Rachel Maddow....

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Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

1. Blind Ambition is a terrible ailment

Dr. Jackson has already demonstrated poor judgment by the very failure to turn down the offer. Somewhere deep in his heart he may know he is making a mistake. If not, maybe those near him will tell him.

[NanceGreggs]

3. This is part and parcel ...

... of the dysfunction in Trump's administration.

Dr. Jackson may feel that despite being under-qualified for the position, he can't do any worse than all the other people who are now being appointed to various positions.

Trump and his cohorts have set the bar so low, anyone who has any familiarity with the department they are supposed to oversee - no matter how limited their experience/expertise might be - probably think that they can wing-it.

If Betsy DeVos and Ben Carson can be appointed to the offices they now hold, why should anyone feel under-qualified for anything by comparison?

What a fuckin' nightmare.

[longship]

8. And Rick fucking Perry!!!!

Who didn't even know that the DOE managed all of US nuclear weapons before he was chosen to head it!!!! Hell!! He wanted to abolish the agency!!!!

And do what with 10,000 nuclear weapons, you fucking idiot?????

[flibbitygiblets]

14. trump obviously saw Perry on Dancing with the Stars, and thought---Energy Secretary material!

[NanceGreggs]

17. Ah, yes, Rick Perry ...

... who is now in charge of a department he stated he would abolish during his presidential run - except he couldn't remember the name of said agency until prompted by one of the other losers on the dais!

[BigmanPigman]

2. Several people as guests on MSNBC said they exact same thing earlier.

The guy is really nice, honest, well liked, etc yet he has no experience for this position. This is a giant department and there is a lot to handle and he is not qualified. It is not a personal attack, in fact it is just the opposite. I don't know what would make an obviously smart, amicable guy to accept this position and in THIS admin?!?!? Is he a masochist?

[old guy]

5. If he is smart and honest, etc as they say

he would refuse the nomination. By accepting he is proving he is none of those things.

[Skittles]

6. honest?

isn't he the guy who said Trump weighs 239 pounds?

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Thank you!!

239 pounds in EACH ass-cheek maybe...

[Skittles]

4. gotta love his profile pic

he looks like a total spook

[Freethinker65]

7. Just like Carson and DeVos. Set up to fail so the programs can be dismantled and privatized

[Kurt V.]

13. this

[SHRED]

9. My reply

Link to tweet

[FakeNoose]

16. Maybe he's dyslexic

... and maybe the scale actually said 293.

[Miigwech]

10. Ask Peter

Observation that in an hierarchy people tend to rise to "their level of incompetence." Thus, as people are promoted, they become progressively less-effective because good performance in one job does not guarantee similar performance in another. Named after the Canadian researcher Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1910-90) who popularized this observation in his 1969 book 'The Peter Principle.'

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/Peter-principle.html

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/Peter-principle.html

[iluvtennis]

11. What Trump is doing is intentional. Putin has instructed his puppet aka Donald to tear down America

...it starts with the gov't organizations. Look at all of the Trump appointees - feware qualified for the positions they hold (e..g, Carson, DeVos, Mnuchin, Kushner, etc, etc)

[SHRED]

12. Why respect a liar?

[Hassler]

18. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[rickford66]

19. Isn't it obvious, Trump wants the VA to fail.

Even the good Admiral couldn't fix it. Time to privatize.