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A Thumbnail Guide to Obama Cabinet Picks
Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner -- More of the same, for better or for worse. Sympatico with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke on the bailouts. Wall Street seems happy, for the moment.
Attorney General Eric Holder -- Awful. Hostile to both the Second Amendment and the First, and horrible in lots of other ways.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano -- Mixed. In the short history of DHS, the politician (Tom Ridge) has been much less impressive than the obscure national security expert (Michael Chertoff). But she might be decent on border enforcement.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle -- Grating. We have to listen to that damn stage whisper throughout the coming health care policy debates. Potential harbinger of the apocalypse.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (likely) -- Jury's out. Does she get to bring in Richard Holbrooke as deputy secretary? If so it's a good sign. If not, it may mean the Obama foreign policy team is trying to make her a figurehead Secretary, as Kissinger did with William P. Rogers. Think she'll stand for that?
UPDATE: A reader reminds me that Bill Richardson is reportedly being tapped for Commerce. I often forget about the Commerce Department, and when I remember it I mainly just wish that it would go away. Anyway, if it means that Richardson is being shut out of the foreign policy loop it's probably a good thing.
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around the track| 11.22.08 @ 4:54PM
Don't denigrate the Commerce Department. It puts out some great statistics.
John Tabin| 11.22.08 @ 11:05PM
And when exactly did putting out statistics become a legitimate government function? Somehow Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Bloomberg, the Pew Research Center, and numerous other companies and organizations manage to put out statistics without forcibly taking my money.
ANON| 11.23.08 @ 8:19AM
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Good Post. Watch the Second and Third set of Oval Office Sofa sitters. The OSI folks, the CPUSA folks, the Center for American Progress folks and the Democratic Strategist folks. They have the white papers ready to implement the demise of our USA Society, and economy.
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Eric Dondero| 11.23.08 @ 9:51AM
Clinton, Richardson, Napolitano are all EXCELLENT picks from our Republican perspective, most especially Napolitano. Why?
Cause it means a Republican - Janice Brewer - will automatically be elevated to the Governor's office.
And it gives us a shot for the New Mexico Governorship, and the Senate seat from New York.
Keep on appointing those incumbent sitting officeholders Obama!
WendyG| 11.23.08 @ 10:04AM
I'm reading this morning that Larry Summers is in as Director of the National Economic Council. The feminazis won't like that. Nor will the Jewhater wing of Obamanation.
Jeremiah| 11.24.08 @ 12:12AM
Wendy --
"Jewhater wing of Obamanation"?
Jeesh. That's lame.
I guess the "humanity, children, love and puppies -hater wing of the Republican party" won't agree, but I'm not sure there's a major "Jew hater" contingent among Obama supporters.
And "feminazis"? Isn't that a Rush Limbaugh epithet from like the early 90s? Can't you get Rush to write you some new stuff?
RE: Clinton at State
I'm not a major fan of Hillary Clinton. However, she is very popular with military and diplomatic types. Don't ask me why. Republicans in the Senate seem to like her (much more than they ever warmed to Obama).
WendyG| 11.24.08 @ 9:01AM
>>>"Jewhater wing of Obamanation"?
Yep. The Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Hamas, hard-left wing.
Jeremiah| 11.24.08 @ 9:32AM
Wendy --
Really. It's amusing, but silly. Hamas? Do you know what Hamas is?
Farrakhan? "Hard left wing"? Do you know any left-wingers?
I know it's difficult, but Wendy, the world has changed. What do you think this is, 1972?
Obama put together a broad coalition of voters and won the white vote. He won a majority of voters that has not been seen won by a Democrat since Johnson. 68 million votes.
You and your kitten-baby seal- and apple pie-hating friends need to learn the art of rhetoric -- the art of persuasion.
Louis Farrakhan!
Where have you been for the last year, Wendy?
WendyG| 11.24.08 @ 12:48PM
>>>Hamas? Do you know what Hamas is Farrakhan? "Hard left wing"? Do you know any left-wingers?
Yes, I know what Hamas is, and they wanted Obama to win the election. Conversely, Israelis supported McCain , by and large. Obama also counts among his advisors Jimmy Carter - no friend to Israel - George Soros - a self-hating anti-Israel Jew - and Samatha Power and Robert Malley, also no friends of Israel.
Obama attended the Million Man March, and only distanced himself from Farrakhan when forced to THIS YEAR.
>>>He won a majority of voters that has not been seen won by a Democrat since Johnson. 68 million votes.
True enough. Because he got a free ride from the press.