Virtual President Announces Coalition Cabinet

My fellow Americans, I am honored to present to you my thoughts on restructuring and down-sizing the federal government along with a proposed Coalition Cabinet. Many of these names, while stellar, are conventional. I am asking each of you to put forward any suggestions for improving how we govern ourselves. I am strongly inclined to embrace your suggestions by joining your recommended candidates with these candidates to achieve a collective balance at every level of the government, one focused on restoring American the Beautiful.

As I indicated in my first post on 28 September 2010, I believe we must have three Vice-Presidents, one for the Commonwealth who shall be the Principal Vice-President; a second for Education, Intelligence, & Research; and a third for Global Engagement (changed from National Security to break the back of the military-industrial complex and the two ubber Services with no shame).

I am proposing for your public deliberation and consent, some consolidations as shown below--indented organizations are subordinate to, and will be represented on the Cabinet by, the principal organization. I have moved the Department of Commerce to serve under the Vice President for Global Engagement.

Vice President for the Commonwealth: Dennis Kucinich
Agriculture & Water: Jim Hightower
• Water Conservation Authority: William J. Cosgrove (CA)
Health: Howard Dean
• Surgeon General: Steve McIntosh
Interior: Robert Costanza
• Energy: Herman Daly
• Environment: Gordon Durnil
Labor: Jesse Ventura
• Veteran's Affairs: Max Cleland
• No Senior Left Behind: Derek Bok
Transportation & National Design: Joan Claybook
Treasury, Felix Rohatyn
• Internal Revenue: Grover Norquist
• Federal Reserve Termination Authority: Ron Paul

Vice President for Education, Intelligence, and Research: Michael Bloomberg
Chaplain: Jim Wallis
Culture: Jello Biafra
Education: John Taylor Gatto
National Intelligence: Brent Scowcroft
• Open Source Agency: Carol Dumaine
National Research: Vint Cerf
Office of Management and Budget: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz
Patent Office: Lawrence Lessig
Strategy Center: David Abshire
Global Truth & Reconciliation Centre: Lee Kuan Yew (SG), Nelson Mandela (ZA), & Fidel Castro (CU)

Vice President for Global Engagement: Newt Gingrich
Defense: Tony Zinni
Justice: Ralph Nader
• Homeland Security: Rudi Guliani
• Computational Mathematics Authority: Stephen Wolfram (UK)
State: Gary Hart
• Ambassador to Israel: Henry Seigman
• Ambassador to the United Nations: Carol Mosley Braun
Commerce: Clyde Prestowitz
• Trade Representative: Alfred Eckes

Presidential Ambassadors & Assistants to the President (15): Average American (alter ego to the President), Tom Atlee (Collective Intelligence), John Bogle (CEO for Whole Earth Capitalism), Alex Cockburn (Inspector General of the Republic), Barbara Marx Hubbard (Collective Culture of Consciousness), David Gergen (Media Outreach), William Greider (Public Outreach), Peggy Holman (Public Outreach), Cynthia McKinney (Public Outreach), Francis Moore Lappe (Collective Culture of Consciousness), Gary Nolan (Public Outreach), Sarah Palin (Public Outreach), Jim Rough (Wisdom Councils Everywhere), Pete Schoomaker (Put the Special back into Special Forces), Al Sharpton (alter ego to the President).

Supreme Court, 1st Available Position: Ron Paul

Here's my bottom line for our future: We the People are going to restore the Republic, re-instate the Constitution, balance the budget, and create a prosperous world at peace in which every citizen has a job with dignity and a sufficiency of income to raise a family. My first priority, if you do not spontaneously demand this before 2012, will be achieve Electoral Reform and then to create a Smart Nation.

Next Tuesday: Nurturing the Commonwealth

Next Thursday: Creating a Smart Nation

 

 

 

Comments

[David Isenberg]

02:14 PM on 10/13/2010

Tony Zinni? With respect, how is he not a member in good standing of the existing MI complex?

[Robert David Steele]

09:02 PM on 10/29/2010

David, I did not see this earlier or I would have addressed it right away--and thank you for your example that attracted me to this calling. Tony Zinni is honest, intuitive, and especially gifted at multinational relationships. He also knows how stupid the UN can be and when to ignore their idiocy, the kind that allowed Rwanda's genocide to happen despite the pleas from the Canadian general on the ground that he be allowed to stop it. Tony, like other flag officers that are honest, is not rich. He has to support a family, put kids through college, and generally hold a job. His book on waging peace was excellent, and I can't think of anyone else that is both a genius and as short as the principal Vice President, Dennis Kucinich, who is going to need a tough running buddy when Newt Gingrich tries to throw his weight around. Would be very glad to have you suggest someone else, or a whole slate of someone elses. The key is that decision making is no longer Epoch A top down based on secret sources unilateral, "because we say so." It is bottom up multinational based on open sources consensual. In that context, I think I've put together, with help from others, a pretty stellar group--over to you and thanks for weighing in. Robert

[Robert David Steele]

09:16 AM on 10/13/2010

This is about WE not any single individual. We have to get beyond the us-them (especially since I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, a curse on both their houses. My integrity is strong enough to carry Palin and Gingrich as well as those Democrats that might still be subject to Zionist money, and those Zionists, like my dear friend and mentor Howard Bloom, who can control their blind external impulses and focus on our internal needs. The diversity literature is clear--even if Palin and Gingrich were deaf-mute amputees who never went to school, they have a perspective to offer. Since they have both accomplished amazing things on their own "as is," that is an energy that must be harnessed. Gandhi had a great saying about people like that, along the lines of better to keep them close and happy, than off making mischief.

[Kaviraj]

10:30 AM on 10/13/2010

Yes keep your enemies close to your chest. But don't give them too much influence. Then you will cut your nose to spite your face. Give them minor posts where they cannot do any mischief at all. If you put them in positions of power, they WILL cause mischief.

Palin's "accomplishments" are largely due to far too much media attention. It is not her who accomplished anything, other than embarrassing herself and the US. She is a media product. You need to open your eyes to that. Her book was written by someone else, and she is a quitter. Quitters never win and winners never quit.

[Nick Farr]

10:11 PM on 10/07/2010

Take all these questions with a grain of salt, coming from the end-of-the-Federal-Fiscal-Year shaker that is my professional hell at the moment.

Practical questions:

1) Can you really accomplish a massive reorg? Is a corporate VP structure like the one you propose even constitutional?

2) Why get rid of the Fed? Wouldn't putting Ron Paul in charge of the Fed send forth a massive shock wave the economy couldn't sustain?

3) How on earth do you expect all these people to work well together, let alone respect the EOP?

[Robert David Steele]

06:37 PM on 10/08/2010

Nick, it's not massive at all. In fact, it is a simplification of government, and we will use OMB, informed by education, intelligence, and research, as a control panel. Congress we handle with total transparency that basically forces the representatives to represent the public rather than cut deals with special interests. I'll be doing two detailed columns a week between now and Election day, and then will publish them all as a monograph. Eager to get more comments. These people will work well together because Harrison Owen and a few others will be assigned to be their spiritual angels, and you will be amazed at what can happen when we apply Open Space Technology along with accountability, transparency, and integrity.

[Alessandro Politi]

02:01 PM on 09/30/2010

Newt Gingrich for Global Engagement? Sarah Palin for Public Outreach? I have some doubts about these names, but never mind. More crucial is the name of the ambassador to China. Coalition government is actually a very good idea, if your electoral reform is seriously applied . The transparent publication of earmarks (in Italy they would be amendments) is really a crucial element and I would wholeheartedly support it also in my country. Your proprosals are definitely more honest, constitutional and liberty-minded thant the ten-point Tea Party platform. Thank you across the pond.

[Robert David Steele]

03:42 PM on 09/30/2010

Clever devils that we are (I am a front for a larger nonpartisan group of minds), we are embracing the devils we know--Newt Gingrich for example, As virtual President with my own integrity intact and public transparency as my lever, I have no doubt that Brother Newt will be a magnificent Vice President for Global Engagement, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, or what-have-you. The really cool thing about clarity, diversity, and integrity is that they empower EVERYONE.

So who do you like for Ambassador to China? I tried to put Colin Powell back in State, with one marching order, "keep your integrity close this time around," but I was over-ruled. Of all the times when one man's silence have castrated a Republic, his was the one that hurts me the most, followed by Shinseki letting Wolfowitz get away with his lies (granted, many based on the fact that he is completely ignorant of reality) on Capitol Hill.

Am collecting all comments as part of the dialog. Do tell others, it would be nice to show what a plain group of honest people can do that the US Government in its present form cannot do.

[Kaviraj]

08:20 PM on 10/08/2010

Robert, I can understand that holding the crooks close to view would not necessarily give them leverage to do something stupid. However, stupid is as stupid does and Palin in your cabinet is an ill-advised choice, given the loon she is.