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**txradioguy** · 08-15-2011, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by lacarnut

John Bolton for Sect of Defense or UN ambassador.

Remove Newt as Sec State and put Bolton there.

Newt just needs to go back to teaching classes.

**Odysseus** · 08-15-2011, 11:43 AM

This reminds me of a thread that we had in 2009, when Obama was filling his cabinet with tax cheats, communists and assorted academic hacks. My choices then:

http://www.conservativeunderground.c...net+dream+team

Imagine that you are the President-Elect of the United States and have to assemble a cabinet. Who is your dream team?

Here's mine, with the caveat that some departments would be eliminated and merged into other departments IOT scale them back to their few legitimate functions at the federal level:

Vice President of the United States
Sarah Palin

Department of State
John Bolton

Department of the Treasury
Thomas Sowell

Department of Defense
Ralph Peters

Department of Justice
Attorney General
Mark Levin (until a Supreme Court position opens up)
Solicitor General
Ann Coulter

Department of the Interior
Rudy Guiliani

Department of Agriculture
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Commerce
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior and Department of State

Department of Labor
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Health and Human Services
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Housing and Urban Development
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Transportation
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Energy
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Defense

Department of Education
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

Department of Veterans Affairs
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Defense

Department of Homeland Security
GEN David Petraeus

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
Milton Friedman

Environmental Protection Agency
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of the Interior

Office of Management & Budget
Walter Williams

United States Trade Representative
Lawrence Kudlow

United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Victor Davis Hansen

White House Chief of Staff
Bobby Jindal

Press Secretary
Rush Limbaugh

The only change that I'd make to that is that if Bachmann is the POTUS, then I'd want somebody with a really sharp tongue as the veep. Chris Christie has the style, but he's not conservative enough. Maybe Rush Limbaugh, and put Mark Steyn or Dennis Miller in as the press secretary.

**txradioguy** · 08-15-2011, 11:51 AM

Department of Education
Eliminated, functions merged under Department of Interior

I would go one step farther and say "Eliminated by executive order repealing the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) with functions returned to state control"

But that's just me.

**Odysseus** · 08-15-2011, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by txradioguy

I would go one step farther and say "Eliminated by executive order repealing the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) with functions returned to state control"

But that's just me.

That goes without saying, but any Constitutionally legitimate educational functions at the federal level could be handled by Interior, not that there are many.