Democrats Set the Standard for 'Unqualified'

posted by Katie Pavlich at Townhall

As President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his choices to fill his Cabinet for a second term in the White House, Democrats and their allies in the leftist media are feigning outrage over “unqualified” nominees — conveniently ignoring their own record and the “norms” they broke to place their people in powerful positions. 

Given the hysteria around Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), let’s take a look at current Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. 

As the former Attorney General of California, Becerra is not a doctor and has no prior health experience. He’s a hardened, leftist zealot whose only record on health includes suing nuns in order to force them to provide birth control — a move that was found wildly unconstitutional and a blatant violation of their First Amendment rights. Eventually, the nuns were victorious at the Supreme Court.

“The Little Sisters of the Poor—a religious organization run by an order of Catholic nuns dedicated to serving the sick and elderly—have spent nearly a decade locked in a battle for religious liberty,” the Heritage Foundation wrote in June 2020. “The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down a victory for the Little Sisters by holding that the Trump administration had the authority to exempt them and similar organizations from the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring them to provide contraceptive coverage to employees, and that it did so in a proper manner.”

Next, we move on to former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who was chosen as Biden’s Transportation Secretary because he “likes trains” and could use allocated funding to pursue the left’s social justice agenda under the guise of “infrastructure.” Before getting the job and being confirmed by the Senate, Buttigieg’s only background in transportation was failing to fill potholes in South Bend, Indiana. 

“Given Buttigieg’s record in South Bend, he is a curious choice for an administration who wants to ‘build back better.’ South Bend’s pothole problem became notorious with residents and even became one of the primary campaign points for Buttigieg’s successor,” America Rising reported back in December 2020. “For Buttigieg, it seems as if the Secretary of Transportation job is a consolation prize that is more geared towards advancing his political ambitions rather than developing and implementing productive transportation policies.” 

Both of these amateurs were confirmed by senators. I’m not going to get into the number of men pretending to be women, like HHS Assistant Secretary Richard “Rachel” Levine, who are stacked all over the Biden administration. They weren't placed there because they knew what they were doing, instead, they satisfied the Democrats’ identity politics agenda and rejection of meritocracy, especially in a bureaucratic government. 

So, spare us the outrage over Trump’s nominees. The left constantly breaks norms for their own political gain, and when Republicans dare to do the same, especially to upend the D.C. swamp, they throw a fit. Trump’s Cabinet nominees are interested in serving the American people and making Washington, D.C., work for them, which includes cleaning up corruption in the vast and suffocating administrative state. Unlike Biden’s picks, they are not interested in using agencies to force a woke, anti-logic and expensive agenda down the throats of voters. They're ready to get to work.