The Senate voted 88 to 11 Friday to confirm Marine Gen. John Kelly as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
The vote on Kelly came just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in and represented one of the few nominees Democrats were willing to push through swiftly.
Kelly, 66, was previously charged with running the US Southern Command where he became an expert on drug smuggling and immigration. Kelly was a surprising choice for some who feared Trump would select immigration hardliner Kris Kobach to lead DHS.
Kelly is considered one of the least controversial of Trump’s nominees. In 2010, Kelly lost his son Lt. Robert Michael Kelly, a Marine, in combat in Afghanistan.
Trump will have to wait awhile on his other nominees. Democrats have vowed to run out the clock on nominees for the Department of Education, Health and Human Services, Secretary of State, Treasury and others.
I don’t know a fucking thing about him. But who’s asking me?
He does look mean enough in that photo, so I guess he’s good to go in a Trump administration. It’s all about that central casting look as far as Donnie Dimwit is concerned.
Oh ex–cuuuuuse me, that’s President Donnie Dimwit now.
This is why the DC dems are losing because they are cowards.
Not one of the usurpers should get 1 D vote for anything. Make it that if they do win appointment it is by a straight party line vote.
Let the R’s own these crooks, liars, conmen, and delusionalists.
Any D who votes for any of the usurpers appointees to anything should be cut off from any party help and active recruitment for primary challengerss should start the minute they cast their traitorous vote.
Allowing, with their support, any of this scum is a betrayal of their oaths and D principles ( if the D.C ones have any)
But at least the media will traet them nice and they will still get invited to nice parties and be able to look forward to a nice retirement job as a “consultant” or lobbyist for the same people that will now proceed to destroy the country with their endorsement.
Don’t expect anything but blind acquiesces from the r’s but the d’s to follow the script is unacceptable.
But what can you expect when the only time hillary came out of hiding wa to legitimize the usurper.
As with fish the rot starts at the head and works down.
Actually, Gen. Mattis is one of the saner men in the Trump misadministration. He’s a smart man who reportedly detests his “Mad Dog” nickname. His preferred moniker is “Warrior Monk.” Small victories where we can – he will likely stop Donnie from doing something deadly stupid.
We are falling into the trap of being reasonable. He can have that nutcase Gen Curtis LeMay for all I care as long as each nominee is dragged through the mud and asked that all important, key policy question … did you ever f*ck a pig? Make 'em deny it.
I trust Mattis more than any of the others, Kelly is a distant 2nd, past that almost all Trump’s appointees look posionous (Nikki Halley at UN maybe OK). A friend of Putin like Tillerson as SoS is beyond the pale and the people closest to Trump who don’t need advising and consenting are scary as hell. The fact that Reince Priebus, who will be eaten by sharks, comes off as suddenly almost reasonable scares me about myself.