Secretary of the Treasury: Steve Forbes
2nd Choice: Bill Archer
Comments: Who better to put a stake through the heart of the IRS code?

Fed Chairman: Bob McTeer of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
2nd Choice: Robert Bartley of the Wall Street Journal
Comments: Out with the Phillips Curve and limits-to-growth orthodoxy.

Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers: Arthur Laffer
2nd Choice: Walter Williams
Comments: It's the Reagan economy, stupid!

Secretary of State: Jeane Kirkpatrick
2nd Choice: Walter Wriston
Comments: Undo the damage of the Christopher-Albright years.

U.N. Ambassador: Alan Keyes
2nd Choice: Pat Buchanan
Comments: America First.

OMB Director: Ed Crane of the Cato Institute
2nd Choice: Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation
Comments: Cut, cut, cut.

Education Secretary: Ted Forstmann
2nd Choice: Joseph Lieberman
Comments: Choice, choice, choice.

Agriculture Secretary: Willie Nelson
2nd Choice: The Allman Brothers
Comments: Fund farm programs with Live Farm Aid proceeds.

Ambassador to Bosnia: Dick Darman
2nd Choice: Hillary Clinton
Comments: And don't come back!

Commerce Secretary: Ralph Nader
2nd Choice: Joan Claybrook
Comments: Finally, someone who will cut corporate welfare.

Energy Secretary: Vacant
Comments: Bush announces new energy policy: the free market.

HUD Secretary: Mick Jagger
2nd Choice: Keith Richards
Comments: Gimme Shelter.

Interior Secretary: Bud Shuster
Comments: Pave the planet.

Supreme Court: Richard Epstein
2nd Choice: Henry Hyde
Comments: Cancel out Souter's vote.

Secretary of Transportation: Richard Petty
Comments: Speed doesn't kill.

HHS Secretary: Bill Bennett
2nd Choice: Charles Murray
Comments: Tough love.

Attorney General: Bill Gates
Comments: Bust the trustbusters.

Social Security Adviser: Pat Moynihan
2nd Choice: Bob Kerrey
Comments: Opt out.

Defense Secretary: Dan Quayle
2nd Choice: Bob Dornan
Comments: Let's actually have a national-security policy.

RNC Chairman: The blind mountain climber
Comments: A kinder and gentler party.

The Bush team and I would welcome other suggestions. Please e-mail to me, as I will be handling these personnel decisions for them while they are busy trying to defend the tax plan.