I agree with you regarding Condi. The State Department is full of sympathetic cookie-pushers and Clintinistas!
Bolton would be perfect as SoS as he surely will clean up the Department. It is no secret that he is a mean SOB that doesn't like to be crossed! He will force-feed Bush's policy and make it stick
Condi should be promoted back up to National Security Adviser! She has gained much from dealing with the foreign countries.
Condi should be promoted back up to National Security Adviser! I hope she can be promoted to VP in 2008.
As far as cleaning State Dept, it's not easy when you deal with entrenched career (they don't call it that for nothing!) government employees, which most of them are except few political appointees at the top.
We know what happened with trying to clean up CIA, it ain't pretty or easy, and certainly cannot be done in just a couple of years. State, if anything, is even more "stacked". We need several administrations just to make a serious dent.