Consolation Prize
Mary Ann Akers writes for The Washington Post about John Kerry’s classy response to being passed over for Secretary of State. Then she says:
Instead of traveling the globe and crafting U.S. foreign policy, Kerry will get the consolation prize of serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has jurisdiction over confirming Clinton and the rest of the national security team.
Kerry does have jurisdiction over Clinton’s nomination. But Robert Gates doesn’t need confirmation (he’s already in office) and if he did need it Carl Levin’s committee would have jurisdiction. James Jones doesn’t need confirmation either. And Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano will need to be confirmed by their own committees. Foreign Relations will confirm Rice, Clinton, and Clinton’s top subordinates — but that’s it.
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December 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Well…I would have preferred Kerry for SoS (and, you know, for president) but yes, Chairman of FRC is a sweet gig indeed.
And of course he’s classy.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
But I guarantee you that every time there’s the slightest dispute between Kerry (and his committee) and Hillary, the morons in the Washington press corps will be asking whether it has to do with Kerry getting revenge for being “passed over,” etc. (If you think I exaggerate, just look at the attempts at today’s presser to resuscitate the Obama-v-HRC plot line.)
December 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
With Ted Kennedy’s health in question, I don’t think it would have been fair to Massachusetts to pull Kerry out of the senate.
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