Obama: Cabinetry

Now comes the fun part in any election: criticizing the guy you were just excited to elect for not making the choices you would. The nerve of Obama to not consult me! I voted! Disillusionment! Disillusionment! Up first is criticizing Obama's cabinet picks, because that son of a bitch decided not to go off the list I sent to him. Was it all the crayon I wrote with? Misspellings? Overuse of the phrase "this fucking guy"? Who knows? On with the most bandied about leaked names.

Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Rep. and 4th ranking Dem in the House. Since it is required by law to mention, he is the brother of Ari Emanuel the basis for the character Ari Gold on Entourage played by Jeremy Piven. Can Piven switch it up to play a Chief of Staff? The man is versatile. Rahm was also the basis for Josh Lyman in the West Wing. Impress your loved ones with that info. Picking Rahm means Obama wants to get shit done and he wants everybody on his side in line should bipartisan efforts fail when the Republicans remind Obama that their definition of bipartisanship is for Democrats to do exactly what Republicans want. A funny part of the announcement that Rahm was offered the job was on Fox, where Karl Rove, himself the Deputy Chief of Staff, criticized the move because he felt that Rahm wasn't an honest broker and wouldn't have the trust of Republicans. Gee Karl, that didn't seem to stop you. Unknown is whether the whole room died of laughter after he said it. If Rahm doesn't take the job, sources say it'll go to Tom Daschle, which would mean an increased emphasis on health care, which is Daschle's big issue.

Treasury Secretary: Larry Summers, former T-Sec under Clinton. Not quite so sure about this one. The guy is sort of a retread, though regarded as smart. His main problem is that he helped support and push for a lot of the deregulation that happened under Clinton's watch. He is a deregulator. The plus is that he warned about some of the problems we're facing before they happened. Another problem is he thought the crisis was caused by all those women in the financial industries who are bad at math. Just kidding, he thinks all women are bad at math.

EPA Head: Robert Kennedy Jr., environmental lawyer and writer and Kennedy. This would actually be a really ballsy choice, second only to putting someone like Al Gore in charge. Kennedy has been on the front lines of environmental activism, support, and creating/making solutions for almost his entire career. What's more is that he's virulently pro-environment and refers to people who oppose change as "flat earthers" and "traitors". He gave a speech at Live Earth that concluded "I will see you on the barricades." At Live Earth. It would be a pretty big signal that the country is done dicking around after the past 8 years.

So there are the first few that were bandied about yesterday. More bitching and nods of "this is what I would have done" as speculation increases and *gasp* actual choices are made.