[RC] Fwd: Unity '08 - President and Cabinet by DRB

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi David,

For some reason your message had formatting issues in the archive, so  
I'm resending it here for clarity.

-- Ernie P.

Begin forwarded message:

In a message dated 10/20/2006 9:24:04 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
david.r.block at verizon.net writes:

> Well, let's see if I could pull this off:

President: Mike Huckabee

Governor of Arkansas. In general, I frown on Senatorial candidates  
due to their lack of administration experience.

Vice-President: Joe Lieberman

Senator from Connecticut. The other half of the 2000 Democratic  
ticket has gone batshit insane. His loss of the Democratic nomination  
puts the Democrats in the running for stealing the "Stupid Party"  
label from the Republicans. Somehow, a guy that votes 92 % with the  
Democrats is still a Democrat. Even if the rest of the party are  
Defeatocrats.

Secretary of State: Victor Davis Hanson

Historian and Author: Mexifornia, An Autumn of War, Between War and  
Peace. http://www.victorhanson.com/ Historian and excellent writer on  
Wars and Warfare going back to the classical Greeks.

Secretary of the Treasury: Brad DeLong

"Reality Based" Economics Professor. Chosen to basically balance the  
Libertarian-Republican flavor of this list.

Secretary of Defense: Norman Schwarzkopf

Commander, Desert Storm, 1991. I think that "why" should be obvious.

Attorney General: Eugene Volokh

UCLA Professor of Constitutional Law. Principal of The Volokh  
Conspiracy http://volokh.com

Get the Federal Government back to prosecuting Federal crimes and  
leave other things to the states.

Secretary of the Interior: Tom Tancredo

Hey, he's on your list, shamelessly stolen

Secretary of Agriculture: Dr. Elsa A. Murano

Dean of the College of Agriculture, Texas A & M University. One of  
the largest (if not the largest) agricultural colleges in the nation.  
Why not?

Secretary of Commerce: Arnold Kling

Libertarian Economic Professor, writer for Tech Central Station.  
http://www.arnoldkling.com/ Teaches at George Mason University.

Secretary of Labor: Daniel T. Griswold

Cato Institute Subject Matter Expert on Labor

Secretary of HUD: William Raspberry

Shamelessly stolen from your list

Secretary of Transportation: Mark W. Litzmann

Civil Engineer Professor, Texas A & M University

Secretary of Energy: T. Boone Pickens

Retired Chairman and President of Mesa Petroleum. Practiced  
aggressive takeover policies and aggressive exploration.

Secretary of HHS: Denise Faustmann

Diabetes Researcher

Secretary of Education: Christina Hoff Sommers

Shamelessly stolen from your list.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: John McCain

Senator from Arizona (demoted from his position on your list)

Secretary of Homeland Security: Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore

General in charge of Katrina search/rescue/recovery efforts. Known  
for the "Don't get stuck on stupid" press conference (a more fitting  
target audience has yet to be found).

Ambassador to the UN: P. J. O'Rourke--I kid, I kid (maybe): Orson  
Scott Card

P. J. O'Rourke-Cato Institute Fellow; Orson Scott Card-Science  
Fiction writer and writer at The Ornery American online. The latest  
Ornery American article:

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-10-08-1.html

http://www.ornery.org/index.html

Drug Czar: Radley Balko (heh)

Libertarian pro-legalization spokesman. Blogs at The Agitator. http:// 
www.theagitator.com/

Chairman of the FCC: Tom Hicks

Owner of the Dallas Stars (NHL) and Texas Rangers (MLB/AL).  
Investment Banker and organizer of the Clear Channel/Jacor/AM-FM  
Merger. The Clear Channel experience would really help in having  
first hand experience in what is wrong with US TV and radio regulations.

Director of the CIA: Charles Krauthammer

Stolen shamelessly from your list

Director of the NSA: William F. Friedman

Author of several books on computer cryptography.

FBI: Bernard Kerik

Shamelessly Stolen from your list

EPA: Henry Lamb

Environmental writer for World Net Daily

Department of the Office of Governmental Ethics (oxymoron alert):  
Thomas Sowell

Shamelessly stolen from your list

Surgeon General: Rebecca D. Jackson

Diabetes researcher

Chief of Staff: Dick Armey

Former Congressman, 24th district of Texas, former Majority Leader.  
http://www.freedomworks.org/index.php

Director of the National Economic Council: Megan McArdle

Economist working in New York, blogs at www.janegalt.com

Director of Communications and Media Relations: Tony Snow

Current Presidential Press Secretary

IRS: Neal Boortz

Talk show host, co-author of The Fair Tax book. http://boortz.com/ 
index.html

Lobby Congress for the Fair Tax with the guy who helped write the book.

Policy Advisors:

Juan Williams

Shamelessly stolen from your list

Daniel Pipes

Shamelessly stolen from your list

Robert Spencer

Author of The Truth About Mohamed, and blogs at Jihad Watch: http:// 
www.jihadwatch.org/

Michelle Malkin

Shamelessly stolen from your list: http://www.michellemalkin.com/

Also http://hotair.com/

Ralph Nader

Shamelessly stolen from your list. Token Green Party person.

Mickey Kaus

Political Blogger, Microsoft's Slate Magazine

Director of Administration Publications: R. Emmett Tyrell

Publisher of The American Spectator

Director of Administration Internet Programs: Eric Raymond

Pioneer in Open Source systems development of the Unix operating system.

Department of Legislative Affairs: Mitt Romney

Shamelessly stolen from your list

Senior Advisor: Ron Paul

OB/GYN Doctor, Congressman, 14th District of Texas, former  
Congressman 22nd district of Texas, Libertarian Presidential  
Candidate, 1988. Also known as "Dr. No" for voting against darn near  
everything.

White House Counsel: Mark Levin

Talk show host (follows Sean Hannity on WABC (New York), WBAP (DFW),  
and other syndicated outlets), Constitutional lawyer, Author of Men  
In Black. http://levin.nationalreview.com/

Press Secretary: Brit Hume

Shamefully stolen from your list.