today:

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Trump made big in-roads in Hispanic areas across the nation

A big question was whether Trump’s improvement in Miami-Dade would be replicated in other majority Hispanic areas on the electoral map. The answer from coast to coast is a definitive yes. Trump did considerably better than he did in 2016 across an array of Hispanic areas. . . the movement toward Trump was fairly consistent across the map. . .

One of the more surprising jumps to Trump came in notoriously anti-Trump California. Biden won Imperial County by 24 points, a significant margin. But it didn’t come close to replicating Clinton’s 42-point win in this county — where more than 80% of residents are Hispanic.

Gee, I wonder why Hispanic voters are starting to defect from Democrats?

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Biden set to name former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and former EPA head Gina McCarthy to posts

Joe Biden is reportedly going to name former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to serve as White House climate coordinator dealing with domestic climate policy. 

McCarthy, who held the EPA post under President Obama, is currently the President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council. 

It has previously been announced that Biden tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, a post for which he will be on the National Security Council. 

According to reports, Biden will nominate former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to helm the Department of Energy.

Granholm was the Wolverine State's first woman governor, and if confirmed to serve as energy secretary she would become the second female to serve in that post, according to Politico.

In a November opinion piece Granholm wrote that "the private sector needs greater support and political will from our policymakers to help us fully realize the potential of a zero-carbon future."

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ntroducing the man slated to run the Department of Transportation

Joe Biden is continuing to hand out spoils based upon his claimed election victory. Some positions are going to the technocrats who ran cover for him when his massive family corruption came to light. Other positions are going to leftist activists. Biden has selected Pete Buttigieg as his pet gay activist. After mulling making Buttigieg the Ambassador to China, Biden opted, instead, to hand him the Department of Transportation. That’s quite a plum assignment for a guy with a pathetic administrative record.

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‘Obama 2.0’: Joe Biden’s National Security Team Filled with Obama Administration Retreads

With President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team nearly filled out, one thing is clear — the incoming administration is looking at lot like Obama 2.0.

All Biden’s top national security picks are familiar faces from the last Democrat administration. Former Secretary of State John Kerry is now back as Biden’s international climate czar. Former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken is back as the nominee for secretary of state.

 

Former National Security Adviser to the Vice President Jake Sullivan is coming back as Biden’s national security adviser. Former Deputy National Security Adviser Avril Haines is coming back as the nominee for director of national intelligence.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield is coming back as Biden’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Former Central Command Commander Army Gen. (Ret.) Lloyd Austin has been nominated to become Biden’s defense secretary.

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Biden taps ex-Obama aide Anita Dunn as senior adviser

President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that Obama administration veteran and longtime aide Anita Dunn will serve in the White House as a senior adviser.

The Biden transition team announced Dunn's role as part of a slew of staffing announcements. 

Dunn, a veteran Democratic operative, worked as a chief strategist on the 2008 Obama campaign before serving as White House communications director. She became a close adviser to Biden during the Obama administration.