Enter stage far right John Ratcliffe, Texas congressman. On paper, Ratcliffe has more qualifications for the job than, say, Ben Carson has for his. He served in a Department of Justice counterterrorism position for three years and as a U.S. attorney for one. The more significant resume line: As a member of Congress, he’s bent over backwards to curry favor with Trump, see most recently his barking in the Bob Mueller hearings over the special counsel’s refusal to exonerate the president over obstruction of justice.