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CHAIRS!

Even if we are going to get more of the same for four more years, it will, at least, not necessarily be from the same people. Today we lost Preacher Ashcroft from Justice. Don Evans, a dubya best-friend-hack will quit his Commerce job; greasing the skids for the biz lobbies.

The thing about these changes is that we do not know if the new will be better or worse than the old. With Ashcroft, it would be hard to find worse; but I am sure that junior is up to it.

On the Demo side, there is the problem with the DNC head; anyone but Terry McAuliffe. I would like an audible head roll when he gets it. Dean or Ickes would be good; both have been mentioned. Problem is that Dean is probably too hot for the moderates. Ickes is a great talent but is very close to the Clintons. Nothing wrong with that except others might get itchy over bias toward Clinton2008

And so on. It is useful to watch the process. A nice way to detox from the election binge.

The most frought empty chairs are still filled. The Supremes. Aaaargh.