[Nosterrex]

Perhaps I'm working under an illusion, but I thought that when the people elected a President that they supported his views or policies on which he ran, and that they wanted him to work toward achieving those. The President creates his cabinet to help him fulfill those promises. They have their various cabinet positions based on the President's good graces. If the President chooses competent people to serve on HIS cabinet, they will offer good advice to the President, but they aren't there to be obstructionist.

This desire to have dissenting points of views by cabinet members from those of the President, under the guise of being more intellectual, is an attempt to sandbag President Bush. The liberals are hoping that President Bush's own cabinet will obstruct the President's goals.

[savedbygrace]

I'll let you in on what lies beneath the Dim talking points in this regard:

Since President Bush won by only 3% of the vote, he has to pass nearly as many of the Dims' policies as his own. So, of all the bills he signs in the next 4 years, 48% of them have to be Dims' bills (and one has to be a mix, I suppose.) He only gets 51% of his own.

I'm oversimplifying, of course, but that's the concept.