To be clear:
We have a President who cannot tell the truth, or is easily
confused, such as “Look what’s happening in Sweden” during a rally in Florida
2/18—I do not want to list all the lies because that would be too long a list…
We have a Vice President who suggested that HIV prevention
funding be drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy, and in
2015 signed Indiana’s Religious Freedom Act into law, allowing business owners
to deny service to any person if they felt that serving them would violate
their religious beliefs.
We have a Secretary of State who started working for ExxonMobil
in 1975 as an engineer and served as the chairman and chief executive officer
(CEO) of the company from 2006 to 2016. He not only has close business ties
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which have generated controversy
particularly in light of the revelations about Putin's business dealings in the
Panama Papers, but has previously been the director of the joint US-Russian oil
company Exxon Neftegas.
We have an Attorney General who was denied a Federal
judgeship on the grounds he was too racist.
We have a Secretary of the Treasury a rich banker with no
experience or known views on policy, whose appointment seems to fly in the face
of draining the swamp—he worked for Goldman-Sachs and went into business for
himself in hedge funds, where he garnered serious criticisms for aggressively
foreclosing on properties due to slight clerical errors.
We have a Secretary of Health & Human Services who, a
House member since 2005, had shown bad judgment by actively trading shares of
medical and pharmaceutical companies while shaping health policy in Congress.
An outspoken critic of the ACA, he has also vowed to “reform” Medicare and
Medicaid.
We have a Secretary of Transportation who is a sheer
testament to nepotism, related to Mitch McConnell, with experience as Labor
Secretary in G. W. Bush’s administration—we all remember how well the unions
liked her, and how much the average working American benefited from her
tenure.
We have a Secretary of Energy who has previously vowed to
dismantle the Energy Department, who “regrets” having said that, and is known
for actively campaigning against big government but during is governorship of
Texas from 2000-2010 doubled the budget for government, and the state has
suffered from budget woes ever since he took office.
We have an Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, a climate change denier, who said that scientists “continue to disagree”
about the science of climate change and that those who deny the science of
climate change are having their right to “dissent” violated, and called a
belief in climate change a religious belief.