Heeere's your 'Best basketball-playing Cabinet in historeee!'

[RamboLiberal]

With the addition of 6-foot, 5-inch Chicago schools superintendent Arne Duncan to his projected Cabinet as Education secretary, Obama is loading up his administration with hoopsters. Among them:

• The president-elect himself, of course, who was on the state championship team while at Punahou (High) School in Hawaii. He's still a frequent player -- it's a tradition for him to play with friends on Election Day -- and famously sank a three-pointer while visiting U.S. troops in Kuwait this summer. Put him in at small forward.

• Duncan has been playing in pick-up games with Obama for more than 10 years. The schools chief, Obama said today, has a "much better" jump shot than he does. Sounds like a power forward. (For the record, Obama joked this morning that Duncan's talent on the court had nothing to do with his selection as Education secretary.)

• Retired general Jim Jones, slated to be the president's National Security adviser, is 6-foot 4-inches tall and played forward at Georgetown University in the early 60s. No offense, general, but age can take away a step or two. Move him from forward to center. (And perhaps sign up 6-foot 8-inch Paul Volcker, one of Obama's economic advisers, to come off the bench for a few minutes to rest Jones. Volcker is 81 years old, but he's still got height and he knows how to shut things down -- like over-heated economies, for example.)

• Susan Rice, picked by Obama to be ambassador to the United Nations, was a star point guard at the National Cathedral School in Washington. She should keep that position. Ambassadors know how to move the ball around.

• Eric Holder, down to be Attorney General, played for Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and the freshman team at Columbia University. Give him the other guard slot. And an AG should be good on defense.

• Tim Geithner, slated to be Treasury secretary, "hates to miss a pickup basketball game," according to the Associated Press. That shows spunk. He can be the "sixth man."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/12/whos-who-on-the.html

[qwlauren35]

1. Two questions: who will play against them, and what's the venue?

Ya gotta admit, basketball's a good way to bond.

This last pick (Sec'y of Education) is bugging the crap out of me, but I'm trying to let go of politics in general, or at least focus on what matters most to me - and it's not education.

I'm still waiting to see the Surgeon General. I think that's my biggest issue. I want Joycelyn Elders back.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. "I want Joycelyn Elders back." That would be awesome! n/t

[RamboLiberal]

3. Be fun to draft a group of Repubs and let them go at it

New way to settle a filibuster?

[mwei924]

4. That'd be some ass-whooping. nt.