Also: The New York Times guarandamntees Clinton at State, while Bill Richardson's thirty pieces of silver may be Commerce Secretary.

News that Tom Daschle will head HHS has encouraged advocates of health care reform. Meanwhile, John Kerry collects his SecState consolation prize: he's likely to succeed Biden as chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

My very first use of the "Barack Obama" tag was on August 30, 2007, when I wrote of some now-vanished article concerning some saber-rattling HRC comments on Iran:

Hillary Clinton, working as hard as ever to make it impossible to support the Democrats in 2008.

A few months later, in December, I was more explicit:

God save us from the Clintons.

So you can imagine how happy I am to see Hillary Clinton apparently being offered, and accepting, Secretary of State.

I see the logic of it, accept the political wisdom of it, but good lord, this is not what I had in mind.

Lots of buzz on the internet last night about rumors that Hillary Clinton might become Barack Obama's Secretary of State. I'm with Josh Marshall on this: being a senator, even a senator with comparatively low seniority, seems like a much better gig both in itself and in terms of her potentially running for president again in 2016. But maybe there's an angle we're not seeing, or maybe—maybe—she just genuinely wants the job...

Besides Howard Dean, the other "John the Baptist" figure for this landslide progressive victory is John Kerry, whose selection of Barack Obama as the DNC keynote speaker in 2004 catapulted him to national prominence. Now rumors are swirling that Kerry is "actively seeking" an appointment as Secretary of State.

How strange it is to contemplate an administration that isn't manned by moral monsters.