[Palladin]

Nothing to get excited about.

This always happens in the last two years of a lame-duck President. The cabinet members drop off one by one to seek lucrative positions in academia or business.

Republican or Democrat...this is a very ordinary sequence of events.

[dfwgator]

Yes it is.

[RushCrush]

Not really, they usually drop out after the first of the year or the first term, and that turnover already happened.

It's not the normal course of events to have the SOD resign the DAY AFTER election day.