Transformational Transition Cabinet

Transition President Ron Paul (L) -- Transition Vice President Ralph Nader (I)

DVP National Security (Defense, Justice, State): Colin Powell (R). DVP Commonwealth (All Else): Gary Hart (D)

Counselors to the President: Michael Bloomberg (Commonwealth), Howard Dean (Electoral Reform), Al Sharpton (Poverty & Equality)

Cabinet Position / Party / First Choice / Deputy/Alt / Key Intellect / Comment
Agriculture / Dem / Jim Hightower / Anthony Lovens / Paul Hawkin / Protect family farms, fight racism, food security/safety
Commerce / FC / Clyde Prestowitz[1] / John Bogle / William Greider / Multilateral treaty adherence, global win-win, BoP[2]
Defense / FC[3] / Sam Nunn / Tony Zinni JCS / Chuck Spinney / 450-ship Navy, close foreign bases, peace operations
Education / Ind / Derek Bok / Brian Ray / Paul Ray / Equal across the land, end rote learning, value-oriented
Energy / Grn / Paul Hawkin / Amory Lovins / Herman Daly / Wind & solar, independent in five years, two-way grid
Health & HS / Rfm[4] / Tom Cochran / Donald Burke[5] / Laurie Garrett / Focus on global public health, global mental health
Homeland Security / Rep / Stephen Flynn / Cass Sunstein / H. Rheingold / Bottom-up 114, 119, all languages, phase out, FEMA freed
Interior / Grn[6] / Robert Costanza / Sandra Costel[7] / Water author / Cut water consumption per capita in half
Justice / Ind / Philip Heymann / Jim Turner / Lawrence Lessig / Civil liberties, moral capitalism, protect info. commons
Labor / Ind / Robert Huttner / AFL-CIO boss / Anti-WTO lady / Goal of 60% union membership in four years
State / Rep / Colin Powell / Mark Palmer / Joe Nye / Redirect $100B from NS to Peace & Earth Program
Transportation / Dem / John Claybook / Mary Schiavo[8] / Robbie Cox[9] / Railroads, general aviation, neighborhoods, work nodes
Treasury / Dem / Felix Royatyn / Paul Krugman[10] / Jeffrey Sachs / End deficit, end WTO and IMF, start over
Veterans’ Affairs / Dem / Max Cleland[11] / Eric Shinseki / Joseph Stiglitz / Tell truth about Gulf War disabilities, eliminate backlog
Key Non-Cabinet / Party / First Choice / Deputy/Alt / Key Intellect / Comment
Amb to Israel / Henry Seigman[12] / Hon. Brezezinski / Mike Bloomberg / Two-state solution, $25B reconstruction & water plan
Chairman, NIC / Ind / Jonathan Schell[13] / M. Lowenthal[14] / Jim Fallows[15] / Elevate NIC, create OSINT agency, revitalize all
Chief of Staff WH / Rep / David Gergen[16] / John Podesta / Matthew Miller / Traffic cop, not policy maker
Defense Rv Bd / Ind / Mike Hayden / Bill Lind / Max Manwaring[17] / Balance big war, small war, waging peace, homeland defense
Dir. Classified Intel. / Dem / Jim Clapper / Charlie Allen / Joe Markowitz / Cut secret budget in half, focus on multinational ops/sharing
Drug Czar / MxLn / Alex Cockburn[18] / Ricky Ross / Mike Levine / Empty the prisons (2 yrs svc), spend on prevention & reform
Environmental PA / Rep / Gordon Durnil[19] / Robert Bullard[20] / Joe Thorton / Focus on nuclear waste, chlorine, smog
Immigration / Ind / Pat Buchanan[21] / Bill Richardson / Tsung-Dao Lee[22] / Clean house, secure borders, living wage for citizens
IRS / Ref / Gary Nolan[23] / Phase Out in favor of tax on Fed Res / End indiviaul taxes, tougher on corporate tax avoidance.
OMB / Rep / Sean O’Keefe[24] / B. Heineman[25] / John Kucinich[26] / Restore management, transparent budget, end all earmarks
Patent Office / Ind / Jim Turner / Cass Sunstein / Richard Stallman[27] / Use it within 5 years or lose it, community rights restored
Policy DG[28] / Grn? / Michael Bloomberg / Ray Paul / David Walker / Integrate security, competiveness policy & balanced budget.
Intelligence DG[29] / Rep / Brent Scowcroft / Jack Devine / Robert Steele[30] / Implement the reforms in the 15 books on IC refom.
Research DG / Grn? / Yochai Benkler[31] / NJ Green / Vint Cerf[32] / Focus on standards, interoperability, human productivity.
Strategy DG / Rep / David Abshire[33] / Bert Lance[34] / Steve Metz / Establish long-term planning, inter-agency focus.
Surgeon General / D. Himmelfarb / James Balch[35] / Jim Turner / Go after obesity, alcohol, drugs, smoking, & preservatives.
Trade Rep. / Rep / Alfred Eckes[36] / Terminator / Lou Dobbs / Fair trade with labor rights as a fundamental
UN Ambassador[37] / Dem / Carol Mosley B. / D. Kucinich / Mark Palmer / Dramatically improve US role and relations

DOI: 19 Mar 08. Prepared by Robert Steele, with assistance from Richard Bell, Jock Gill, and others. Direct 703.266.6393, cell 703.242.1701.

[1] Served under Reagan, author of ROGUE NATION: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions

[2] BoP refers to C. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which posits that capitalism must refocus from the one billion at the top with a one trillion income, to the five billion at the bottom with four trillion in income. Empowering the poor and unleashing their entrepreneurial spirit will create infinite wealth and ameliorate most of the top ten threats identified by the High-Level Threat Panel of the United Nations (LtGen Scowcroft as US rrpresentative).

[3] Nurture a new party, the Fiscal Conservatives, combining moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats—take the middle away from the extreme Right.

[4] Although the Cabinet officer need not be (but ideally would be) someone with Reformist credentials, sufficient subordinate positions could be assigned to Reform-approved individuals so as to cause Reform Party to feel they have been given stakre-holder status in this Department.

[5] Resident expert on international health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

[6] Although the Cabinet officer need not be (but ideally would be) someone with Green credentials, sufficient subordinate positions could be assigned to Reform-approved individuals so as to cause Reform Party to feel they have been given stake-holder status in this Department.

[7] Director of the Global Water Policy Program and author of The Last Oasis

[8] Specializes in airline safety and security.

[9] Sierra Club President

[10] Princeton economist and NYT journalist, author of The Great Unraveling.

[11] He’s done it before, we haveover 250,000 new disabled veterans from two Gulf Wars, make it a much more important job with lasting benefits to all veterans.

[12] Director of Middle East Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, strong believer in the two-state solution, give him a 10 year appointment and the money to make it work.

[13] At Yale Law, author of Unconquerable World, knows what questions to ask and what values to weigh.

[14] Close to Porter Goss, provides a Republican balance, strong experience across Congressional Research Service, Department of State, in open source intelligence world, and as de facto Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis & Production.

[15] Very strong Atlantic Monthly journalist, several others, such as Robert Kaplan, Tom Friedman, could comprise a virtual oversight board.

[16] Honest broker, serves as traffic cop and omsbudsman, not policy driver.

[17] Colonel (Retired) and PhD, author and editor of Search for Security, Environmental Security and many other seminal works in defense strategy.

[18] Non-sectarian Marxist-Leninist.

[19] Served in Bush I, author of _Making of a Conservative Environmentalist.

[20] Leading expert on environmental racism and justice.

[21] Strong on a flat tax and dumping of tax code, could lead a revolution in simplification of taxes—IRS gives citizens wrong information close to 75% of the time. Tax reform is a huge issue, major draw for all but the most wealthy Americans.

[22] Asian-American, Nobel Laureate in Physics

[23] Libertarian candidate for President, has strong views that could help to shake up IRS (needs to be combined with very robust enforcement on corporate tax collection and reduction or elimination of all corporate and special interest loopholes—probably warrants a joint conference committee on the Hill.

[24] Deputy OMB under Bush, moved to NASA, respected by OMB professionals.

[25] United Technologies executive, recent past president of American National Standards Institute (ANSI), can get standards back into play such that America experiences both a major revitalization of economic productivity, and increased foreign sales from better inter-operability. Focus on global information society.

[26] Republican, nine-term Congressman, Budget Committee, committed to balanced budget.

[27] Independent in every sense. Will liberate the knowledge that is locked up for the wrong reason, while revitalizing intellectual property rights in cyber-era.

[28] Policy PG supervises a deputy for national security, a deputy for national (economic) competitiveness, and a deputy for “ends and means” or national resources of all kinds—water, energy, demographics, land, money. This is an effective”demotion” of the national security advisor position, and an elevation of a more holistic form of policy-making.

[29] DG: Director General, one of four new positions in the EOP, one each for Policy (senior position), Intelligence, Strategy, and Research (coordinating government and private sector research & development for optimal advances in economic productivity and sustainable environment).

[30] Top intelligence reformer, can cut secret intelligence budget in half and help rationalize rest of government, finding $500B in new revenue, $500B in savings from waste across all Cabinet departments that can be re-directed. “Intelligence” should apply to all Cabinet jurisdictions, help President manage without falling victim to “cooking the books” by the Cabinet stake-holders.

[31] Author of Wealth of Networks

[32] True father of the Internet and of the Internet standards process. Hugely respected world-wide, could eventually orchestrate global R&D investments. Can also create Center for Computational Mathemeatics and oversee the urgently needed oversight and regulation of Google, which has become a swupranational predator that could overnight crash stock prices in banking, communications, computing, entertainment, and publishing.

[33] Former defense aide to Senator Gary Hart, first proponent for maneuver warfare, leader of the Cultural Conservatives, big-picture and long-term view.

[34] Regardless of the baggage, very capable. Use as a lightning rod as Sherman Adams was for Ike?

[35] Co-author of Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More

[36] Former trade representative for Reagan, author of Opening America’s Markets.

[37] Consider as long-term appointment with intent to promote them as a future Secretary-General of the United Nations, or to key Undersecretary General slots.