From: psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: THE CLINTON CABINET
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:07:17 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Dec14.210934.13719@cs.wisc.edu> michaell@snake28.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Lee) writes:
>
>First of all, I take insult to being called a "pathetic fool".  So far, I have
>seen no appointments that have been of people unqualified for the position.
>Clinton has appointed people with a decent variety of positions - but still
>able to work with, not against, the Clinton administrations goals.

Oh really "no appointments that have been of people unqualified"?  Let's
start with Donna Shalala, a women who's entire adult life has been in academia
and has no experience what-so-ever, with health care issues or insurance and/or
medical cost control issues.  She, none the less, finds herself appointed the
task of setting the nations health care policy and overseeing the establishment
of Bill's promised national health insurance program.  Read USA Today's 
(yesterday's issue) evaluation on these picks to date and take note of 
her role in the Clinton campaign "ties to Hillary".  Her friendship with
Hillary is the only reason anyone can come up with for her appointment.

Then we can finish with Robert Riech.  Another life long bookworm with no
real world experience whose area of "expertise" isn't even in economics
and so unorthodox (to say the least) that he can't even get tenure at Harvard.
But of course lacking any hands-on experience with labor issues he's the
new secratary of labor. 

The truth is that only Leon Panetta and Carol Browner have any qualifications
for the jobs they've been appointed to.  Forget Bensten's political leanings
and tell me what qualifies him to be in control of the nations's money supply,
his abiltity to spend tax dollars as a career politicians?  I think not.

>
>And honest days work?  I'm a student here at UW-Madison, and so I know DHHS
>designate Donna Shalala's work at a decent perspective.  While far rightists
>may accuse her as some "High priestess of political correctness",

Oh yeah, that Mort Kondrakey (sp?) is a raging right winger alright.

 she has a
>number of critics to her far left as well.  She successfully attacked a huge
>deficit in the athletic department, by some less-then-popular measures, both
>a targeted $10 that came from tuition and went towards the athletic department,
>and cutting some programs, but also recruiting two strong coaches to income
>generating sports, and while they aren't winning teams yet, attendence and
>enthusiasm is up, and the athletic department deficit is almost removed.  

Well of course, now I see why she's in charge of HEALTH and Human Services!
All that budget cutting work should come in real handy when it's time to
set national health care and insurance policy. 

>
>True, Madison is not a archly-conservative campus, by any means (thankfully),
>but Shalala has done an excellent job here as Chancellor, and clearly has spent
>many days working hard at improving our university,

I'm not even going to argue but I will say that if you believe any of this
is qualification to run a department that sets policy on broad a scope of
issues as DHHS, you're dreaming.  The entire budget of that joint she ran 
wouldn't run DHHS two days.  She hasn't been able to resolve the issues of
ONE hospital in some one horse town and she's going to set policy for the 
nations hospitals?   She may have done a great at your little school, but
this is the whole country we're talking about now and like Perot said,
running a corner shoeshine stand does not mean you can run IBM.  Can you
say - in over her head. 

But that really shouldn't suprise me, since everything I seen to date
from this new administrations can be summed up with "in over their heads".
Why, we here in the Clinton team are shocked and stunned by the reaction
to Bill's intentions to lift the ban on gays in the military.  

You're not in Arkansas any more Billy boy, Billy boy
-- 
America must've gone through quite a change the last month and a half.  Since
Clinton promised a cabinet that "would look more like America," it must be that
we've all become far left academicians or career politicians.  The ivory tower
is rebuilt, communism lives and its advocates are working for Bill Clinton! 
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