Tear It All Down

In keeping with his appointments of people who would like to gut the government and privatize everything:

President-elect Donald Trump selected a charter school advocate and GOP donor from Michigan on Wednesday to be education secretary.

Betsy DeVos becomes the second woman chosen to fill a spot in Trump's Cabinet. Earlier Wednesday, Trump named South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations earlier in the day. Both Cabinet-level positions require Senate confirmation.

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The DeVos family has been active in Republican politics for decades, especially as donors to GOP candidates and the Republican Party. DeVos' husband, Dick, is an heir to the Amway fortune and a former president of the company.

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Hours before the DeVos pick was announced, conservative policy leader Frank Cannon, president of American Principles Project, called her "an establishment, pro-Common Core secretary of education."

"This would not qualify as 'draining the swamp,'" Cannon said, referencing Trump's campaign trail slogan.
  Fox News

Wow. The Republicans don't even want her?

In a statement to Fox News, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said DeVos "has no meaningful experience in the classroom or in our schools."

Like her new boss the president-elect, you mean, who has no experience, meaningful or not, in government?

“In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America."

I would have expected nothing less.

[Neurosurgeon] Ben Carson [...] has been offered the job of secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a person familiar with the offer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the deliberations publicly.

Ben Carson. He tried to run for president. And when the speculation was about Health and Human Services (a post he, a doctor, presumably was not offered) said he wouldn't want to "take a position [in the Trump administration] that would cripple the presidency" because he "feels he has no government experience."  So, I guess Housing and Urban Development is where he's going to get experience.

Carson has not yet accepted the offer, but he tweeted on Wednesday that "an announcement is forthcoming about my role in helping to make America great again."

"The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!" Trump wrote on Twitter in March.

  USA Today

So now, he wants to make her the UN ambassador.

 Lunatics. One and all.

P.S.  DeVos is Erik Prince's sister.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.