Given the crap that is Obama's cabinet, that is probably the BEST we can hope for. (I am not actually being serious about Gupta for HHS... I am merely pointing out that given the continual disappointment with Obama's picks, I would not be surprised!)
Let's review...
1 Republican heading Transportation.
1 Republican heading Defense.
1 Republican heading Commerce.
1 hawk heading State.
1 wheres-the-beef idiot at Interior (Indeed.)
1 industry-tied EPA administrator.
And on and on.
We can sit and "wait" and trust Obama, or assume that Obama is playing some brilliant chess game and everything is going to fold in his favor, OR we can hold their damn feet to the fire and demand that Obama keep to his promise of ground-breaking "change".
This shit reminds me more and more of Obama's FISA backpedal, and his lame assertion that no longer can Bush illegally wiretap (yeah, because you made it legal).
Look, even a floating piece of wood in the middle of the Atlantic would be better than Bush. That's a pretty darn low hurdle to jump. But Obama's gotta do much, much better than this. These Cabinet choices are atrocious.
Let's be heard on this last, final one... come on!