Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The Wall Street Journal speculates. Accurate? Additions? Critiques? Will targeted cabinet appointments help the new president poach the handful of moderate Republicans in the Senate on key issues?
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
When it comes to Cabinet-level appointments, Obama must carefully balance crucial key imperatives: competence; effectiveness; loyalty; and Fucking Over the Hippies.
Simon Kapenda Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... foreign affair and managing the core issues of the US State Department. It’s highest-ranking cabinet level position, in terms of in line of succession to the presidency and order of precedence.Thus, I had been thinking that Obama would select someone with a more favorable public relations front, and I had been thinking that Oprah is the perfect fit for the US Secretary of State job....
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
When it comes to Cabinet-level appointments, Obama must carefully balance crucial key imperatives: competence; effectiveness; loyalty; and Fucking Over the Hippies.
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
The inaugural week (and change) at Law & Disorder was, unsurprisingly, dominated by stories about our pre-inaugural president. The tubes were clogged with speculation about the identity of the new cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer Barack Obama has pledged to create. Tech entrepreneurs like Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos were popular topics of buzz, but that a Beltway insider is more...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Total # of Maximum # of # of Cabinet or % of Women President Women Women Serving Cabinet-Level at Maximum Appointed Concurrently Positions Level Carter 4 2 15 13 Reagan (first term) 2 2 18 11 Reagan (second term) 2 2 18 11 G.H.W. Bush 4 2 21 10 Clinton (first term) 7 7 19 37 Clinton (second term) 9 9 19 47 G.W. Bush (first term) 4 4 18 22 G.W. Bush (second term)...
California Conservative (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Daschle will likely be confirmed to be Obama’s first HHS Secretary. That should be everyone’s worst nightmare. This statement should scare everyone: Daschle, a close advisor to President-elect Barack Obama, is expected to be nominated for this Cabinet-level position if he passes the vetting process. His top priority as HHS secretary would be healthcare, one [...]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, an official close to the incoming chief executive said Friday.
Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
We never expected Obama to keep up with Spain by nominating a majority female cabinet , but we did hope he would keep up with Bill Clinton. President Clinton set the record for the nation's all time high in the number of women cabinet members and cabinet-level appointees . With Obama's choices of Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services and Eric Holder for...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | yesterday
America's new first family is multicultural and diverse, so I'm holding out hope that a Barack Obama cabinet will be a diverse one, too, but not just on ethnicity. I want to see plenty of lipstick and mascara around the first cabinet meeting held by President Obama, too. When lots of names of men started getting floated as cabinet possibilities in the days immediately after the...
Alternet (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to hold the post. And there is no longer anything extraordinary in a president naming women to his Cabinet. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it first, when he appointed Frances Perkins as labor secretary in 1933. Since then, every president but Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy has named women to the Cabinet or to Cabinet-level posts, according to the Center for American Women...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Share WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday.New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in line to become Secretary of State, said through...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... included but surmised it was out of an abundance of caution, a desire to avoid the spectacle of a Cabinet-level or other high-ranking appointee who is discovered to have an unregistered handgun at home. Now, it appears Obama's AG pick, Eric Holder, held plenty of unfriendly ideas about gun ownership during his time as Deputy AG, and filed a brief in support of the D.C. handgun ban...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
I heard that former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) is being considered for a cabinet level position in the new administration. He is thought to be the next Secretary for Health and Human Services. Here is an editorial I wrote back in July 2001 (slightly edited) originally posted on the Catholic Online Forum: Gladiator, Daschle and the leash In [...]
