Senate Republicans are already throwing cold water on President-elect Joe Biden's rumored candidates for Cabinet positions, with no official announcements even made. This makes not letting the Senate Republicans keep a majority—and winning the two Georgia seats that will be decided by runoff elections on Jan. 5—that much more critical.
For example, there's been discussion of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, becoming Labor secretary for Biden. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's No. 2, Sen. John Thune, laughed at the idea that the Senate would confirm Sanders, and just said "No" when asked. So much for that vaunted Senate comity and mutual respect. That's something for Biden to keep in mind if he veers toward that bad habit Democrats have had of thinking they need to give Republicans positions in their Cabinets for the sake of bipartisanship. That's sure as hell not what Republicans have in mind.
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Consider Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, who is retiring rather than running again in 2022, and has been one of the few to say "yeah, Biden won." In an interview Wednesday, Toomey said that Cabinet picks are a "shared responsibility" between the president and the Senate majority. Which is bullshit. The president picks his Cabinet. "So I think people who are well outside of the political mainstream don't belong in really important, senior-level, Cabinet-type posts. And that's why that will be an ongoing discussion, I think, between a Republican Senate and Joe Biden," Toomey added.
Then there's Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican from Wisconsin, who doesn't even think Biden should be getting the intelligence briefings he is entitled to as president-elect—and who is far too stupid to be in charge of a committee like Homeland Security, which he is, indeed, in charge of! "In general, from what I've seen, intelligence briefings are really not worth a whole hell of a lot," he told reporters. "Based on what we see in the SCIF, they don't have much value." If nothing else, we need to take the Senate back so this bonehead doesn't do any more harm to national security.
So, yeah. Let's get Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock elected!