 2004 Presidential Transition
Here's an article discussing possible changes in the President's cabinet from AP via the Rocky Mountain News [November 5, 2004, "Cabinet changes likely in Bush's 2nd term"]. John Ashcroft will probably be the first to go. Coyote Gulch would have fired him the day after the DOJ announced their cavein to Microsoft. 
Update: Blogs for Bush: "President Bush won Iowa on Friday, finishing the 2004 campaign with wins in all three of the states that were still up in the air on election night."
Update: Daily Kos: "How did the pollsters fare?"
Update: Taegan Goddard: "John Ellis, President Bush's cousin, has some very sound analysis of why the Kerry campaign fell short."
Update: Robert Cringely: "Welcome to the New Morality."
Update: Josh Marshall: "But this is what I fear will be a growing pattern in this second term: an effort to use a narrowly secured majority not only to govern, even govern aggressively, but to make institutional changes that strip away the existing powers and rights of large minorities. These formal and informal checks and balances constitute the governmental soft-tissue that allows our political system to function. An earlier example of this was the DeLay double-dip redistricting from last year. I believe we'll see much more. And it's a pattern that everyone should be watching closely."
Update: Andrew Sullivan: "EMAIL OF THE DAY: "You are wrong. Gays were NOT the issue. I'm a born again Christian, (raised Baptist, then Pentecostal!) Morals were my deciding factor also. Not anything to do with "gay" I live next door to San Francisco and have gay family and dear friends since 1976. BEFORE it was cool. BEFORE it accepted like it is today, I have had 4 friends die of AIDS.
The morals I cared about? A president who meant what he said. A man who is faithful to his wife. A man who doesn't pander to Hollywood. A man who is not ashamed to say he prays and give credit to a higher power, who helps him. A man who doesn't try to please all the people all the time. A man who shares my deeply held belief about freedom and what a GREAT country America is, and someone who knew Saddam Hussein has murdered 400,000 innocent men, women and children. I did not care if there were weapons of mass destruction, Saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction. We are better off today, with this man gone from power, who can argue that? Who are these people that say we should have not gone in there, I thought we should of done this YEARS ago.' I hope this emailer is representative (although I fear she is not of many in the organized religious right). I agree with much of it. And I'm sick and tired of having the notion of homosexuality being disassociated from 'moral values.' Homosexuality, like heterosexuality, is morally neutral. And the fight for gay marriage is about celebrating the difficult moral tasks of fidelity and love and commitment and responsibility. I wish we gays could find common cause with more Christians in exactly this kind of endeavor. And I know that many of us have. But the fear of both sides has caused this great and painful rift. I pray that enough people of good will can overcome their fear and help to heal it."
TalkLeft: "New Report: Youth voters turned out in record numbers."
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