Ron Klain
Roll Call reports that Joe Biden has asked brainy, all-around Washington insider Ron Klain to be his chief of staff--a move that would have Klain in the same White House role that he played for former Vice President Al Gore. Klain's ties to Biden, however, go back in even further. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Klain worked for Biden as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Klain also did stints chief of staff to Tom Daschle in the Senate, and Janet Reno at the Justice Department.)
So will Kevin Spacey play Klain in the next movie, too? And more importantly in my household, will he still have time to coach our sixth-grade rec league basketball team?
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No, no he won't.
Also.
Stevens (R) 125,016
Begich (D) 125,019 -
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I got a fever. And the only thing that is going to make me feel better is some more Sarah Palin on my teeeveee.
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gysgt, I am almost longing for a missing white woman at this point. Or a shark, or something else to distract Wolf Blitzer.
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Well tri, I'm going to get right in there witcha. You betcha.
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What if a shark attacked Sarah Palin, and she went missing afterwards?
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As a matter of fact doggone it. I'm going to plow right through the door. If god doesn't make me miss it.
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Okay. Let's have a just a tad respect for the sharks. Sarah is our problem.
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Did I enter an alternative universe where the essence of Sarah has infiltrated everyone's closed circulatory system?
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Well Dee. Cable tv has informed us that this is all that matters. Cable tv never lies to us either.
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Ambinder has a post about the topic at hand, noting that Obama is going very insidery with his picks. He wants to do radical change with conventional people under the theory that staffing the white house with a bunch of George Snufflefulguses isn't going to get the results he wants. -
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Mmm, Begich has a mandate.
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will he still have time to coach our sixth-grade rec league basketball team?
No worries. He will be reporting to the Vice President. I understand its such an easy job that its neitrher executive OR legislative!
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I thought the VP job was floor wax and a dessert topping.
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Okay my work here is done carry on..
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And more importantly in my household, will he still have time to coach our sixth-grade rec league basketball team?
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See! See!
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The only upside I see to 'All Sarah All the Time' TV is that it's a constant reminder to Lieberman that McCain chose her instead of him. Makes me feel all toasty.
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KT here--
Yes, it's all about the village, and we only believe this "country first" thing so be taken so far. Ron refuses to confirm or deny the reports, but says in an email that he had already arranged for someone else to coach the team (which he has done for several years), as he believes the kids are beyond his own knowledge of the game. However, he says he will continue to manage the team. He's clearly thinking of himself as "chief of staff" for the Cougars.
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[...] of these we sort of knew: Ron Klain will become Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff and Valerie Jarrett, longtime friend [...]
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