Is this a very good idea?

 

The question I ask in the title of this post is easy to answer.  And my answer is:

I sure don't think so.

Sean Duffy and six others with multiple jobs in Trump’s administration

In case you, dear reader, need clarification, it is not a good idea for one person in a Presidential administration to be doing multiple important jobs. But that's what this pathetic excuse for a Presidential administration is doing.

Here's one example:

"In January, David Richardson began working as the assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD). In May, Richardson got a second job: running the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and he told employees there he was unaware the U.S. had a hurricane season. DHS said he was joking. Hurricane season runs from June to November.

Richardson’s move to FEMA came immediately after his predecessor said it should not be abolished, as Trump had urged. The White House has backed away from abolishing FEMA.

“Both of these job tasks are very complicated,” said James Forest, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and editor in chief of the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence. FEMA responds to disasters, CWMD is supposed to prevent them, and they both require full-time attention, he said.

Doing both, according to Forest, is like saying, “You’re going to be playing quarterback, but you’re also going to be pitching nine innings.”

Here's an illustration of why this isn't a great idea. Yes, it's possible to do, but you have to be very, very good at doing it, or else -- broken plates.