shall we launch an anti-Colin Powell no torturers in the cabinet drive? Not because we could succeed, but so we could say that we tried?

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Al Gore?!?!
The climate czar things is alright but why choose a divisive character like former VP Al Gore? I don't trust the man, he's been wrong too many times and he has shouted down real scientists too many times. He is a fraud. Anybody but Gore.

Did this guy vote for Obama? What a genius.

No names for head of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives?

I can't wait.

I think it's a fraud. The tipoff is Raymond Kelly's name listed as a candidate for Homeland Security.

C'mon - I don't have a high opinion of the Obama team when it comes to policy or governing, but nobody over there could be that stupid and still breathe.

Not a very high percentage of women on the alleged under-consideration lists. 7 cabinet, 4 Exec. Offices. Quelle surprise.

Many names already floated, but there are names I had heard nothing about, such as Jim Leach for Ag Scty.

Ah yes. Jim Leach of standing on the House steps to announce he had the smoking gun to take Clinton down. Jean somebody of other, who said she had evidence Bill Clinton had tampered with evidence, witnesses, or something concerning the Jim MacDouglal S&L. Came to nothing, except for few days of televised hearings early in the Clinton administration. This Jean somebody accused other officials in her agency of lying, etc. I've forgotten her name, but she reminded me of the obsessive-compulsive people I knew at work who saw wrong-doing everywhere. Even Ken Starr couldn't find support for her allegations.

And, now, I am going to clear out my driveway. Fer sure. And blow those leaves all over the place.

For several years, leaves have been hanging on to the oak trees until just days before the last yard waste recycling pick up. For two or three years I was raking leaves with snow on them to try to make the deadline (first week of December). One year I had to put leaf bags in my trunk to trundle them to the composting center.

But, hooray! This year the leaves are amost all off--except for a few on my neighbor's oak tree and lots on a grove of oaks in the center of the contiguous block. Those can blow over here, of course, but nearly all nearby leaves are ready to be raked and bagged!

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(bipartisan, symbolic, both Clinton and Reagan appointee, covers everything from abstinence/faith to criminal to civil rights, etc)

--and i don't think sitting Governors are going to get many jobs so Napolitano's out (and she's way too Janet Reno-ish anyway)

"Sam Nunn, whose national security expertise drove his selection as a senior informal Pentagon adviser to Barack Obama’s transition team, sits on the board of a major defense contractor that sold critical infrastructure equipment to Iran.

Nunn, who has staked out a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent experts on nuclear non-proliferation, joined the board of General Electric in 1997, shortly after stepping down from his four terms representing Georgia in the Senate.

From 2000 to 2007, the company won 281 contracts from the Defense Department worth a total of $8.8 billion.

And, in 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission singled out the company’s nonmilitary business in Iran, inquiring in a letter why GE didn’t reveal sales to the country in its corporate filings.

“The issue of whether to conduct business in certain countries is complex,” GE wrote back in July 2006. “We must take into account not only the views of the U.S. government but all relevant stakeholders."

Nunn, now 70 and listed as chairman of “public responsibilities” for GE, was copied on the letter. ..." -- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/110... -- Obama adviser tied to defense contractor

"... Transition chief John Podesta said Tuesday that Obama would look hard at making non-Democratic appointments. Obama will make more than “token-level” appointments of Republicans and independents, Podesta said.
..." -- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/110... -- Obama faces less pressure for diverse Cabinet