January 13, 2009 - We're not holding our breath for much drama to come out of these cabinet hearings. Since a lot of the cabinet picks are veteran senators or former senators, they're basically being vetted by their longtime friends and colleagues. Politico says...
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January 8, 2009 - Washington, D.C. -- President-elect Barack Obama announced today that President Bush will continue to work in the White House after Mr. Obama's inauguration on January 20th - Mr. Bush will take over as White House Handyman. "He'll fix various things that are in a state of disrepair...
January 6, 2009 - It's the first day of the 111th Congress and Barack Obama has gotten off to a bad start. With incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein, at least. DiFi, it seems, is pouting Obama didn't inform her ahead of time that he was going to appoint...
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December 18, 2008 - Barack Obama has announced his pick for Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan, the current head of the Chicago school system and former pro basketball player in Australia (where the ball goes down the net in the opposite direction). So far, like practically everything Obama does, the selection is rece...
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December 8, 2008 - Yesterday, P-E Obama nominated four star General (and Japanese-American) Eric Shinseki to head the Veterans Affairs Department. And down in Louisiana, disgraced Democratic Rep. William Je...
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December 8, 2008 - The fun new story this week is about liberals' and progressives' complaints that Obama isn't liberal enough, with the far left saying they feel unrepresented in his cabinet picks. Apparently, they're shocked that a democrat who ran...
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December 3, 2008 - Could Obama's message of change culminate in the mere change of Bill Richardson's facial hair? Obama has picked a cabinet that does little to suggest he will be pursuing an agenda of radical revision. In order to belie these fears Obama should state some big changes he's...
December 1, 2008 - One of the lesser-known names to come out of the announcement of Barack Obama's national security team is that of Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser who is the president-elect's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. By planning to make the post a...
November 26, 2008 - With all the talk in recent weeks about the surprising choices that President-elect Obama has made in terms of people who will probably work for him, one question has come to my mind: if Hillary, why not me? Or you? Why shouldn't we be part of the Obama...
November 26, 2008 - Barack Obama represents a lot of firsts. But now that he's filled out most of his cabinet, he also seems to represent a third -- meaning a third term for the Clintons. At this point, Obama might have hired more Clinton people than Clinton would have if she'd won...
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November 21, 2008 - It's looking more and more likely that Hillary Clinton is going to be named Secretary of State. You can tell it's going to happen by the way Sean Hannity is sweating so much his eye liner is starting to run. Obama's decision to bri...
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November 20, 2008 - The latest name to emerge from the speculation surrounding Barack Obama's cabinet appointments is that of Janet Napolitano, the Arizona governor who, sources say, has been tapped to become secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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November 19, 2008 - The Democrats are nothing if not forgiving. They've voted to allow Joe Lieberman, the errant Senator who maligned Obama while traveling McCain, back into the nest. Despite this, Lieberman's face retained that seemingly permanent disgruntled expression as if he'd just swallowed something raw that was...
November 18, 2008 - On Hardball last night, Chris Matthews' asked part-time misogynist Christopher Hitchens what he thinks of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. If you just love being totally unsurprised by political pundits, check out the clip below...
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