Eric Holder at justice is a professional pick who will shore up a demoralised department. Janet Napolitano, governor of a border state, will head homeland security and become a strong female leader in the party to keep Clinton on her toes. The key decision will be the Treasury. If the pattern we have seen persists – strong personalities deployed by a president eager to reform – Larry Summers could well have a shot.
That is the real impression of these selections. Obama has been attuned to domestic politics so far but above all he seems deadly serious about governing. The common thread is managerial competence and intellectual heft and governing experience. He senses, I think, the kind of moment that Margaret Thatcher and Reagan once sensed: a quickening of the times, a reckoning – financial, economic, military and diplomatic – that could lead to dramatic change enduring a generation.
He wants to make sure that, unlike George Bush, he has the quality of personnel he needs: people who know how to pull the levers and check under the machinery of government if they don’t seem to work. He is change enough. What he needs is a way to make the government work effectively again.
After eight years of arbitrary improvisation run out of the vice-president’s imperial office, we have the possibility of a cabinet of real individuals, able to push back internally but govern efficiently. There will doubtless be bumps on the road and grem-lins in the engine. But this newbie seems pretty serious to me.
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