Nuke's

Outstanding choice. I mean it. This is wonderful news.

Please, oh please fellow bloggers in the Right-o-sphere, go easy on this.

Hear me out.

Preznit Obama can choose whomever he wants in his Cabinet.

Hold your fire until the confirmation hearings, then embarrass the heck out of Goreleck, Obama, and the whole sordid crowd.

Sharpen your rhetoric. Play the game. And this time, play to win.

Here is an outline of Jamie’s questionables:

Carries as baggage: Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from the Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her and said critics were distorting her record. The criticism grew so heated that the F.B.I. investigated a death threat against her family, and President Bush had to intervene personally to stop the Justice Department from releasing sealed reports involving her. Some conservative bloggers have already begun trying to derail Ms. Gorelick’s possible nomination as attorney general, pointing to her experiences at both Fannie Mae and the Sept. 11 commission.

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