When it comes to the government handoff, the Trump Administration isn’t going to make it easy, but the Biden team is on it.
The Biden team has drawn up lists of recently departed senior officials at key agencies to help transition officials get up to speed on ongoing projects, budgets, trouble spots, technology and personnel, a senior transition official said, describing “a whole plan for this contingency where we don’t have cooperation but have to move forward.” The plan was put in place to anticipate refusals of some agency heads to engage even if the GSA declares Biden the winner, the official said, for example from John Ratcliffe, the Trump-appointed director of national intelligence.
Over a decades-long career in Washington, Biden has cultivated a long list of friends, associates and former aides with deep ties in just about every corner of government. Those connections and that experience are reflected in the team he has assembled. Now, their abilities to prepare for a new administration under extraordinary circumstances are being tested. [WaPo]
It shows forward thinking and planning.
So what worries me? It’ll go too well. Biden, with his team and their vast experience and contacts, will assume responsibility so smoothly that we’ll never realize just how well they’ve done their job. The far-right fringe will yammer, Fox News “hosts” will amplify the yammering, and then we’ll end up with a pack of incompetents winning another election in 2024.
Even if the Biden Administration discloses the messes they have to clean up, it’ll never get to the Fox News regulars.
Ugh.
Except … apparently former Mayor and Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) has become quite popular on Fox News. How about Mayor Pete for Press Secretary or Communications Director or Fox News Liaison?
