Let me be clear: I have no evidence of this. There are no news links, no Andrea Mitchells coming forward with the scoop.
But, still and all, this is actually starting to make sense the more it's kicking around in my brain.
Follow me...
Obama is the post-partisan President Elect, Mr. "Team of Rivals" whose cabinet members he wants stamped with the "Exceptional People" seal of approval. For all that, so far the choices have been what I would term as safe. Yes, even Hillary fits into the comfort zone of a lot of folks if only because she is such a known quantity.
So, I'm sitting here at the laptop streaming Hardball, and Matthews and Buchannan bring up the fact that so far all of these very safe cabinet choices have also been pretty centrist, and that if any of the folks out there "brought" Obama it was the netroots (Buchannan actually mentions "the Daily Kos crowd" - who knew?). They actually made a pretty compelling, political case that someone, somehow has to be the cabinet pick that those of us on the left would stand up and cheer for.
And then it hits me: Treasury. If Obama is going to leave his mark anywhere, at least in the short term, it will be in remaking the US economy, and undoing the policies - both spoken and unspoken - that have created this mess we find ourselves in. He needs someone who is on the same page in "growing the economy from the bottom up". Someone who can make the economic case for universal health care. Someone whose creds cannot - and I mean, cannot - be questioned.
Well, we happen to have this Nobel Prize winning economist kicking around who shares this vision...
Now, this may all just be speculation on my part. Or fantasy. Daydreams. What have you.
But it just put a big ole smile on my face just thinking about it.
Thoughts?