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The Hayden thing has gotta be someone in the intelligence community floating that. I can't see why - would that really ever happen? That would be absolutely rediculous in light of Obama's speech on the floor and forcing out Brennan.
I am worried about the "cabinet members don't count" meme going around though. I am reading Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz right now, and he describes a few episodes where Summers and Rubin and that crowd were not only wrong but comically (or chillingly) so, while also laying out just how much power the Treasury has, and even more so now with the TARP program. With Geithner making disparaging remarks about Bair, who has been a staunch ally of homeowners, I'm worried about the economic team. I hope that despite people's hope for Obama, the mantra becomes "trust but verify" not "cheerlead". That was fine in the general election maybe, but there is a wholesale shift in attitude that needs to take place now that we're through to the transition.
