Butt Out
We may be turning into a Soviet Republic, with centralized economic control and an ironman at the top who brooks no dissent, but we’re going to get boffo entertainment:
The idea of making Susan Rice a Cabinet-level official as UN Ambassador has already begun paying dividends, but to pundits and not President-elect Barack Obama. The AP reports that Dr. Rice wants her own transition team at the State Department as well as at the UN, angering Hillary Clinton, who has to already be a bit steamed to have an important part of the diplomatic corps outside of her control:
The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department.
As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. envoy-choice Susan Rice separately visited the diplomatic agency’s headquarters in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, persons familiar with the transition said that Rice wants to install her own transition team inside the department.
Such a move by an incoming U.N. ambassador is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the United Nations in New York, where Rice already has a small transition staff, the sources familiar with the incoming administration.
“Foggy Bottom ain’t big enough for the both of us, sister, so I suggest you remove yours.”
Can you believe I always wanted to be a sceenwriter? I mean, when you got it, you got it.
Martino said,
December 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Do I have this right? Another female Dr. Rice in the diplomatic corps of the White House? I thought eight years of this has been enough. Do we really want four more of the same?
Carol said,
December 9, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
I just want to know what these two egomaniacs are smoking. Also The One, what’s he smoking? And whoever decided the UN ambassador should be a cabinet level position should probably be institutionalized.
But really, these silly people can’t fight their empire-building impulses for even a month? And what kind of transition team does an ambassador need? Especially such a worthless one as the ambassador to the UN.
This is all proving to be so revealing, about both the ways of government and the personalities of the players. I gotta go fix some pop-corn and pop open another diet coke.