Peyote Bill is my new boss, apparently. (Woohoo!) Going to Commerce.
NY Fed President Tim Geithner apparently heads to Treasury. Mediocre pick, but, even though I don't share the netroots' hatred of Summers, Geithner is probably the superior of the two. And he doesn't come with Summers's Biden-esque foot-in-mouth disease. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Would Hillary Bring Her Old-Guard Foreign Policy Advisers To State Department? (By Greg Sargent)
Among the Hillary people you can imagine going with her to the State Department are old-guard types such as Richard Holbrooke, Jamie Rubin, and Michael O'Hanlon. While some of Obama's foreign policy advisers had served under Bill Clinton, Obama had plenty of fresher faces, such as Samantha Power, who during the campaign strongly condemned the Hillary "conventional wisdom" foreign policy mindset that might dominate should she be elected president.
Don't know a lot about Holbrooke, but O'Hanlon and the other foreign-policy goofballs at Brookings need to be smacked across the face with a tire-iron before they're allowed anywhere near State.
I suspect Greg is just wondering aloud, but it's something to think about. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
