So who makes up the Obama cabinet?

[TexasJack]

Any predictions?

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Not a single republican (not that McCain would have nominated any democrats, of course).

Obama has precisely zero record of any true bipartisanship, he's not likely to change when he doesn't have to.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

EDIT: Double post.

 

[ImaginalDisc]

I'm betting there will be some Republicans in his cambinet, and he'll appoint some Republican judges, and he'll include Republican law makers in dsicussions about policy.

Maybe the Republicans can learn from his example how to behave when they win.

 

[Vorticity]

Sec of State: Bill Richardson

 

[Darat]

Sarah Palin as Secretary of State, with her experience it's a cert.

 

[ZirconBlue]

Sarah Palin as Secretary of State, with her experience it's a cert.

I hear Sarkozy has already given her a call.

 

[drkitten]

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[Sword_Of_Truth]

I'll take that bet. $100 US, loser to publically apologize and donate the money to the JREF?

I don't gamble.

You may feel free to bump this thread and mock me mercilessly should I end up being wrong, however.

EDIT: You appear to be ill able to afford a gambling habit as I am. Given how slow you are on that delete button, I'm not suprised.

 

[drkitten]

EDIT: You appear to be ill able to afford a gambling habit as I am. Given how slow you are on that delete button, I'm not suprised.

Oh, I can afford it, but I didn't want to force you into an embarassing admission.

Given that you decided to make that admission after all, however.....

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

I'm betting there will be some Republicans in his cambinet, and he'll appoint some Republican judges, and he'll include Republican law makers in dsicussions about policy.

Why would he want to? Here's a guy who surrounds himself with people like Ayers, Pfleger and Wright, laments the fact that the courts followed the constitution rather than Das Kapital and just fought a bitter campaign against a man with a real record of bipartisanship and we're supposed to believe this has spawned a textbook perfect centrist moderate democrat?

Why does he need to? Through Pelosi, Ried and company, he effectively owns the legislative branch. The republicans are in no position to threaten him. The party that roared back to claim the house and senate in 1994 is long gone. The current republican party is in near total disarray. Furthermore, a party which comes into power at the start of a depression historically gets alot of slack from the electorate as they percieve the crisis to not be the fault of the guy who just got started. There's nothing that the republicans will be able to make stick for quite some time.

And then there is the fairness doctrine... if that gets pushed through, it will cut off the one part of the media that isn't deliberately, viciously and blatantly hostile to republicans. If their ability to get their message out is crippled, the republican party is done for a generation, maybe more.

Obama is in a near perfect position to create a one-party state.

Maybe the Republicans can learn from his example how to behave when they win.

What example?

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Oh, I can afford it, but I didn't want to force you into an embarassing admission.

Given that you decided to make that admission after all, however.....

What did I admit that was embarrasing?

 

[webfusion]

Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff (is that a Cabinet position?)

A Zionist. Interesting.

 

[TexasJack]

Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff (is that a Cabinet position?)

A Zionist. Interesting.

It sure is a cabinet position, and rumor has it that he has been offered and accepted the job.

 

[dudalb]

It sure is a cabinet position, and rumor has it that he has been offered and accepted the job.

That will send MaGZ into a hissy fit.

I work for the Dept. of Interior, and the rumor mills for the new secratary are in full blast.most of whom I have never heard of.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

That will send MaGZ into a hissy fit.

Because he was totally OK as long as it was just a "token black" in the White House.

 

[dudalb]

It sure is a cabinet position, and rumor has it that he has been offered and accepted the job.

I don't think it is officially a Cabinent position, but White House COS has more power then many "Official" Cabinent positions.

 

[fishbob]

Obama is in a near perfect position to create a one-party state.

Why would he want to?

The reason the Republicans were such big losers yesterday is that they have been so busy trying to consolidate power that they sort of forgot the needs of the country.

Back to the OP: Colin Powell. Let the man actually use some of his capabilities this time.

 

[MIKILLINI]

Not a single republican (not that McCain would have nominated any democrats, of course).

Obama has precisely zero record of any true bipartisanship, he's not likely to change when he doesn't have to.

Not exactly true;
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 was introduced by Democrat Senators Obama and Tom Carper along with Republican Senators Tom Coburn and the "Maverick" John McCain on April 6, 2006.

 

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

Not a single republican (not that McCain would have nominated any democrats, of course).

Obama has precisely zero record of any true bipartisanship, he's not likely to change when he doesn't have to.

Yeah...those bills he introduced with Tom Coburn, John McCain, and Richard Luger were figments of my imagination.