{"id":7724,"date":"2017-01-20T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2017-01-20T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:17:57","slug":"schadenfreude-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/20\/schadenfreude-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the widely reported request by the Trump Administration for certain Obama Administration officials to stay on, perhaps a trifle of schadenfreude<\/span><\/em> is in order. Let’s have Steve Benen set it up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, let\u2019s also not forget that some of the people Team Trump have asked to stick around for a while have reportedly said no<\/a>, which means those offices will be literally empty at 12:01 p.m. (ET) this today.<\/p>\n

Christopher Lu, the Deputy Secretary of Labor and the former executive director of the Obama-Biden transition, talked to Rachel about this on the show last night, and he noted<\/a> how unusual it is for an incoming administration, 24 hours before the inauguration, to reach out to current officials, pleading with them to stay. It\u2019s evidence of a team that\u2019s woefully unprepared.<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019s worried about the Trump administration\u2019s preparedness, Lu said, \u201cOf course<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can appreciate why this seems crazy, but the fact remains that Donald Trump and his aides knew they had a responsibility to find qualified, competent staff to run key agencies of the world\u2019s dominant superpower, but they just didn\u2019t try very hard to complete this task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Giving her a title might be problematic, but you know her love of country would force her to serve.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Which just leaves me wondering: has Trump considered contacting Hillary Clinton for a little help? After all, she expected to win, and, more importantly, she not only took the job seriously, but she has experience in the field.<\/p>\n

She’s competent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Which is more than most of the members of the Trump Administration appear to be in the government arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the widely reported request by the Trump Administration for certain Obama Administration officials to stay on, perhaps a trifle of schadenfreude is in order. Let’s have Steve Benen set it up: What\u2019s more, let\u2019s also not forget that some of the people Team Trump have asked to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}