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Ah, I was gonna ask about your take on the way the appointments are shaping up, but htought it was too early.

Any ideas for DoD ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 02:49:44 PM EST
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I'm not sure who's ultimately going to wind up at DoD, but the consensus seems to be that Obama's going to keep Gates on to begin the withdrawals from Iraq, and then a new secretary will be confirmed after a few months.

My money's still on Samantha Power as national security adviser, but who knows?

Richardson will fit in somewhere, too.  In fact, he may be SecState, depending on what turns out to be true and false about the Clinton thing (and it's tough to tell since the idiot Clintonistas are, of course, leaking a million things per minute).

On paper at least, like I said, I think Daschle and Holder are very good picks.  Daschle signals that they mean business on health care.  Holder signals that they mean business about rolling back the police state.  And even little Rahm made the right noises on universal health care and green energy infrastructure in front of the CEOs at the WSJ forum.

Daschle and Emanuel, more than anything, seem to point to a desire to have people who know the workings of Congress (based on their backgrounds and the statements from the campaign), which goes along with the stated intention to move hard and fast after Inauguration Day.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 04:39:26 PM EST
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