Minutes ago, we learned that Biden has tapped consultant Ron Klain as his chief of staff. Klain may know but the NY Times doesn't know who's going to be in Biden's cabinet anymore that Politico or anyone else does. But this morning The Times listed 50 strong contenders whose names are being bandied about in BidenWorld. Most, as anyone who has followed Biden's career would guess, are terrible.
An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions.-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichLast spring, the Biden campaign decided to hit back hard against accusations of being soft on China. So the campaign produced a blistering ad [above] attacking Trump’s failure to confront China in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Biden ad was xenophobic and racist.“Trump let in 40,000 travelers from China into America,” says the ad’s narrator as ominous music plays in the background.
Neoliberal Democratic presidents do a little balancing dance when they pick their first cabinets. They give a grotesque Wall Street whore the Treasury job and they gave a real progressive the Labor Secretary job. JFK's first Secretary of Labor was Arthur Goldberg, a Steelworkers general counsel who was appointed to the Supreme Court.
