[TomGuy]

So, Ridge may be "out" as Secretary of Homeland Defense. And Card has fallen from grace. Maybe, then, Secretary of Homeland Defense Karen Hughes? She's available, trusted, disciplined, and gets things done.

If this happens, you heard it here first, and I take full credit. If it doesn't happen this way, then I never said it.

[CyberAnt]

Karen Hughes - nah! She may be organized and disciplined, but she's not tough enough.

[sinkspur]

Maybe, then, Secretary of Homeland Defense Karen Hughes? She's available, trusted, disciplined, and gets things done.

She's not available.

I have it on good authority from a friend of her husband, an attorney in Irving, Texas, that it has come down to Washington, or him.

She chose him, and she will NOT go back to Washington under any circumstances.

That doesn't mean she's not on the phone ten hours per day.