Confirmation hearings will begin Tuesday for President-elect Donald Trump’s intended Cabinet nominees.
The Washington Post admits it hates them all. Here’s their “reporting.”
We would not have picked any of his choices for our hypothetical Cabinet.
But, as we have argued for decades, that is not the standard we — or U.S. senators — should apply when evaluating potential executive nominees for Senate confirmation.
The president-elect won the election. He deserves deference in building his team, and the Americans who elected him deserve an operational government, absent disqualifying deficiencies in competence, temperament or philosophy.
By that standard, all but two of Trump’s planned Cabinet nominees seem confirmable — as well as all but two of his picks for Cabinet-rank jobs that require confirmation.