Williams' position on this is laughable. The Cabinet is part of the Executive branch; it's not there to provide a check and balance. The Secretaries are there to make sure that the President's agenda is enacted in their respective departments. I thought Hume, Wallace, and Kristol did very well in exposeing this transparent attempt to limit Bush's mandate.
Exactly right. Plus, I'm trying to remember when Juan Williams and any of these other "Dem talking point" commentators brought up the lack of dissent on the Clinton Cabinet. In fact, I remember they all walked in lockstep, defending him when he denied his sexual interludes with Monica, and then they all stayed on his cabinet when he had to admit it. None of them dissented from his policy of fooling around with White House interns. So I believe these commentators protest too much about wanting to see dissent on the Bush Cabinet.