Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, May 2, 2025

Staffing Is Policy

 How you staff an administration very much drives how that administration functions as a policy making instrument.

Today, Marco Rubio is the Secretary of State and the acting head of USAID and the National Archives. He is about to become acting National Security Advisor. 

Rubio is one of the few "normal" appointees in this administration. He is not some Fox News Bot; he is not some half-hot woman who can pull of institutional cruelty. He was a Senator.

The idea that he could plausibly hold all of those jobs is an indictment of the overall competency of everyone else in that Clown Car.

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