Happy Speculation

Maybe it's my newfound love affair with Elliot Spitzer, but for the first time yet I'm confident enough in the course of the Kerry campaign to enjoy the truly great possibilities in a Kerry administration. Most know I am no fan of Kerry, but that said, his cabinet appointments do have the possibility of making me excited. The first of course, is AG, where Spitzer looks to be an early front runner. While some (inlcuding Elliot himself) have speculated he wants to make the leap to NY governor, for a man with his ambition, national AG makes much sense and would be the obvious springboard to heights in the party. The earlier Spitzer becomes a national figure, the sooner the party can be moved into the hands of the people who make me more excited about its future than I've probably ever been: those people being Spitzer himself, Barack Obama and to a lesser extent, Jennifer Granholm. Like Obama, Spitzer is a committed left Democrat who has shown us the true "third way"-how to speak and prove to ordinary people that the issues the Dems should stand for-labor rights, civil rights, the temporing of capital and civil liberties are issues that have a tremendous postive effect on the lives of most Americans. For a variety of reasons, those who might've been Reagan supporters become left dems after hearing these guys speak or watching how they take on capitalist interest. A Spitzer led justice department would bring this tendency to the national level, and finally truly contest the business dominance of American discourse that's largely been hegemonic in the half century since the Treaty of Detroit. Other Departments, especially Labor, will become incredibly important posts, and though its too much to ask for a Dennis Kucinich, Secretary of Labor regime, a Dick Gephardt led labor dept. will be more than helpful when the growing organizing drives of the SEIU-UNITE HERE-Laborers alliance begin to build steam. Indeed, the urgency and efficacy with which these groups are organzing, could just use a neutral hand, we don't even need a helpful partner like Kucinich, just the end of Elaine Chao and the most anti-labor regime in post Depression history. Gephradt, despite his all too annoying allegiance with the conservative craft unions, will help turn the NLRB into a nominally non-fascist organization (not just rhetoric, the NLRB since Reagan has been operating in a very corporativist model). If Kerry has dependably been on the right side of history, it is in regard to the environment, and thus the EPA can expect its most effective chief ever.
I know it's too early, but in your lack of sleep the next few days, try to just imagine a world in four years where AG Sptizer has taken on industry after industry in the name of labor and consumer rights, and effectively derailed the free-market ideology ascendant since the 50s while simultaneously providing and institutional base for the party's left wing while a Gephardt labor Dept. has presided over the biggest increase in organized labor since the rise of AFSCME in the late 60s and an effective EPA will have further attacked the free-market model by demonstrating over and over that capital does not have the right to whatever it wants whenever it wants it.