Trump picks Elaine Chao for Transportation Secretary

[Frank Cannon]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/politics/trump-picks-elaine-chao-for-transportation-secretary/

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao, the former Labor secretary and wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to be his choice for Transportation secretary, an official briefed on the matter told CNN on Tuesday.
The announcement is expected to come this afternoon.

[Frank Cannon]

Wow. Really draining that swamp.

[ABX]

Little known fact, she was actually caught up in the John Huang/Charlie Trie Clinton scandal when Huang testified that she approached him to redirect funds to her husband, Mitch McConnell.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-03-27/news/0103270206_1_john-huang-cabinet-post-illegally

[TomSea]

Another genius conservative pick.

[Night Hides Not]

Another genius conservative pick.

Wow, that was "unexpected."

The comment, I mean...lol. Another Beltway insider that's been a swamp dweller for decades.

[txradioguy]

Another genius conservative pick.

You honestly don't see anything wrong with that nomination?

[TomSea]

A good pick to broaden the "big tent"; a lot of Asians I know were for Trump though, I don't know if the percentages added up.

Chao was granted a White House Fellowship in 1983 during the Reagan administration.

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From 1996 until her appointment as Secretary of Labor, Chao was a Distinguished Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. She was also a board member of the Independent Women's Forum.[16] She returned to the Heritage Foundation after leaving the government in January 2009.

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U.S. Secretary of Labor
Portrait of Elaine Chao by Chen Yanning in the Great Hall of the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building. It features the American flag, the Kentucky state flag, the U.S. Capitol, and photos of her husband, Mitch McConnell, and her parents, James and Ruth Chao.[17]

Chao was the only cabinet member in the George W. Bush administration to serve for the entirety of his eight years.[18] She was also the longest-serving Secretary of Labor since Frances Perkins, who served from 1933 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[19]

Read More At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao

[musiclady]

You honestly don't see anything wrong with that nomination?

He honestly doesn't see anything wrong with anything Trump does.

Nor will he ever.

If you can bank on anything, it's that Trump will do no wrong, even when he does wrong.   

[Wingnut]

You honestly don't see anything wrong with that nomination?

Dissent or questioning the Trumpster is forbidden. 

[Ghost Bear]

For the people here thinking that Elaine Chao is just Mitch McConnell's wife:

Elaine Lan Chao... is an American politician who served as the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush.

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In 1986, Chao became deputy administrator of the Maritime Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation. From 1988 to 1989, she served as chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush nominated Chao to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation. From 1991 to 1992, Chao was Director of the Peace Corps.

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From 1996 until her appointment as Secretary of Labor, Chao was a Distinguished Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. She was also a board member of the Independent Women's Forum. She returned to the Heritage Foundation after leaving the government in January 2009.

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Chao was the only cabinet member in the George W. Bush administration to serve for the entirety of his eight years. She was also the longest-serving Secretary of Labor since Frances Perkins, who served from 1933 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

So she's been a cabinet secretary before, and apparently not a terrible one.   

[Night Hides Not]

Dissent or questioning the Trumpster is forbidden.

Maybe on TOS, which is freaking out this morning. Trump on the flag, and Chao is generating heat over there.  lol

[Wingnut]

Maybe on TOS, which is freaking out this morning. Trump on the flag, and Chao is generating heat over there.  lol

I love it! 

[Night Hides Not]

I love it!

I don't plan on sending any lifelines, I think that cake has been baked.

[massadvj]

Not surprised by this, and not disappointed, either.  My expectations were low to begin with.   

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Trump's draining the swamp but leaving the turtle, I guess.

[LMAO]

Maybe on TOS, which is freaking out this morning. Trump on the flag, and Chao is generating heat over there.  lol

Looks like a zot wave in the future. FR has a reputation  to remain a safe space for Trump and his supporters

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Looks like a zot wave in the future. FR has a reputation  to remain a safe space for Trump and his supporters

I remember back in 2004-2007ish saying anything remotely unfavorable about Bush was an insta-zot from Der Jimfurher.

[Frank Cannon]

Little known fact, she was actually caught up in the John Huang/Charlie Trie Clinton scandal when Huang testified that she approached him to redirect funds to her husband, Mitch McConnell.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-03-27/news/0103270206_1_john-huang-cabinet-post-illegally

LOL. I forgot about that "Hiccup" in her nomination.

She is about a swampy as any other lifetime resident of DC. 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

LOL. I forgot about that "Hiccup" in her nomination.

She is about a swampy as any other lifetime resident of DC.

That may be true.  On the flip side, for everyone warning about how Trump would be no different than Hillary because he's just a "New York liberal", this is yet another appointment that Hillary would never have made.

[Wingnut]

I don't plan on sending any lifelines, I think that cake has been baked.

All that is left on the TOS Trump train are hardliners, retreads, bleep, twits, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, con men, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, car thieves, bull dykes, ass-kissers, shit-lickers and Methodists.   

[skeeter]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/politics/trump-picks-elaine-chao-for-transportation-secretary/

Secty of Labor under W? Wouldn't that make Chao a key voice in formulating Bush's ridiculously lenient policy towards illegal immigrants?

[Frank Cannon]

Secty of Labor under W? Wouldn't that make Chao a key voice in formulating Bush's ridiculously lenient policy towards illegal immigrants?

Shhhhhh. That's an ancient Chinese secret that should not be discussed.

[Free Vulcan]

All that is left on the TOS Trump train are hardliners, retreads, bleep, twits, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, con men, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, car thieves, bull dykes, ass-kissers, shit-lickers and Methodists.   

Except for 2ndDivisionVet. He's a righteous dude.

[Night Hides Not]

Except for 2ndDivisionVet. He's a righteous dude.

Maybe he's a Methodist... 

[txradioguy]

That may be true.  On the flip side, for everyone warning about how Trump would be no different than Hillary because he's just a "New York liberal", this is yet another appointment that Hillary would never have made.

No Hillary would do just what Donald is doing...appointing inside the beltway people and rich donors to cabinet positions.