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Hillary Begins Transition Into State Department
Hillary Clinton is beginning her own transition into the Executive Branch.
Hillary is meeting with Condoleezza Rice for dinner tonight, and is also holding meetings at the State Department today.
Rice has said she won't tell Hillary what to do in her new role, but obviously some amount of consultation is needed as she passes the baton to her successor. Rice also praised the Hillary pick during her appearances yesterday on the Sunday talk shows.
So Rice deserves some credit for making this a pretty smooth and civil transition.
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My only concern about Hillary is her managerial skill - so let's hope she's getting the support not just to talk about policy, but also on the operations of running the State Department.
December 8, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poor old Condi, she's always been pretty civil. She's just terribly incompetent and worships Commander CooCoo.
December 8, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still scratching my head over that whole, "My husband...I mean, the President" incident reported on years ago.
December 8, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too, since I thought that Condi and Gwen Ifill had a relationship.
I cannot figure CooCoo and Condi out at all.
December 8, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who said my husband and I? Condi? I missed this story. What happended.
December 8, 2008 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's an old story - she slipped and said "my husband" about Bush at least 2 years ago. She just called Bush "my husband" to a reporter.
December 8, 2008 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Condi is part of Shrubby's harem - includes Laura, Karen Hughes, Harriet Miers.
I wonder if Rice is going to retire to Texas, too? Could be next season's "Big Love" on HBO!
December 8, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
But what about Gwen?
See, I don't know about that harem thing except insofar as Bush likes to have a bunch of women around him who do what he says and are there just to serve him - never mind the country. But I have thought for years that Condi doesn't date men. I really thought she is a lesbian. But god knows, I don't know.
December 8, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
LGBT?
December 8, 2008 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point.
December 8, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm glad she won't tell her what to do, she doesn't know what she is doing. Only in the Bush admin could you be the National Security Advisor during the biggest terrorist attack in our history, and then get promoted to Secretary of State. I guess it shows how successful Bush wanted diplomacy to be.
December 8, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've never gotten over her lying to Congress at the 9/11 hearings. She just looked them in the eye and lied through her teeth. She didn't have to. She could have just said those intel reports warned about the danger, but they (admin incl. her) failed to attach enough importance to them. Then they look like dummies, but that can be salvaged. No, she looked them in the eye and knowingly swore that black was white. This maneuver may be the hallmark and lasting legacy of this administration.
Color me naive, but I expect more.
December 8, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
O co-sign. That PDB should have gotten the entire administration impeached.
For reals.
December 8, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, let's hope that the "verdict of history," which Bush so longingly refers to for hope of vindication, is more honest and harsh than his worst dreams.
December 8, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cosign. Throw in the lies about the smoking gun being a mushroom cloud and all the lies leading up to the invasion of iraq and after. The woman can lie with the best of them. Absolutely disgusting.
December 8, 2008 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
On a very positive note, the indictments against the mercenaries have been unsealed and one of them pleaded "guilty."
So much for that Executive Order that purported to give the mercenaries immunity from any responsibility for their actions.
I could have told CooCoo you can't extend governmental immunity like that and you cannot limit your liability without it.
December 8, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could have told CooCoo. . .
But, see, you're operating in reality rather than trying to make your own. :-)
December 8, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is precisely the kind of accountability we have been missing. This case is tremendously important to mainstream Iraqis view our presence there.
December 8, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, throw in war crimes. I am sure that the mercenaries would rather spend their time in the clink in the US, than Iraq or face a war crimes trial in the hague. You can't give immunity for war crimes, which are a violation of international law. I hope that someday the king and his cronies are sitting in the dock in the hague. I know it's a pipe dream, but one can always hope.
December 8, 2008 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink