Boston.com (yes, I know) is reporting that Tom Daschle is up for Health and Human Services.
Obama may not pick Kerry for SoS but Congress (ok, Harry Reid) lines up to give Kerry a consolation prize.
If Clinton accepts SoS, I'm trying to imagine what the nomination hearings might be like. (or can they just skip hearings and take it to a vote? The Senate does have to confirm Cabinet appointments, doesn't it? Or am I mixing it up with something else?).
Rasmussen polls on preferences for SoS: Clinton comes in second with 28% of responses, after Colin Powell with 33%. Pronounced split down gender lines, with women preferring Clinton. Only 4% of respondents would pick Kerry.
update: AP says Daschle has accepted HHS. AP was notoriously inaccurate during the primaries, so grain of salt until official press release from Obama's people.
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Yes. The Senate
"is responsible for confirming presidential appointments of Cabinet members, federal judges and foreign ambassadors."
Colin Powell for SoS? We all know how much the world loves the Bush administration. Did Powell already pay his debt to society and now starts off with a clean slate? I hadn't heard. Amazing.
Blech.
Powell? Whose lies to the UN capped Bush's Get His War On effort
That Powell? Who perhaps could have stopped the insanity of invading Iraq? But he was too much The Good Soldier for the Bushies to risk anything?
The Powell who stabbed Bill Clinton in the back early in Clinton's presidency (something about not agreeing with requests for better armaments for the forces in Somalia)? That Powell gets more of a nod than Hillary???
The power of the MCM to affect public opinion is not weakened all that much by their obvious support of Bush and their flogging his lies.
Sheesh.
And now it's Dashcle for HHS. Oh, progressives! What hath the MCM wrought with this election??
In endorsing Obama...
Powell has made everything A-Okay!
Furthermore, I have a bridge that I would like to sell you...
WSJ is reporting
that Daschle has accepted the offer to be Obama's HHS Secretary.
Atop HHS, Mr. Daschle is expected to play a key role in moving Mr. Obama's ambitious health care agenda through Congress. He was an early backer of Mr. Obama's during the presidential primaries and was a close adviser throughout the former Illinois senator's White House campaign.
As a veteran of Washington and of Capitol Hill, he brings knowledge about how to move legislation through Congress. He has a particular interest in health care and is co-author of a book published this year, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis."
Anyone read the book?