Most Badass Cabinet Member everFollow

To celebrate the upcoming Obama administration, I asked you, who is your pick for most badass cabinet member ever?

Is it Janet Reno and her guns-a-blazing, take no prisoner attitudes in Waco and with Elias Gonzalez? Is it Henry Kissinger and his Barbara Walters loving brand of banality and evil? Or is it the multiheaded serpent of the Bush neoconservative cabinet, headed by Cheney who reminds me of the emperor from Star Wars?

I go for someone wacky. Remember Alexander Haig? Despite the fact that the order of succession is clearly laid out, Haig said, ***** it and took over the presidency after Reagan was shot.



That was awesomely insane. That was one of my favorite political moments ever just b/c it was so ****** up. Haig would have really enjoyed Dubya's administration so much more than his own, though it is also funny to think of it in connection to Phil Hartman's hilarious SNL sketch about what it was like if we lived in a world of a competent and intelligent Ronald Reagan.

If we consider the Vice President as a cabinet member, then I'd have to say Cheney wins hands down. Bad ticker and all, he pulled some serious strings. Somewhere Rasputin is smiling.

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Is there a section of our government that man isn't part of?

I get what you're driving at, but I guess I've always looked at the office of veep more as the spouse in a political marriage while the rest of the administration are the cooks, maids, butlers, etc.

The veep is a different animal from the rest of 'em.

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It's a hard choice, but I like this quote from the linked article:

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(and I'm looking at you, Red)

In the 70's there was a huge French backlash about the adoption of english pharses by teh frawgies... Le Weekend, Les Blue Jeans, les movies etc etc.

Now when I read Le Figaro and Le Monde I see a startling number of what I can only call anglo-neologisms.

In recent days I've seen:
Le Credit Crunch
Le Binge Drinking
L'American Way of Life (I kid you not)

And this week "La probleme Americaine des Big Three"

FFS!

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The South Park depiction of Reno was nails.

She gets my vote.

Now when I read Le Figaro and Le Monde I see a startling number of what I can only call anglo-neologisms.

Bizarrely, I was just thinking the same thing when I was reading Le Monde online. (Because the US coverage of the Parti Socialiste leadership struggle apparently doesn't sell much beer, not just to be a pretentious ****.)

It's a disgrace. To be perfectly honest, I'm slightly ashamed to call myself a French socialist theses days. For a long time in France we had "La Droite la plus conne du monde", but it seems that the socialists are fighting hard to appropriate that title.

I'm not enthused with either movement inside the party. The hard left is not very realistic, and the soft left has completely run out of ideas. They can't reconcile themselves ideologically, one half of the party being stuck in the 70s, and the other in the 90s. I do quite like the gay guy, though, but apparently France is not ready for a gay President. Strauss-Khan is ok too, but he won't quit his job for the leadership of such a divided party.

So we're fucked for a little while longer. At least until Sarko starts trying to reform France properly. Then the socialists will have something to unite themselves around.

Forget the badass cabinet members, anybody ever read an autobiography on OLD HICKORY?

Now there was a bad MotherFucker.

They asked me, but I had to turn them down because of party affiliation and the fact that they weren't hardcore enough to run with my crew.