Opinion of this Clinton Cabinet on a scale of 1-100?

[Kingpoleon]

Chief of Staff: Huma Abedin
Press Secretary: Robby Mook
Communications Director: Jennifer Palmieri

Secretaty of State: Susan Rice
Secretary of the Treasury: Hilda Solis
Secretary of Defense: James Stavridis
Attorney General: Catherine Cortez Masto
Secretary of the Interior: Larry Echo Hawk
Secretary of Agriculture: Amy Klobuchad
Secretary of Commerce: Caroline Kennedy
Secretary of Labor: Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Anthony Foxx
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Mark Parkinson
Secretary of Education: Donna Shalala
Secretary of Transportation: Julian Castro
Secretary of Energy: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Secretary of Homeland Security: William Bratton
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Heather French Henry

National Security Advisor: Lee P. Brown
Federal Reserve Chair: Richard Cordray
Solicitor General: Jack Conway
U. S. Ambassador to the U. N.: David Adelman
U. S. Trade Representative: Penny Pritzker

[heatcharger]

Why would she appoint Cortez-Masto if she's gonna be the next senator of Nevada?

[Arbitrage1980]

Bunch of uber leftists and quasi socialists.  Ugh.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

I would have Foxx in transportation and keep Castro in HUD. Other than that and the following quote, it's a decent list.

Why would she appoint Cortez-Masto if she's gonna be the next senator of Nevada?

[Seriously?]

I'll be honest, the idea of the government being run by those folks made me throw up in my mouth a bit.

But doesn't Hillary owe current Attorney General Loretta Lynch a few more years as AG in return for her conversation with Bill "about their grandchildren" on the tarmac in PHX?

[TomC]

Caroline Kennedy in Commerce? Pft! Dump her and Shalala, prefer Klobuchar in the Senate unless it's in the top 4 departments- Ag seems almost an insult.

ETA: 69

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

In terms of capability, it's a mixed bag.  She's certainly entitled to Cabinet members committed to her policies.

Having Huma Abedein as Chief of Staff would be an insult to Americans who are rightly indignant about Hillary's failure to, at a minimum, avoid the appearance of impropriety while Secretary of State.  If the Pay-to-Play charges stick, Huma will be revealed to be Hillary's "do-girl" doing the work of linking State and the Foundation in its unholy manner.  If Hillary picks her as Chief of Staff, it would be the kind of "in your face" move that will set the tone for her Administration.  That's fine if she wants it that way, but when the pushback comes, my ears are deaf to her complaints.

[Lyin' Steve]

Chief of Staff: Huma Abedin
Press Secretary: Robby Mook
Communications Director: Jennifer Palmieri

Secretaty of State: Susan Rice
Secretary of the Treasury: Hilda Solis
Secretary of Defense: James Stavridis
Attorney General: Catherine Cortez Masto
Secretary of the Interior: Larry Echo Hawk
Secretary of Agriculture: Amy Klobuchad
Secretary of Commerce: Caroline Kennedy
Secretary of Labor: Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Anthony Foxx
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Mark Parkinson
Secretary of Education: Donna Shalala
Secretary of Transportation: Julian Castro
Secretary of Energy: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Secretary of Homeland Security: William Bratton
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Heather French Henry

National Security Advisor: Lee P. Brown
Federal Reserve Chair: Richard Cordray
Solicitor General: Jack Conway
U. S. Ambassador to the U. N.: David Adelman
U. S. Trade Representative: Penny Pritzker

Concerns:

Hilda Solis has no economic expertise from what I can see.  Secretary of Treasury is the second- or third-most important cabinet position, as you've indicated, and you want to put someone whose experience is serving as Secretary of Labor?  The Clinton economy was created by super-smart Goldman Sachs execs and wall street geniuses who stayed up all night with a cadre of economists tracking the numbers.  Putting someone who probably doesn't know what half the numbers in the jobs report mean in charge of Treasury won't help with that.  No offense Hilda.  Go get an economics degree.

Larry Echo Hawk:  Random third-tier bureaucrat for Interior?

Caroline Kennedy:  Please tell me you're joking.

Heather French Henry:  Minimal experience with veteran's affairs.  She was an advocate for a few years and has about two years in a state-level VA position.  Major VA reform needs to be a top-five priority of the new administration, we're in complete shambles right now.  Putting Heather French Henry in charge is basically saying "we're just going to wait for the Vietnam vets to die instead of solving the problem" because she'll be ineffective.

Lee Brown:  For a domestic position, yes, but he has no international or foreign policy experiences.  National Security Advisor is far too involved and crisis-management a position for on-the-job training.

Jack Conway:  Twice a loser, neither time anything near compelling, why would we reward him?


Also good luck getting Bill Bratton through DHS.  I'd like to see it as much as anyone, but remember that Obama wanted Ray Kelly and got burned by a bunch of leftists screaming about how Ray Kelly was a racist because blah blah blah broken windows.

[Devout Centrist]

Unless Clinton is on an acid trip, no way in hell this cabinet ever happens.

[Hammy]

Should I be ashamed that I have no idea who most of these people are?

[LLR]

Should I be ashamed that I have no idea who most of these people are?

No, it means you have a life

[Trapsy]

In terms of capability, it's a mixed bag.  She's certainly entitled to Cabinet members committed to her policies.

Having Huma Abedein as Chief of Staff would be an insult to Americans who are rightly indignant about Hillary's failure to, at a minimum, avoid the appearance of impropriety while Secretary of State.  If the Pay-to-Play charges stick, Huma will be revealed to be Hillary's "do-girl" doing the work of linking State and the Foundation in its unholy manner.  If Hillary picks her as Chief of Staff, it would be the kind of "in your face" move that will set the tone for her Administration.  That's fine if she wants it that way, but when the pushback comes, my ears are deaf to her complaints.

I agree Human would not be a good pick. but set the tone?, we already know republicans will set the tone that they can't work with Clinton.

Brian Fallon for press secretary.

I really like Susan Rice, but Samantha Power might take it. If it wasn't for Benghazi Rice would be SOS rn but rice would be a good choice just for better clout.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Should I be ashamed that I have no idea who most of these people are?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

In terms of capability, it's a mixed bag.  She's certainly entitled to Cabinet members committed to her policies.

Having Huma Abedein as Chief of Staff would be an insult to Americans who are rightly indignant about Hillary's failure to, at a minimum, avoid the appearance of impropriety while Secretary of State.  If the Pay-to-Play charges stick, Huma will be revealed to be Hillary's "do-girl" doing the work of linking State and the Foundation in its unholy manner.  If Hillary picks her as Chief of Staff, it would be the kind of "in your face" move that will set the tone for her Administration.  That's fine if she wants it that way, but when the pushback comes, my ears are deaf to her complaints.

I agree Human would not be a good pick. but set the tone?, we already know republicans will set the tone that they can't work with Clinton.

Brian Fallon for press secretary.

I really like Susan Rice, but Samantha Power might take it. If it wasn't for Benghazi Rice would be SOS rn but rice would be a good choice just for better clout.

Nah Power has history with HRC and not the good kind.

Huma will have a role, probably a special advisorary role, but the Clintons do have other people, y'know. Huma us far too connected with HRc herself to be Chief of Staff, who have to be more autonomous.

[Lyin' Steve]

In terms of capability, it's a mixed bag.  She's certainly entitled to Cabinet members committed to her policies.

Having Huma Abedein as Chief of Staff would be an insult to Americans who are rightly indignant about Hillary's failure to, at a minimum, avoid the appearance of impropriety while Secretary of State.  If the Pay-to-Play charges stick, Huma will be revealed to be Hillary's "do-girl" doing the work of linking State and the Foundation in its unholy manner.  If Hillary picks her as Chief of Staff, it would be the kind of "in your face" move that will set the tone for her Administration.  That's fine if she wants it that way, but when the pushback comes, my ears are deaf to her complaints.

I agree Human would not be a good pick. but set the tone?, we already know republicans will set the tone that they can't work with Clinton.

Brian Fallon for press secretary.

I really like Susan Rice, but Samantha Power might take it. If it wasn't for Benghazi Rice would be SOS rn but rice would be a good choice just for better clout.

Nah Power has history with HRC and not the good kind.

Huma will have a role, probably a special advisorary role, but the Clintons do have other people, y'know. Huma us far too connected with HRc herself to be Chief of Staff, who have to be more autonomous.

Didn't Samantha Power say HRC was a monster back in 08?

[Kingpoleon]

Chief of Staff: Huma Abedin
Press Secretary: Robby Mook
Communications Director: Jennifer Palmieri

Secretaty of State: Susan Rice
Secretary of the Treasury: Hilda Solis
Secretary of Defense: James Stavridis
Attorney General: Catherine Cortez Masto
Secretary of the Interior: Larry Echo Hawk
Secretary of Agriculture: Amy Klobuchad
Secretary of Commerce: Caroline Kennedy
Secretary of Labor: Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Anthony Foxx
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Mark Parkinson
Secretary of Education: Donna Shalala
Secretary of Transportation: Julian Castro
Secretary of Energy: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Secretary of Homeland Security: William Bratton
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Heather French Henry

National Security Advisor: Lee P. Brown
Federal Reserve Chair: Richard Cordray
Solicitor General: Jack Conway
U. S. Ambassador to the U. N.: David Adelman
U. S. Trade Representative: Penny Pritzker

Concerns:

Hilda Solis has no economic expertise from what I can see.  Secretary of Treasury is the second- or third-most important cabinet position, as you've indicated, and you want to put someone whose experience is serving as Secretary of Labor?  The Clinton economy was created by super-smart Goldman Sachs execs and wall street geniuses who stayed up all night with a cadre of economists tracking the numbers.  Putting someone who probably doesn't know what half the numbers in the jobs report mean in charge of Treasury won't help with that.  No offense Hilda.  Go get an economics degree.

Larry Echo Hawk:  Random third-tier bureaucrat for Interior?

Caroline Kennedy:  Please tell me you're joking.

Heather French Henry:  Minimal experience with veteran's affairs.  She was an advocate for a few years and has about two years in a state-level VA position.  Major VA reform needs to be a top-five priority of the new administration, we're in complete shambles right now.  Putting Heather French Henry in charge is basically saying "we're just going to wait for the Vietnam vets to die instead of solving the problem" because she'll be ineffective.

Lee Brown:  For a domestic position, yes, but he has no international or foreign policy experiences.  National Security Advisor is far too involved and crisis-management a position for on-the-job training.

Jack Conway:  Twice a loser, neither time anything near compelling, why would we reward him?


Also good luck getting Bill Bratton through DHS.  I'd like to see it as much as anyone, but remember that Obama wanted Ray Kelly and got burned by a bunch of leftists screaming about how Ray Kelly was a racist because blah blah blah broken windows.

Hilda Solis has a M. D. in Public Administration. She worked for nearly a year as a management analyst at the civil rights division of the Office of Management and Budget in 1981. In the state legislature, she served on the labor committee. She sponsored a bill raising the state minimum wage $1.50 in -995. When the Governor vetoed it, she made it a ballot initiative using $50,000 of her own campaign money. That gained her statewide recognition. She chaired the state senate labor committee for four(?) years. Besides her work on labor and commerce issues in the U. S. House, she was an active Secretary of Labor and a top defender and ally of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In other words, she knows what the numbers in the jobs report mean.

Larry Echo Hawk has experience in the Department of the Interior and is more qualified than many previous nominees to that post.

Heather French Henry is more qualified than Togo West and Jesse Brown, the two Clinton Secretaries of that department. Reform does not always require vast amounts of experience, especially when one's top deputies are experienced.

Lee Brown is qualified about any and all security matters. He wouldn't need on the job training any more than Condoleeza Rice did.

Jack Conway has the experience, and if he can't run for elected office too well, you might as well appoint him to something he is good at.

[Figueira]

Why bother making the scale 1-100 if you're just going to group the numbers in groups of ten?

[Trapsy]

In terms of capability, it's a mixed bag.  She's certainly entitled to Cabinet members committed to her policies.

Having Huma Abedein as Chief of Staff would be an insult to Americans who are rightly indignant about Hillary's failure to, at a minimum, avoid the appearance of impropriety while Secretary of State.  If the Pay-to-Play charges stick, Huma will be revealed to be Hillary's "do-girl" doing the work of linking State and the Foundation in its unholy manner.  If Hillary picks her as Chief of Staff, it would be the kind of "in your face" move that will set the tone for her Administration.  That's fine if she wants it that way, but when the pushback comes, my ears are deaf to her complaints.

I agree Human would not be a good pick. but set the tone?, we already know republicans will set the tone that they can't work with Clinton.

Brian Fallon for press secretary.

I really like Susan Rice, but Samantha Power might take it. If it wasn't for Benghazi Rice would be SOS rn but rice would be a good choice just for better clout.

Nah Power has history with HRC and not the good kind.

Huma will have a role, probably a special advisorary role, but the Clintons do have other people, y'know. Huma us far too connected with HRc herself to be Chief of Staff, who have to be more autonomous.

Didn't Samantha Power say HRC was a monster back in 08?

She has already made heartfelt apology to HRC in private way back.