A Cabinet of Equals

Getting Ready to Break Stuff

The President elect has chosen people to serve in his government who have a lot in common. They are just as qualified as he is to serve. They are iconoclasts, more focused on breaking things than positive roles. They are loyal sycophants.  In a competition for the booby prize perhaps Gaetz is the winner. He is slated to head the Department of Justice if the Senate acquiesces. A couple of years practicing ordinary law. Investigated for sexual predation and drug use. Let’s not forget the vaccine skeptic who will oversee Health. There is also a white supremacist and talk show host. And then the climate change denier slated to eviscerate the Environmental Protection Agency.

The list is not complete without the two super rich entrepreneurs whose advisory role is to chop two thousand billion dollars off federal government expenditures; scrubbing thousands of employees, shutting agencies and transferring some functions to the private sector.

A host of lawyers and the AG’s of blue states will flood the courts with challenges. Expect the Supreme Court not to give the administration a carte blanche if some of the cases go that far. But don’t be surprised if the President thumbs his nose at their pronouncements.

 Pop the corks on the domestic bubbly. It’s almost time for the Grand New Party.