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I like the Panetta appointment for similar reasons. It's pretty obvious he's going in there as a political operative. He likely will do a lot of housecleaning, which requires no intelligence skills. He also will need organizational skills, which he has through his campaign work, and as White House Chief of Staff.
It's worth mentioning that Diane Feinstein wouldn't even be a senator if it had not been for Dan White. When he assassinated the mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, Feinstein became mayor, which catapulted her to the Senate. She's been a crappy senator, and it's about time someone real challenges her.
Jay Rockefeller, of course, is a Rockefeller. Some day someone will write a history of the connections between the Rockefeller family and the Bush criminal regime. A good place to start would be Jay Rockefeller's connection by marriage to former Illinois senator Charles Percy, and Percy's connection to, of all people, Donald Rumsfeld. There was a time when Rockefeller would have been the ideal "Democratic" candidate for president, but for some strange reason he never ran.
