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PHILADELPHIA Minima's clients are struck by the radiant hue of Cappellini's Uni cabinet...
...shout-out to interest groups as well as to an influential former rival who loves making impassioned statements about poverty. There's no reason to expect this new slot on an org chart to do any more to win the war on poverty than the creation of a cabinet-level drug czar 20 years ago did to win the war on drugs. Hillary suggested it would enhance accountability by making one person responsible for ending poverty: "No more excuses!" But it would actually reduce accountability, encouraging the secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Agriculture...
...anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an impassioned statement in a Memphis speech, pledging to create a cabinet-level poverty czar who will be "solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America." Soon after, John Edwards made an impassioned statement about her impassioned statement, just as she had hoped: "America's need to address the great moral issue of poverty demands strong action, and a cabinet-level poverty position is exactly that kind of action...
...Which, of course, they already do. So with that in mind, here's an alternative proposal for a presidential candidate who really wants to use bureaucratic change to help address social problems: Don't even think about expanding the Cabinet - shrink...
...George Washington had just a five-man Cabinet, including giants like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. George W. Bush has 21 Cabinet aides, including nobodies like James Peake, Samuel Bodman and Mary Peters; if you knew they were, respectively, the secretaries of veterans affairs, energy and transportation, you've spent too much time in Washington. This diminished stature is no coincidence, since most modern Cabinet aides - especially in the ultra-centralized Bush administration - have relatively unimportant jobs. John Walters and Elaine Chao have served in the Cabinet ever since Bush moved into the White House more than seven years...