{"id":88737,"date":"2024-11-14T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88737"},"modified":"2024-11-14T06:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:39:37","slug":"two-degrees-of-cabinetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88737","title":{"rendered":"Two Degrees Of Cabinetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, among Trump&#8217;s current Cabinet nominees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve interviewed designated Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth 2-3 times.<\/li>\n<li>The wife of Doug Burgum (who by some reports has the inside track for Secretary of Energy) is a high school classmate.<\/li>\n<li>One of my dad&#8217;s students in Rugby, ND was an incredibly ambitious young guy named &#8220;Donnie&#8221; Gaetz.\u00a0\u00a0 He won the state debate championship, went on to win the national championship in college, moved to Florida and became a Republican mover and shaker and eventually president of the State Senate, and was a somewhat frequent guest at my parents&#8217; house through the seventies and into the eighties, and who went on to have a son you may have heard of.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, Matt Gaetz for AG.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As happy as I am with all the other nominees, the only upside I can see to this nomination is it&#8217;ll get him out of the House, in time for him not to get confirmed&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d be a reliable Trump ally, and he&#8217;d likely go at the DOJ with a blowtorch.\u00a0\u00a0 Surely we&#8217;ve got better people for both jobs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/11\/whats-with-gaetz.php\">not the only one with questions<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, among Trump&#8217;s current Cabinet nominees: I&#8217;ve interviewed designated Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth 2-3 times. The wife of Doug Burgum (who by some reports has the inside track for Secretary of Energy) is a high school classmate. One of my dad&#8217;s students in Rugby, ND was an incredibly ambitious young guy named &#8220;Donnie&#8221; Gaetz.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88739,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737\/revisions\/88739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}