Posted on 11/21/2008 2:01:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Network's Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd reporting Obama will name his economic team Monday.
1:55pm UPDATE: The New York Times is reporting that Sen. Hillary Clinton has decided to quit her Senate seat and accept the post of Secretary of State, according to two Clinton confidants.
Senior advisers to President-elect Barack Obama told the Times this morning that the offer had not been formally accepted and no announcement would be made until after Thanksgiving, but said they were convinced the deal was ready to be sealed.
NBC News is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama will roll out his economic team on Monday and will personally announce that N.Y. Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner will replace Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be his new Secretary of Commerce.
Obama reportedly will hold a question-and-answer session at the announcement Monday in an effort to reassure markets, NBC's Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell reported minutes ago.
Jake Tapper on the ABC News blog "Political Punch" reported a short time ago that Richardson was a leading candidate for the Commerce post, saying the news that Richardson had emerged as a serious contender for Commerce was first broken by Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post.
We beg to differ. The Albuquerque Journal's Washington correspondent Michael Coleman gave us the first inkling that Richardson was being considered as Commerce Secretary about the same time Cillizza did on Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Vidals book Lincoln is pretty good about showing that, Kerns book is more academic about each one and not as much show of the infighting or at least not as "dramatic" as only Vidal can be.
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Yes. Geithner. Another self-serving weakling here to save America.
Who is next in line to become Governor of New Mexico?
Gee, I wonder why? snicker, snicker.
Which of his girlfriends will go to Washington with him?
Why? Every president-elect has done this.
I think you mentioned it the other day, 2ndDivisionVet, that this is like watching a clown car at a circus where dozens of clowns pile out.
The nobama administration is looking like a reunion of Clinton criminals. I’m just curioius what Clinton’s end game is. Whatever it is, Hussein won’t benefit.
Kerns is useless, I think she just writes books to please the establishment, and not actually provide historical insight.
Yeah, at a slower pace.
We need a position for Monica.....kneeling?
Never before in our history has such an unaccomplished, inexperienced man walked into a set of circumstances like these, and he knows it as well as we do. He needs to hit the ground running fast.
Obama displaying shaky confidence.
Ugh
Keep cannibalizing those popular Democratic governors so we can have a chance at beating their replacements in the next elections.
Don’t you love it. We can’t have McCain because that would mean a third Bush term.
But we can have all these recycled losers from bubbaland.
-PJ
Looks like the new president will operate out of the state department.
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