Rahm's Replacement: Post your nominations

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Not that the WH reads DU, but who would you pick?

[zipplewrath]

1. That depends

Does Feingold win his race?

[Ninga]

2. Dr. Cornell West n/t

[ecstatic]

3. nevermind nt

[LiberalArkie]

4. If the person has to be like Rahm, then I guess Karl Rove

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Good heavens! No!

OK, allow me to stipulate: must be someone we WANT to see take the job.

[ecstatic]

5. Whoever the President prefers nt

[defendandprotect]

25. Obviously, Obama prefers pro-corporates ... is that what you voted for?

[whistler162]

6. Well it has to be someone to send the "liberals"

into another round of apoplexy!

[gauguin57]

7. Howard Dean

Also, I'm available.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. I've wondered/fantasized about that possibility

Dean, not you...

...sorry.

[Cleita]

11. Dr. Dean would be my choice too

however, I think I would get my unicorn pony first before that happens.

[Individualist]

12. +1

[defendandprotect]

27. Howard Dean --

[Enrique]

10. Alan Grayson n/t

[StandingInLeftField]

13. If, Heaven forbid, Grayson doesn't get re-elected I think that's a good choice.

Talk about a bulldog!

[burning rain]

15. Come on, now.

You gotta know that Grayson will never be appointed White House chief of staff, or to any position. The only offices he can hold are electoral ones. The ranks of professional Democrats are too rife with milquetoasts for him or anyone similarly ferocious to get appointed to anything.

[StandingInLeftField]

26. Yea, you're right.

:(

[burning rain]

14. Most likely it'll be a "responsible moderate"...

someone from the "vital center," well-loved by the Villager media, that sort of thing.

[dembotoz]

16. the "vital center" of my butt in an asshole

[burning rain]

24. I don't like it one damn bit, but I suspect that's what it's gonna be.

.

[HelenWheels]

17. Howard Dean

That would make me happy.

[BurtWorm]

18. As much as I love Howard Dean and what he's done for Democrats

I think that position is beneath him, and I don't think he has a good enough relationship with Congress to be effective. I hate to say it, but it's true. It's dreaming to think he'd even be considered. (I'd love to be proved wrong!)

The person for that position is probably someone few of us have heard about, but someone who has developed a proven method to get progressive momentum going. I have no idea who that would be.

[pdx_prog]

19. How about the Big Dog himself?

I hear he's looking for a gig...:)

[Bryn]

23. No way

especially after he came here to back Blanche Lincoln when we had a perfectly good democratic candidate, Bill Halter.

[ThomWV]

20. Robert Reich

[Cyrano]

21. Jon Stewart or Steven Colbert

[lame54]

22. Bartcop

[Erose999]

28. He'll probably promote Robert Gibbs to that position. And replace Gibbs with Joey Scabs from MSNBC

[Erose999]

29. Or we'll probably get someone from Goldman Sachs or AIG. Because we want to run the government like

a business and those are some of the best businesses to emulate.

[Toucano]

30. Already a done deal...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9230006

[lame54]

31. Is he any good?

[Toucano]

32. I can't say...I don't know much about him.

My first impression is that he can't be worse, and that since he's been with Obama since the IL senate days, he might help get things back to their roots. Which could be very good.