Now that the primary tension seems likely to last for months more, maybe it’s time for a little recreation. So here’s the what-if question for today, while the glow lasts:
What if President Obama decided/had to give all his Dem primary opponents significant roles in his administration? Where would they go? Here’s my list:
Dodd — Attorney General — civil liberties will be primary.
Edwards — A new department of Resource Conservation combining Energy, Transportation, and parts of Interior and other agencies
Biden — Veterans Affairs
Kucinich — Interior — he’s most likely to stand up to the mining, petroleum, agbiz, timber, and real estate development lobbies.
Gravel — National Endowment for the Arts — Gravel is a performance artist. He might enable some really interesting stuff.
Clinton — Education (except I agree with rightwingers that this Dept. should be shut down.)
Richardson — State
The experiment indicates that that all the Dems are capable of something useful. Not so much with the other side. In the event that Obama insisted on this “reaching out” nonsense, I could only come up with two possibilities from the GOP Field of Drones:
Paul — DEA
McCain — Federal Election Commission
That’s what I came up with. How about you?
