If he really does run for the seat we owe him a huge debt of gratitude, he'd be committing to run brutal races in back-to-back-to-back cycles as probably the only Dem who could win them throughout the course of his 70s. Unless he wins both 26 and 28 he should get his choice of cabinet posts outside the big 3 in 2029 if he wants it.
If he really does run for the seat we owe him a huge debt of gratitude, he'd be committing to run brutal races in back-to-back-to-back cycles as probably the only Dem who could win them throughout the course of his 70s. Unless he wins both 26 and 28 he should get his choice of cabinet posts outside the big 3 in 2029 if he wants it.
If he takes a go at it, Brown should be lauded for the runs whether or not he succeeds.
But we need to stop seeing high profile appointments as consolation prizes for those who tried their best but didn't quite make it. Especially considering he would turn 80 before the end of a four year cabinet term. Politics is a knife fight right now for the future our country and planet. We do not have the benefit of being able to turn major positions into rewards for being someone that we like.
All of us might be a lot happier today in an alternative reality where Biden didn't pick Garland as AG but instead went with a more aggressive person who didn't have a high profile failure to advance in their recent history.
I don't think the future of the country will depend on whether Sherrod Brown is HHS secretary instead of a random state health commissioner or another statewide elected. It's not a consolation prize, he's otherwise qualified and taking one for the team should demonstrate he's a team player.
Agreed on Garland but I think he was a reasonable pick even absent the 2016 fuckery. Opened up a seat on the DC Circuit and he's one of the foremost legal minds of his generation. It's easy to look back on the pick as a mistake but given that the entire media is willing to drag Biden back and forth over the coals for pardoning his son, they would've had a full meltdown before he even took office if Biden had put a partisan in there to prosecute Trump.
My choice then was Doug Jones. We needed an Attorney General who pursued the insurrectionists, their funders and backers, dealt with domestic threats and dark money subversion of democracy far more aggressively тАУ and with much more haste тАУ than Merrick Garland did. I think Doug Jones was better prepared to do that.
In retrospect, I think Jack Smith would also have made an excellent Attorney General.
Brazil is an excellent example of how to quickly deal with insurrectionists and coup makers.
Smith should be a top contender for either Attorney General, another Justice Department position, or a judgeship in the next Democratic administration. I'd say the same of Doug Jones but for the fact he turns 75 in 2029.
This is a bigger rant that I don't feel like making today, maybe I won't ever, but my opinion of Biden's presidency is very conflicting with itself. He did an incredible job on the legislative front and getting stuff done with razor thin margins in congress, with our caucuses decently far apart on ideology. Arguably the best at it in my lifetime.
He also horrifically misread the moment that our democracy and country was in and picked people that would slow walk so many monumentally important things. Garland is one of the more egregious examples. January 6 was an attempt to overturn our democracy and ignore the outcome of an election. A swift and effective response should have been priority number one, two, and three for the Justice department. Garland fumbled this, hard, and the damage to our country and systems will last for generations.
If he really does run for the seat we owe him a huge debt of gratitude, he'd be committing to run brutal races in back-to-back-to-back cycles as probably the only Dem who could win them throughout the course of his 70s. Unless he wins both 26 and 28 he should get his choice of cabinet posts outside the big 3 in 2029 if he wants it.
If he takes a go at it, Brown should be lauded for the runs whether or not he succeeds.
But we need to stop seeing high profile appointments as consolation prizes for those who tried their best but didn't quite make it. Especially considering he would turn 80 before the end of a four year cabinet term. Politics is a knife fight right now for the future our country and planet. We do not have the benefit of being able to turn major positions into rewards for being someone that we like.
All of us might be a lot happier today in an alternative reality where Biden didn't pick Garland as AG but instead went with a more aggressive person who didn't have a high profile failure to advance in their recent history.
I don't think the future of the country will depend on whether Sherrod Brown is HHS secretary instead of a random state health commissioner or another statewide elected. It's not a consolation prize, he's otherwise qualified and taking one for the team should demonstrate he's a team player.
Agreed on Garland but I think he was a reasonable pick even absent the 2016 fuckery. Opened up a seat on the DC Circuit and he's one of the foremost legal minds of his generation. It's easy to look back on the pick as a mistake but given that the entire media is willing to drag Biden back and forth over the coals for pardoning his son, they would've had a full meltdown before he even took office if Biden had put a partisan in there to prosecute Trump.
My choice then was Doug Jones. We needed an Attorney General who pursued the insurrectionists, their funders and backers, dealt with domestic threats and dark money subversion of democracy far more aggressively тАУ and with much more haste тАУ than Merrick Garland did. I think Doug Jones was better prepared to do that.
In retrospect, I think Jack Smith would also have made an excellent Attorney General.
Brazil is an excellent example of how to quickly deal with insurrectionists and coup makers.
Smith should be a top contender for either Attorney General, another Justice Department position, or a judgeship in the next Democratic administration. I'd say the same of Doug Jones but for the fact he turns 75 in 2029.
Jones or Smith likely would have been great.
This is a bigger rant that I don't feel like making today, maybe I won't ever, but my opinion of Biden's presidency is very conflicting with itself. He did an incredible job on the legislative front and getting stuff done with razor thin margins in congress, with our caucuses decently far apart on ideology. Arguably the best at it in my lifetime.
He also horrifically misread the moment that our democracy and country was in and picked people that would slow walk so many monumentally important things. Garland is one of the more egregious examples. January 6 was an attempt to overturn our democracy and ignore the outcome of an election. A swift and effective response should have been priority number one, two, and three for the Justice department. Garland fumbled this, hard, and the damage to our country and systems will last for generations.