Thread: Trump expected to name Elaine Chao as transportation secretary: Reports

Oh booo! RINO Mitch McConnell's wife in the Trump administration!??!? I pray this is only so Trump can fire Mitch's wife if he starts blocking bills the administration wants.

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Yeah, this to me is his first bad appointment. She was an awful Secretary of Labor. She has absolutely no experience in building roads or engineering or anything associated with the task.

I thought we were supposed to be draining the swamp, not adding water to it? To me this is a very bad choice because the wife of our Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, holds a huge amount of influence over him.

Sorry honey, not tonight because I've got a headache. However, we can discuss it again once you bring that exceedingly generous transportation bill to the floor for a vote. Oh, and you'll get a special treat if you convincingly push it and vote yea. Hmm .......

Well, that part of it I actually support!! We need more appropriations for good roads, fix our bad bridges, modernize our airports, get better trains and other transportation-related infrastructure. I think that's money well spent, especially in a Trump administration because he's going to make sure these bids come in right and we don't overpay for stuff. Now's the time to get all that done, with a businessman who knows how to build and carries these numbers around in his head most of his life, so this will be when we get our biggest bang for the buck.

Maybe that's why he picked her, if so, then that might prove a wise decision after all, for that reason alone. Trump will be all over these numbers these departments are spending. He'll have a White House team of folks who will make sure we get great value and a good job for what we spend on, like we used to in the old days.

Originally Posted by Judy

Well, that part of it I actually support!! We need more appropriations for good roads, fix our bad bridges, modernize our airports, get better trains and other transportation-related infrastructure. I think that's money well spent, especially in a Trump administration because he's going to make sure these bids come in right and we don't overpay for stuff. Now's the time to get all that done, with a businessman who knows how to build and carries these numbers around in his head most of his life, so this will be when we get our biggest bang for the buck.

Maybe that's why he picked her, if so, then that might prove a wise decision after all, for that reason alone. Trump will be all over these numbers these departments are spending. He'll have a White House team of folks who will make sure we get great value and a good job for what we spend on, like we used to in the old days.

That way of thinking is part of the "swamp" mentality Trump was supposed to get us away from.

Hmmmm, I don't think you understood what he meant by draining the swamp. Draining the swamp means ending overpriced poor quality road construction with lower priced superior road construction. Same for bridges and airports and anything else we need to do, like building more levees and sea walls and safe fast trains that people want to ride.

I don't like Elaine Chao, didn't like her during the Bush Administration. But there's some reason Trump chose her, I'm just speculating on the political connection. Maybe she was a good money manager at the Department of Labor, that would be an asset, but she didn't do much for labor, not at all, that was my problem with her. Maybe she'll be great at road, bridge and airport construction, if not the actual work, maybe the contract and funding process.

Don't know, we'll just have to wait and see what he had in mind, probably funding more than anything for his infrastructure program he desperately wants but that some Republicans in Congress aren't all that excited about.

Originally Posted by Judy

Hmmmm, I don't think you understood what he meant by draining the swamp. Draining the swamp means ending overpriced poor quality road construction with lower priced superior road construction. Same for bridges and airports and anything else we need to do, like building more levees and sea walls and safe fast trains that people want to ride.

I don't like Elaine Chao, didn't like her during the Bush Administration. But there's some reason Trump chose her, I'm just speculating on the political connection. Maybe she was a good money manager at the Department of Labor, that would be an asset, but she didn't do much for labor, not at all, that was my problem with her. Maybe she'll be great at road, bridge and airport construction, if not the actual work, maybe the contract and funding process.

Don't know, we'll just have to wait and see what he had in mind, probably funding more than anything for his infrastructure program he desperately wants but that some Republicans in Congress aren't all that excited about.

"Drain the swamp" has been used by a handful of politicians in the past. Trump's usage of the metaphor is not unique and it can be understood to mean a number of things, including getting rid of political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.