Everyone from a Chicago gossip columnist to network TV correspondents reported Saturday that President Obama had settled on Senator John F. Kerry as his next secretary of state yet was withholding a formal announcement, sparking White House denials but highlighting the challenge in any rollout.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s decision last week to drop out of contention made Kerry the consensus pick within Washington to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, but the White House is said to want to unveil an entire national security team in one announcement, and the other successors are less certain.
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Let's get together--everyone who supported Elizabeth Warren for the Senate -- and elect another Progressive. (to replace Sen. Kerry, who surely will be confirmed) MASS, of all states, ought to be represented by two Progressive Senators.
No, let us get Brown back. Someone who can work with both parties and is not in lock step with their own party. Warren is a follower, not a leader. The President needs a stop light attached to his butt so she slam into him every time he stops.