Assessing Carol Browner, or "...In Due Time."

Joining the Obama Cabinet generally requires Senate confirmation, while joining the Obama-Biden Transition team of course does not. Yet both means of imposing your political will are beginning to converge.
Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner is...wait. That modifier doesn't begin to explain the scope of her power, influence, and competence while at the agency. She held the position longer than any other asdministrator, and that includes two-time leader William Ruckelshaus. And during her tenure, Browner went hand-to-hand with Gingrich and The Contract and the '94 Midterms and, well, I don't know that she won exactly. But she did emerge standing.
With that in mind, the problem here is that referring to Carol Browner as "Former EPA Administrator for not just the Clinton Administration but the entire depth and breadth of the Clinton Admninistration and the longest-serving administrator ever," well, that's long-winded even for a theoretically infinite blog. So, let's skip the litany of adjectives.
Carol Browner is the President-elect's apparent choice for the first-ever Head of the White House Energy and Environment Council. Again, I'm inclined to forgo the modifiers and simplify the position as "Climate Czar." I think there's no need to sift through the ideologies behind her successes at the EPA, since quite simply Barack Obama's climate philosophy will be hers.
And that's especially handy, since accepting the Climate Czar post means she'll be leaving her position on the Transition Team, where she presumably has some say in selecting the DOE and EPA nominees, the Environmental Council appointee, and, well, herself.
While there's nothing inherently odd or surprising about Browner's selection, indeed the move is generally receiving loud applause here in DC, I find an odd humor in the process after hearing her speak last week at a forum on "The Green Economy." Afterward, as We The Press swarmed to ask her the requisite green-eggs-and-ham questions (those we surely knew she "...would not answer in a room/would not answer on the moon..."), Browner responded to each query about the timing of the President-elect's unnamed nominees by saying simply, "In due time." Becasue of our dogged tenacity, and limited imaginations, she uttered those words three times in about a minute and a half. Now, I wonder if she did indeed know not only that she'd be named Climate Czar, Chu would get DOE, and Jackson EPS, but also the exact date when all three of them will be introduced. You know, the press concference will take place In Due Time the morning of December 16th.
Oh, and the location of the green economy forum that day? The Center for American Progress (where Carol Browner is/was a board member). The center that John Podesta birthed. You know, before he joined the Obama-Biden Transition Team.
And well before he had Carol Browner come on board, too.
Here's a link to Carol Browner's biography from her private-sector employer, The Albright Group: <http://www.thealbrightgroupllc.com/Who_We_Are.htm>