Name by name, Barack Obama's Cabinet taking shape

Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled. Here's a look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs that are still open:

Nominations Announced
Treasury Secretary: Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Secretary of State: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Attorney General: Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general
Defense Secretary: Robert Gates, a holdover from Bush administration
Homeland Security Secretary: Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.
National Security Adviser: Retired Marine Gen. James Jones
Commerce Secretary: Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
National Economic Council Director: Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary
Office of Management and Budget Director: Peter Orszag, director of Congressional Budget Office
Veterans Affairs Secretary: Retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki
Energy Secretary: Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist

Expected Nominations
Health and Human Services Secretary: Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
EPA administrator: Lisa P. Jackson, former commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
U.S. Trade Representative: Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.

To be decided, with the contenders:
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Obama's cabinet is remarkably lackluster.

Clinton is the biggest name amongst them, and she has almost no experience in the field, and has a history of terrible management, infighting and vindictiveness, in the West Wing, at the Rose Law Firm and as head of the Health Care Reform initiative.

Geithner has some serious problems with his involvement in the Lehman fiasco. And the rest of them are either green and inexperienced, or political hacks placed to satisfy an ethnic or ideological interest group.

I do not think this group is ready for prime time.

“EPA administrator: Lisa P. Jackson, former commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection “

This is a a sad sad day.

Even the most ardent strident environmentalists in New Jersey know through first hand experience that she is worse than utterly contemptable. She had little to no control over the day to day operations of the NJ DEP, nor over the big keystone projects, she simply “exists”. She did put her years in working up the ladder, but her tenure as NJ DEP head has seen her remove herself from any attempt to synthesize the concerns of NJ’s citizenry in the policy objectives and flashpoint issues where she was the final word.

Almost every project in NJ she has been credited with have instead been the work of career bureaucrats and public servants who worked at the DEP or associated professions in NJ before she arrived and will continue to work in the DEP or associated fields after she leaves. She like a somewhat despised CEo who is too aloof for her own good.

Expect all the gun control tactics regarding lead contamination to move to the forefront under Lisa P. Jackson’s tenure.

Expect the EPA under Lisa P. Jackson’s tenure to push extremely hard for the US Army Corp of Engineers to arbitrarily claim control of any or every waterway they set their beady little eyes on.

Expect much much more money to flow into urban constituency environmental issues and for monies and resources to drastically be reduced in exurban and rural areas of the USA.

Hopefully the budget crisis will keep her meddling in check, she is a disaster in the mold of Janet Reno and Christie Todd Whitman, brought in to be the puppet and scapegoat because she is easily controlled.

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