Josh Marshall is worried that the Democrats aren't attacking enough: My concern isn't so much about Night 1, it's my perception that the Obama campaign has ceded the initiative to McCain for the last four to six weeks, and that... Full story...
Justin Fox: One thing Geithner doesn't have much background in is economic policy other than financial policy (at Treasury his big job was jetting around the world fighting the emerging markets financial crises of the late 1990s).
How insufferable will Arianna get in the next few years? Maybe this insufferable: “I only text three people - my two teenage children and Barack Obama.
That's what the Times is reporting. Ackerman is afraid that Clinton will fill the State Department with loyalists: Obama loyalists wonder whether the same people who attacked Obama on foreign policy during the primaries can implement Obama’s agenda from State.
Goldberg explains why he likes Clinton at State. I do think that the Clinton appointment will utlimately come down to the Israel-Palestine question.
James Pethokoukis suggests that Obamacare could kill the GOP: Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there.
Thomas P.M. Barnett on transition hires: There is always the feeding frenzy when a new president takes office, especially if the break for the party in question is 8 years or more.
He writes: Some Republicans believe that their reputation for intolerance is costing the party the votes of the next generation of Americans.
A reader writes: While I agree with you that Brennan would be an awful choice at CIA, for both substantive and symbolic ("branding") reasons, I do see one significant ray of light appearing from this "Dark Side" guy: He wants.
Ron Paul on what he expects from the new administration: I don’t expect many good things. I do expect a lot of spending and even more debt.
But not the M-word. A key member of the religious right backs civil unions containing all the rights - federal and state - that apply to civil marriages.
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