President Obama nominates three new cabinet members

[struggle4progress]

Obama urged Senate to 'act quickly' to confirm new EPA, Department of Energy and budget office nominees
Tom McCarthy in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 March 2013 12.51 EST

... At least one of the nominees, Gina McCarthy, the president's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, could face a tough road to confirmation. McCarthy would be charged with enforcing regulations on factory emissions, a role that could put her at odds with free-market Republicans and Democrats from coal states ...

Obama also named Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist at MIT, to head the Department of Energy; and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Walmart Foundation, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Moniz was under-secretary of education under President Bill Clinton. Mathews was deputy OMB director under Clinton, when she "presided over three budget surpluses in a row", Obama said ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/04/obama-announces-new-cabinet-nominations

[LongTomH]

1. "Director of the Walmart Foundation as director of the Office of Management and Budget"

Oh, crap!!!!!

[DFW]

2. Obama's picks automatically have a difficult road getting past the party of NO

If Obama had endorsed Bonehead for another term as Speaker before the House voted on him, Cantor would be Speaker by now.

[Mass]

3. I have serious issues with Moniz, his support for fracking and his links to oil and gas companies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ernest-moniz-mit-physicist-is-to-be-nominated-as-energy-secretary/2013/03/04/e3fe68aa-808c-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html