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Leon Panetta to head the CIA...well, why not. After all, my thoughts were Leon Panetta to the CIA would be like Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court (after all, she did volunteer for Meals on Wheels you know, which, if she lived in New York , would immediately qualify her for Senate and Archbishop of the New York City diocese). The only difference is that Harriet Miers has actual experience for the job for which she was nominated.
The money making quote from the LA Times, other than the headline:"Leon Panetta, a former congressman and Clinton chief of staff, would give Obama a political ally at the helm of the troubled spy agency" The LAT then goes on to, well, basically, excoriate the Panetta selection. Don't get me wrong, the CIA has been in dire need of a house cleaning and fumigation from all of Jimmy Carter's and Bill Clinton's appointments. The CIA has ceased being an intelligence gathering agency that is constructed and charged to supply the President with intelligence and has become a political entity with its own agenda, the administration be damned. as much as I am loathe to say this (thermostats are heard to be clicking on in hell) I agree with the LA Times on this one.
Read the article. The LAT does a good job on the Panetta nomination.
Too bad they didn't exhibit this type of real journalism over the past year or so.
One last thought: notice the problems brewing for Obama in both houses of Congress.
once again, a newby to the Oval Office discovers he's not the only one with an ego in Foggy Bottom. The rules of engagement and adversaries change when you go from under a marble dome to a painted over/ fire rehabbed residence.

From a link at Hot Air, there is an editorial from the Wall Street Journal about the consistent inconsistencies that seemingly always favor Franken. The money making quote? "The Coleman campaign clearly misjudged the politics here..." Do ya think?!?!? I've written about the Coleman recount disaster here and here.
My friend Ed Morrissey, from Hot Air, was on the Bill Bennett Show this morning talking about the Coleman/Franken recount. After hearing the interview, I wrote to Ed expressing my thoughts:
"Ed-
Heard you on Bill Bennett this morning.

Mentioned on Rush, sought after by all the rest. And I can say “I knew him when he was just a Captain.”

I listened to your comparison of the Chambliss and Martin race with Coleman and Franken. There is/was one huge difference and that’s Dean Barkley. The third party candidate in GA only took in 3.4% of the vote. Dean took in 15.1%. There was no third candidate in the Georgia race for the run off. I’ve yet to see an analysis of the Barkley voters, but heard King and Michael do an analysis in early October that showed Dean bleeding more votes from Franken than Coleman. If you remember Ventura’s run in 1998, for every one vote he took from Coleman he took two from Skip Humphrey. My gut tells me Dean probably did about the same %’s. I believe if Dean had not run, Franken would have won outright. Had there been a Georgia style run off here, I believe Franken would have won by recapturing enough votes from Dean that he would have won.

That being said, I figure those missing 7 MM votes from the 2004 Presidential election figured into Coleman’s totals. If Coleman had been able to capture just 5,000 more votes (just over 1 vote per precinct here in MN), he’d be on the Senate floor this morning rather than meeting with his legal team for coffee. "

Just my thoughts...

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