Reply #25: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) as Secretary of Transportation [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Then we'll get our rail system.

Also, Cynthia McKinney as Secretary of Commerce. She was so good at going after the international financial pirates.

Amory Lovins as Secretary of Energy.

I'm not sure who I'd get as Secretary of Education, but it would be someone with teaching experience who believed in education, and I mean really believed in education, not in test scores, not in job training, not in getting into a good college, not in creating a holding tank for the under-18 crowd, but in raising up young people who are culturally, politlcally, and economically aware and become life-long learners.

For Secretary of Defense, I'd find one of those guys from the Center for Defense Information, the retired officers who know where the skeletons are and aren't afraid to reveal what they know. Surely some of them have been retired for more than ten years. They'd have the cred to cut the Pentagon budget, something everyone else is too chicken to do.