This post is largely speculative, and it is meant to invite intelligent (or, of course, sarcastic) comments. Caveat: I'm a native of Illinois and more informed on its politics, and am largely ignorant Arizona's mechanisms, policies and personnel, aside from knowing, obviously, that the sky's the limit for Janet Napolitano.
As a side point, perhaps, what are the implications of Obama's Cabinet picks, as much of the shortlist (by the chattering class, at least)comes out of the Senate? Could that be perhaps an argument for conscripting, in a spirit of "bipartisanship," two or three GOP senators into the cabinet? (NOTE: I tried to come up with a few possibilities--getting rid of a yahoo like Tom Coburn, for instance, as Secretary of the Interior or something like that, but found deal-breaker after deal-breaker. Anyone who believes that CAFE standards will be bad for the environment, and that life begins when a man and a woman first meet eyes, can do more harm than good).
But my main point: Rahm Emmanuel has played so nice. He is poised to get flooded with DNC money, and for good reason.
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