Via Reuters:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 in favor of the appointment, clearing a key hurdle to her appointment as the top U.S. diplomat.
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Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican who this week questioned Clinton about her husband’s raising of foreign funds for his charity, was the sole negative vote.
Vitter, Vitter… Where have I heard that name before?
Now then, I’m not saying that patronizing a prostitute (and I won’t even mention the diaper rumor – whoops, looks like I just did) and getting caught up in a scandal involving said …

The election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the appointments following have left some Senate seats open. And there are still Senate races left to be decided. Politics- it’s fluid. 
A brief rundown on the seat shifting: 
Hillary Clinton’s Seat
Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t want the spot . Governor David Paterson has taken himself out of contention, as has Robert F. Kennedy Jr (who was rumored to be under consideration for the EPA spot) and Rep. Nita Lowey.  A long list of names are being floated around as a potential replacement- including Andrew …

There’s one particular passage circulating the blogs from the New York Times’ article about Obama’s newly announced (but already known) national security team (emphasis added):
Yet all three of his choices — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the rival turned secretary of state; Gen. James L. Jones, the former NATO commander, as national security adviser, and Robert M. Gates, the current and future defense secretary — were selected in large part because they have embraced a sweeping shift of resources in the national security arena.
The shift, which would come partly out …

If you’re like me (and God help you if you are), you’ve been wondering why the Obama camp, so disciplined and tight-lipped before the election, now seems to be leakier than a sieve made of Kleenex. First there was the leak of Emanuel’s CoS appointment not only before the guy’d even made up his mind but before Obama had even won the election, then we get leaks of the contents of the Bush-Obama meeting at the White House, and now we get the leak that Hillary Clinton may be the new Secretary …

I’m avoiding the traditional media like the plague this week because they’re more interested in exploiting (and in many cases inventing) back room animosity between the Clinton and Obama camps instead of reporting on, oh, something as trivial as what is actually happening at the Convention.
Hillary Clinton gave a fantastic speech last name calling for unity in the Democratic Party to bring about a victory against McCain.

We are not covering the Democratic Convention from Denver. But even though we aren’t hanging out with Kos in an air conditioned tent/blogger command center, we might drop a line here and there about what is reported to be happening out there.
Hillary Clinton is expected to release her delegates Clinton’s meeting with her delegates early Wednesday (before their vote) presumably to thank them. And for all of those obnoxious “the voters were disenfranchised by the system I don’t understand” voices from a few months ago, Florida and Michigan’s delegates were …

The McCain campaign has reason to be nervous about the announcement of Joe Biden for vice president. Throughout this primary season, John McCain has tried to position himself as the foreign policy expert, “man of the people” candidate versus Barack Obama’s less experienced, “elitist” candidate. McCain has proved time and time again that he’s extremely weak in foreign policy (and likely to get us into a war with Russia). And his “how many houses do I own?” gaffe of last weak punched some holes into his “man of the people” …

Nate at Five Thirty Eight has up some Biden related stats that are interesting. The data comes from Ramussen approval ratings that show how various vice presidential picks would’ve played with the general population, divided by political affiliation. Democrats were 77% in favor of Hillary Clinton, 65% in favor of Joe Biden. But only 17% were unfavorable of Biden while 22% were unfavorable of Clinton. I’m going to ignore the Republican data because it seems unlikely that any Democrat V.P. pick would be enough to woo them across the aisle. …