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...street. A Cabinet officer may become a columnist, a commentator, a talking head. Even Henry Kissinger - in his day the greatest Cabinet-rank manipulator of columnists - now impersonates one from time to time. But it doesn't work in the other direction. Right brain, left brain, different purposes. Pat Buchanan has exhausted himself going back and forth across the line. There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician...
...Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. Bloviators are not amphibious. Imagine being governed by columnists, commentators and talk show hosts. Envision a Cabinet consisting of Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, Don Imus, Robert Novak, George Will, Tim Russert, Eleanor Clift, Peter Jennings, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, John McLaughlin, Ollie North, Mort Kondracke, Jack Germond, Bill Press, Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Springer - all shouting at once, interrupting one another, sneering, one-upping, gesticulating, rolling their eyes, looking for all the world like a classroom full of first graders waving their hands, all seized at the same time by a desperate...
Some U.S. Senate Republicans are privately miffed at their leader, Trent Lott, because Democrats are chairing the opening rounds of hearings for George W. Bush's Cabinet nominees, particularly the ones next week for the two most controversial picks, John Ashcroft and Linda Chavez. Until Jan. 20, Democrats have a majority in the 50-50-split Senate because Al Gore still has his job as vice president of the nation and president of the Senate. Gore can cast tie-breaking votes; after Jan. 20, when Bush and Dick Cheney are sworn in, Cheney presides over the Senate, giving Republicans...
Just as the winter weather opens ever-larger potholes on America's highways, the potholes along the road to the confirmation of President-elect Bush's Cabinet nominees are getting a little bigger each...
...Less than a week after the President-elect rounded out his list of Cabinet members, Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez has already withdrawn her name from consideration after facing a firestorm of questions regarding an illegal immigrant who lived in the Chavez home. And now Democrats, lobbyists and the media are warning everyone to strap on seat belts in preparation for the upcoming confirmation hearings: We could be in for a rocky ride...