A Dean Administration - List your dream team!

[Scott Lee]

Here's mine -


VP: Dennis Kucinich

Press Secretary: Nancy Pelosi

Agriculture Secretary: Willie Nelson

Commerce Secretary: Tom Daschle (he deserves something for being a GOP punching bag)

Defense Secretary: Gen. Wes Clark

Education Secretary: Howard Zinn

Energy Secretary: Carol Mosley Brown

Health and Human Services Secretary: Dianne Feinstein

Housing and Urban development Secretary: Hillary Rodham Clinton (or Al Sharpton)

Interior Secretary: Paul Begala

Attorney General: John Edwards

Labor Secretary: Studs Terkel

Secretary of State: Bernie Saunders

Transportation Secretary: Jim Jeffords

Treasury Secretary: George Soros

Veteran Affairs Secretary: John Kerry

Environmental Protection Administrator: Ralph Nader

Office of Management and Budget Director: ABTM (anybody but Terry McAuliffe)



And not to be left out, Dick Gephardt gets my nomination for coffee server during Cabinet Meetings.

[Brucey]

1. Very nice list, but don't forget

Robert Rubin and Paul Krugman.

[realFedUp]

8. Paul Krugman to replace Greenspan!

Elliot Spitzer-AG

Ralph Nader-EPA chair

Molly Ivins-Press Secretary

Paul Begala-Chief of Staff....:-) hehehe

[Hoppin_Mad]

2. Ariana Huffington should get a cabinet level post !

Head of the SEC ?

[farmbo]

3. VP AND Secretary of State: Wes Clark

Secretary of (Newly created) Department of Peace: Dennis Kucinich

[funkyflathead]

4. No Ralph Nader

Sorry.

[loudnclear]

5. I like the top two.

VP: Dennis Kucinich

Press Secretary: Al Sharpton

Agriculture Secretary: Willie Nelson

Commerce Secretary: Tom Daschle (he deserves something for being a GOP punching bag)

Defense Secretary: Gen. Wes Clark

Education Secretary: Howard Zinn

Energy Secretary: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Health and Human Services Secretary: Carol Mosley Braun

Housing and Urban development Secretary: Jim Jeffords

Interior Secretary: Joe Liberman

Attorney General: John Edwards

Labor Secretary: Studs Terkel

Secretary of State: William Jefferson Clinton

Transportation Secretary: Barbara Lee

Treasury Secretary: George Soros

Veteran Affairs Secretary: John Kerry

Environmental Protection Administrator: Ralph Nader

Office of Management and Budget Director: J. Rockefeller

[Drifter]

6. Press Secretary: Al Sharpton

I would look forward to Press Conferences.

Imagine seeing Al every single day.

Cheers
Drifter

[stopbush]

7. As much as it would be nice to reward the other Dem candidates

with cabinet positions, you've got to keep the Dem Senators and Reps in place to avoid turning the Congress over to the repigs (or increasing their margins).

here's my picks (not as extensive as yours):

VP: Wesley Clark

Press Secretary: Bill Moyers

Commerce Secretary: Robert Reich

Defense Secretary: A non-military type...or Kucinch (Ha!)...or bring back Cohen

Attorney General: Eliot Spitzer

Secretary of State: Bill Clinton

Treasury Secretary: George Soros

[NewJeffCT]

9. good question

VP: Wesley Clark
Secretary of State: Bill Clinton
Commerce: Paul Krugman
Attorney General: the guy from New York (Spitzer?)

some place for Carol Moseley Braun & Bob Graham...

I'd try to raid as few sitting senators as possible - so, no Hillary Clinton or Dianne Feinstein.

Not sure who my first Supreme Court nominee would be, though.

[mb7588a]

10. Nice list, Here's mine for Kerry

but, taking all the strong liberals from Congress won't help your administration very much.

The best idea here so far is Bill Clinton for Secretary of State. Brilliant. He probably wouldn't take it. :(

Most cabinet positions get filled by people who were Undersecretaries in previous administrations, people who were beat in previous elections (Cleland comes to mind.), Secretary repeats like Minetta and Rumsfeld, and Governors like Ridge, Thompson etc.

VP: Al Sharpton
Defense Secretary: Gen. Wes Clark
Attorney General: John Edwards
Secretary of State: Max Cleland

[jburton]

11. Press Secretaries Al Franken & Al Sharpton

Could be named the Al & Al show.

Most watched CSPAN program EVER!