If Bernie wins the Presidency, who would you like to see in his Cabinet?

[kentuck]

He mentioned on ABC the other day that he might pick someone like Robert Reich for Treasury. That would be a good pick, I think.

But he would need a team that is not connected to Wall Street or the Big Banks and go into the job with the same goals for reform.

Elizabeth Warren would make a great VP !

Sherrod Brown at Labor.

And maybe his first pick for the Supreme Court might be Barack Obama?

However...

However, we all know it is too early to be naming Cabinets. But it is not too early to think about how to bring about reform and what type of individuals would be needed to do the job. Tim Geithner need not apply...

[snooper2]

1. Rhianna

[kentuck]

4. In what position?

[snooper2]

5. Secretary of Defense

[dawg]

2. Van Jones.

I was never happy with the way he got thrown under the bus.

[patricia92243]

3. Since Warrne will not run as prez, I wonder if she would be willing

to run as VP. I don't think so. She feels needed in her Senate seat, and I don't think she is going to budge at this time. Maybe later in her career.

[truebluegreen]

6. Warren needs to stay in the Senate,

She is much more useful there than in a largely-ceremonial office. But how 'bout Alan Grayson at Justice?

[zappaman]

7. Hummel Figurines!

[kentuck]

11. That is a great Cabinet !

[NightWatcher]

8. Thom Hartmann for Supreme Court Justice, or VP, or Dept of Ed, or Interior.....

[hifiguy]

9. If we're dreaming

howzabout Erwin Chemerinsky and Goodwin Liu for the SCOTUS?

[rtracey]

10. Obama

Obama for Supreme Court

[Half-Century Man]

12. How about these people.

President of the United States; Bernie Sanders.

Vice President of the United States; Elijah Cummings, plain spoken, deliberate thinker, experence in the swamp that is the Legislative Branch.

Secretary of State; Barack H. Obama. A top notch negotiator, winner of Noble Prize for peace.

Secretary of the Treasury; Kshama Sawant, Best pick to chair both Medicare and Social Security

Secretary of Defense; Tammy Duckworth, Knowledgeable, dedicated, ovaries of solid steel, intimate understanding of disabled veterans.

Attorney General; Morris Dees (Southern Poverty Law Center). Over thirty years in law. Massive hate group watch network etc etc.

Secretary of the Interior: Phil Radford (Current Greenpeace Executive Director) Specializes in balancing private and public interests on resource management.

Secretary of Agriculture; ------------------------------------

Secretary of Commerce: Elizabeth Warren, interstate trade and wall street trading under her control...yellow puddles form at the NYSE

Secretary of Labor: Robert Reich, good man understanding and works hard.

Secretary of Health and Human Services: ------------------------------------

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Julian Castro, doing well as SHUD he should retain his job.

Secretary of Transportation:---------------------------------

Secretary of Energy: David Danielson, current Assistant Secretary of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Secretary of Education: Rebecca M. Blank, current Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison http://chancellor.wisc.edu/

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Jesse Ventura, Very hard worker not prone to accepting bullshit for functionaries.

Secretary of Homeland Security: Needs a complete do over prior to filling.

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Bill McKibben, Climate change warrior extraordinaire.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget ; -------------------------------




All I've got so far.

[HereSince1628]

18. Reich as Sec of Labor is OK by me...

I think there is a need for someone who understand there is a workplace war against women and minorities

[Half-Century Man]

19. My only counterpoint to that is,

the actions (or ambivalence) to women and minorities is far greater in scope than just the labor dept. Consider a permanent committee on discrimination made up of Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Education.
Or replace the Department of Homeland Security with a Department of Opportunity?

Either is workable.

[HereSince1628]

20. I agree it's a crisis bigger than one cabinet dept...

Somehow, and I'm not sure how, capable advocates have to be put in place to move on that campaign.

[Half-Century Man]

21. Several things ahve to be done.

ERA, Fair pay, breaking the school to prison pipeline, protesting reproductive choice etc. Coordination between the various social tweeks going on would be helpful.

[PeaceNikki]

13. I remember this exercise in 2008 here. A big fight erupted because someone mentioned Kucinich as AG.

Some of us objected since he is, you know... not an attorney.

[LWolf]

14. Diane Ravitch. nt

[hootinholler]

15. Hmmmm

I only have 2 so far:

Sec of State: Jimmy Carter - Proven track record in the middle east

Sec of HHS: Howard Dean - Great organizer, understands medical stuffs.

[HereSince1628]

17. I think Carter is a great American...but for his sake...no

I don't want to suck the life out of a hero.

[HereSince1628]

16. Few currently serving senators or representatives

I don't have a full cabinet... here are a few names I'd suggest

Dean--HHS
Feingold-- if he isn't VP, sec of state
Tim Holden--Sec Agriculture
Udall--Dir EPA
Krugman Sec Treasury or Special Economic Advisor