Salon.com > Goldwater http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 11 dream Cabinet picks the GOP would still oppose http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/11_dream_cabinet_picks_the_gop_would_still_oppose/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/11_dream_cabinet_picks_the_gop_would_still_oppose/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13171626 The twin spectacles of Republican lawmakers opposing one of their own for defense secretary and the conservative media slamming that nominee, Chuck Hagel, as a leftist, raises a thought-provoking question: What Obama nominee wouldn't the GOP oppose?

To get at the extremism that is exposed by such a question, let's broaden the scope of possible nominees. Imagine that, in the basement of the White House, President Obama had a machine that could let him travel to any time or dimension to recruit for his top positions in his administration. Then ask yourself: Would Republicans still oppose those all-star picks, even icons of their own party? The answers seem pretty clear:

 


11. Abraham Lincoln, R-Ill.

Billed as the founder of the modern Republican Party and yet also the political hero of Democratic President Obama, Lincoln seems at first glance to be a perfect consensus pick for any number of Cabinet slots in the Obama White House -- especially because he would get a boost from the Beltway's all-powerful neoconservative think tanks that admire his record of suspending habeas corpus for accused enemies of the state.

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