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Treasury Secretary Google?

Already a winner on the business front for his support and guidance to President Obama and his reelection campaign, there is growing speculation that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is in line for an even bigger payoff: secretary of either Treasury or Commerce or a new “secretary of business” slot.

Cabinet shakeup watchers have focused on Schmidt and his Yoda status in the Obama reelection campaign, Google’s massive $1.9 million to Democrats in the election, and the administration’s efforts to quiet a potential Federal Trade Commission investigation of Google as key signs that the president wants Schmidt in the cabinet.

“Nobody’s better positioned for a Cabinet job, if he wants one,” said a Democratic strategist.

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YAY! He can also advise the Feds on best practices for spying on Americans while subverting the Constitution AND remind Americans the EPA knows best about climate science, warning deniers, “There are people who in my view criminally doubt some of the science.” Let’s hear it for multitasking!

Buy Danish on December 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM

What could be better than a top executive from a corporation that has declared a desire to have a “monopoly on information” being given a top government position?

Treasury or Commerce would be wasting his talents, though. I nominate Eric Schmidt for Secretary of Truth!

sadarj on December 5, 2012 at 8:06 PM

He could count up to the new national debt, at least

a google of dollars

ProfShadow on December 5, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Notable quotables from Eric Schmidt:

1. “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
To the Atlantic

2. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”
At a CNBC interview

3. “Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.”
To the Wall Street Journal

4. “It was a joke, it just wasn’t very good”
In The Colbert Report about his remark about identities (number 3)

5. “Streetview the cars we drive only once, you can just move, right?”
In a CNN Interview

6. “Our policy is we try things, we celebrate our failures,”
At the Techonomy conference

7. “Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever”
In The Colbert Report

8. “You can trust us with your data”
Interview in Telegraph with Shane Richmond

9. “Washington is an incumbent protection machine… The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists”
Washington Ideas Forum

10. “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
NYT Interview

11. “We are willing to get it one way or another, with or without deal.”
About Facebook data in Telegraph interview

12. “We Want People To Be More Logged Into Google.”
During Google’s third quarter earnings call

13. “We don’t have a plan to beat Apple, that’s not how we operate,”
Interview in Telegraph with Shane Richmond

14. “Computers will clearly handle the things we aren’t good at, and we will handle the things computers clearly aren’t good at,”
Venturebeat

15. “The Internet of things will augment your brain”
Venturebeat

What is your favorite?