Jeff Thies wrote:

Regarding the holding up appointments, sigh, if only. Look at Obama's
cabinet: almost all come from government or academia. Very few (like
two - Treasury and AG) have any recent experience in the private
sector. Here's the list:

State - former senator and 1st Lady
Treasury - Wall Street
Defense - holdover
Justice - law firm
Interior - former governor
Agriculture - former governor
Commerce - former governor
Labor - former House member
Health& Human Services - former governor
HUD - city department head
Transportation - former House member
Energy - academic
Education - school superintendent
Homeland security - former governor
Veteran affairs - military

This has got to be the most inexperienced cabinet since that of
Ulysses S Grant.

One could also say that they are the most experienced group. Most,
have extensive administrative experience and were very good at what
they had done.

You preferred then W's technique of whether he connected with them
personally. Heck of a job Brownie?

All these departments are functioning, rather than being broken as
they were under W.

But then, you must have a lot of faith in the private sector. Just
how well do you think this countries first MBA president did?


He actually did quite well. For the first six years we had unemployment
below 5%, the DJIA above 14,000, almost no inflation, 25 consecutive
quarters of economic growth, and so on. All this in spite of two wars,
Katrina, and 9/11.

Then the Democrats took over Congress...