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I'm already adding to my cabinet. Terrific suggestions, folks!
Do we have to even notice tomorrow's festivities? Can we just pretend it's not happening? I know...let's play ROTISSERIE politics. This is a game I invented after the last election. It's like that fantasy baseball game the weird guy in the next office (or the weird guy next to you in the bed) plays. You pick independent players to be on your team. You aren't bound by anything other than you have to have a complete cabinet. Then, for the next four years, skip all political news. Just put your fingers in your ears and sing, "Na na na." Tell yourself pretty little stories about what your rotisserie team is doing.
I'll start. I warn you, I'm just doing this off the top of my head, with a little help from the web. I'll need to change my picks if I come up with a bunch of losers.
President: Barbara Boxer (it's fantasy politics, people)
VP: Barack Obama (Young, inexperienced, I know. But we went to law school together, and if he remembers me it can only increase my chances of getting invited to the White House.)
Secretary of State: George Soros
Secretary of the Treasury: George Akerloff (UC Berkeley Nobel Laureate in Economics)
Attorney General: Kathleen Sullivan (one-time dean of Stanford Law School. Out lesbian. Very smart.)
Secretary of the Interior: John H. Adams, president of the Natural Resources Defense Counsel
Secretary of Agriculture: Michael Pollan (author of The Botany of Desire)
Secretary of Commerce: Nancy Folbre (an expert on time, money, and family values.)
Secretary of Labor: Sara Horowitz
Secretary of Defense: Daniel Berrigan. Priest and Peace activist.
Secretary of H.U.D.: Julian Bond of the NAACP
Secretary of Transportation: Matt Gonzalez (our own SF dude.)
Secretary of Energy: Carl Pope (Sierra Club president.)
Secretary of Education: Dave Eggers. Seriously. Check out 826 Valencia. The guy is an idea machine.
Secretary of H.H.S.: Katherine Gottlieb, MacArthur genius.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Max Cleland
Department of Homeland Security: Richard Clarke (brilliant idea, here, Fred. Thanks.)
EPA: Pam Matson (She knows about greenhouse gases and what they do.)
Chief of Staff: Ideas?
US Trade Rep: HELP!
Office of Management and Budget Director: Would Byron Dorgan work in this slot?
Drug Czar: Ethan Nadelman, director of the Drug Policy Institute
posted by ayeletw @ 1/19/2005 08:51:00 PM
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President Boxer--yes!
I love the whole line up.
For US Trade Rep, how about one of the Yes Men?
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Great idea!
How about Richard Clarke for Homeland Security?
I all for Boxer. Yay!
I'm afraid I don't have any useful suggestions for anyone else at the moment. But can you please find room for someone who will propose a constitutional ammendment outlawing James Dobson? Please?
I don't know much about Carl Pope. I looked him up, of course, but I recommend my Dad instead. He's not American, but this is fantasy politics! He was recently honoured by Scientific American as Energy Policy Leader of the Year for 2003-2004.
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Secretary of Agriculture: Michael Pollan (author of The Botany of Desire)
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I'd want an extroverted, flamboyant even, Chief of Staff: friendly, attentive, the epitome of professionalism. Someone who would shape those suits all up and make them (look) their best. I recommend Carson Kressley.
Of course, your friend Diane can't remember what she chose as her password, so she is commenting anonymously. Such forgetfulness goes right along with the whole bad mother thing. I would add Madeline Albright in there somewhere. In the real world she couldn't be president because she wasn't born in the US, but we're talking fanatsies here. And yes, I am most certainly ignoring today's "festivities." I much rather live in fantasy land.
I decided I liked the idea so much I was going to play too. Here's my line-up:
Great Idea
I like Bruce Schneier for Homeland Security, the guy who wrote 'Beyond Fear'. He's sensible, well-informed and critical. Richard Clarke can probably use all the help he can get, so perhaps Schneier could be Clarke's deputy, focusing on IT hazards and airline security?
Excellent recs...and folks, can you believe how much our resident Dutch correspondent knows about American politics. Puts us to shame. I don't even know who the Dutch president (Prime Minister?) is.
I know they're not real, but I like both C.J. Cregg and Leo McGarrity as chiefs-of-staff. Of course, I'd like Martin Sheen as president, too.
Love it. Fantasy, right? 'Cause I want Paul Wellstone for HHS. I mean, he's dead and all, but still...
And how about Al Franken for Press Secretary?
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I think Joseph Stiglitz would make an excellent trade rep--heck he's even got a Nobel Prize in economics. Or you could go full bore and get Citizen Trade Watch's Lori Wallach.
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I am not enough of a wonk, to play this game at your level, but here's my team.
Very fun game, Ayelet.
Does your fantasy world also have a House and Senate? How about a California Governor? Fox news? Rush Limbaugh? Ronald Reagen postage stamps? Score keeping (like the weird guy next to you does with fantasy football)? Curious minds want to know. Eliyahu
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