Here's how I think the next moves play out:
White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Emmanuel (the inspiration for Josh Lyman!)
Treasury Secretary: Paul Volcker
Defence Secretary (short term): Robert Gates
Secretary of State: Richard Lugar
Deputy Defence Secretary: Robert Danzig (Defence Secretary later)
National Security Advisor: Susan Rice
Secretary of Education: Colin Powell
Attorney General: Eric Holder
Health & Human Services: Tom Daschle
In the Senate, Lieberman should be stripped of his committee seniority and may well leave the Democratic caucus. If Coleman holds on in MN I think I may well breathe a sigh of relief as the RNC won't be able to raise $4mn off every fundraising e-mail. As for Alaska, come off it. A convicted felon as a Senator? Even for 5 mins before he resigns? For heavens sake.
Oh, and I am still holding out hope for NE-2.
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I'm very opposed to the idea of Lugar at State. I'm fed up in general, in fact, with the idea that we need Republicans to handle the foreign policy positions in a Democratic Administration. Republicans would never and have never done the reverse. There are good Democrats to fill these positions.
And let me throw out a couple of other possibiliites.
EPA - RFK Jr.
Transportation - Earl Blumenauer
Comment 1: a pint to JE next time I see him for (seemingly) calling every state correctly.
Comment 2: as boingboing.net says, I dream of Bruce Schneier for DHS.
That is all.
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