You've just become President! How do you stock your Cabinet?

[Kits]

I Believe it McGarry and the rules stated that they have to be alive. they didn't say anything about fictional charachters though so I'd have Dirk Pitt as the Secretary of Commerce

Yeah...it's called a joke...

[naval_aviator_2040]

I Believe it McGarry and the rules stated that they have to be alive. they didn't say anything about fictional charachters though so I'd have Dirk Pitt as the Secretary of Commerce

Yeah...it's called a joke...

my mistake. Its been a while since I've been on

[Arc Orion]

It's been a while since you've heard a joke?

[The Cid]

For most positions, I don't really have someone in mind, but I'll at least give a profile, often a fictional character, to give you some kind of idea or caricature.

Vice President - I'm a Libertarian. My VP? Probably not going to be a Libertarian. I would want somebody I respect to be my second-in-command, but the last thing I want is to have a bunch of "yes men" around me to say my every whim is a good idea and good for the nation. I'd likely seek out a long-standing senator or representative that has a history of cooperating with other parties. A sort of "reality monitor" if you will. This would help to ensure the cooperation I would need to get whatever I promised in the election done.

Secretary of State - This is where you look for the most respectable statesman available. What I'm looking for is a SoS that can talk to anybody. I don't care about the party affiliation, and I'd likely start my search far outside of the field of politics. If shit were to hit the fan, my Secretary of State should be the person screaming out to let cooler heads prevail. Someone who can act as an excellent representative of not just my administration, but the nation as a whole.

Secretary of Commerce: Warren Buffett - This is the easiest choice out there IMO. Buffett has made his career out of evaluating businesses and knowing what it takes for a business to succeed. Combine that with his knowledge of market factors, and I just don't see where this guy can go wrong. If anybody can help a boom in American commerce, it's Warren Buffett.

Secretary of the Treasury - Now that our Secretary of Commerce is set, we need someone who can help preside over those markets. What we need in this position is our best economist. You can bet I'd be looking at our most respected economics professors as well as the world's foremost economic analysts. This is, however, where I start to become more partisan. I'm also looking for a Secretary of the Treasury that is in full support of a laissez-faire approach to the economy; one who is all for scaling down government power--especially when it comes to the economy.

Secretary of Education - I need a revolutionary. I need a brilliant, enthusiastic teacher who can figure out a nearly impossible riddle regarding how to improve this system. I need one that has children, who have actually been through the public school system in America mind you, but I do NOT want someone to tell parents how to parent their kids. I cannot stress enough, this is the most important position in any cabinet of mine. Let's make things so good that we all envy our children.

Attorney General: Ted from Scrubs - President Cid will not be kind to litigators. I want lawyers in America to have less power than teachers. I want them to have less power than used car salesmen! So I do not want a powerful attorney to become the AG. I do not want an experienced attorney to become the AG. I want a sniveling weasel that nobody pays a lick of attention to. Let's let the judges deal with the law--it's not the Executive Branch's job IMO.

Secretary of Homeland Security: Jack Bauer - This is how I'd get elected: cost-cutting measures. Instead of having an entire department looking for America's unseen enemies, I'll just pay one amazing badass and his staff of like five people. (Okay, just kidding on these last two. I WOULD like a powerless Attorney General though, and my real SHS will use every reasonable measure to find threats and eliminate them while keeping a close eye on the ethical consequences of those measures.)

Secretary of Defense - A respected General/Admiral, preferably one who fought in war and knows both the occasional necessity and also the horrible effect of war. I think of it this way: nobody's going to be more judicious with when to strike than someone who has been in the thick of it. I've never been. The vast majority of people I'd surround myself haven't been either. And I would never want to be caught with my pants down when it came to being a Commander in Chief.

[StruckingFuggle]

... awesome. Thank you, The Cid.

Edit: And everyone else who gave a serious reply, too.

[collegestudent22]

I think of it this way: nobody's going to be more judicious with when to strike than someone who has been in the thick of it.

Then you are an idiot. Remember MacArthur?

[naval_aviator_2040]

It's been a while since you've heard a joke?

its been a while since i've been on the forum so i still have to get used to the sense of humor again. there's not a lot of humor at my school unless we're drunk. otherwise we just hate everyone

[Rorschach]

Why no Secretary of Partying Down?

[Arc Orion]

there's not a lot of humor at my school unless we're drunk. otherwise we just hate everyone

Wait, how is that different from here?

[Martin Blank]

Let's let the judges deal with the law--it's not the Executive Branch's job IMO.

It absolutely is the Executive Branch's job to deal with the law. Legislative Branch writes the laws, the Executive Branch enforces it, and the Judicial Branch ensures that justice is meted out fairly. Attorneys are separate from the Judicial Branch because it preserves the balance of power.

A proper AG is one that will tell the president when something is illegal, and who is capable of ensuring that whatever investigations have to be made of the Executive Branch will happen impartially, even if it means impeachment and removal from office of the very president that appointed the AG in the first place. There is no position in the cabinet that should be more independent of and capable of standing up to the president than the AG.

[Deacon]

Heh, I read that bit you quoted and thought to myself, "Wait, isn't that the definition of the executive branch??"