President-elect Barack Obama has begun his much-touted transition process. As mentioned here yesterday, there are 63 questions that a potential member of the administration must be able to answer.
Rich Galen writes in his “Mullings” for today, what the impact these questions might have on who is actually selected to serve in an Obama White House. Additionally, Galen correctly asserts that had a Republican issued such a questionnaire, howls of McCarthyism and HUAC would be all over the front pages (or at least the opinion pages – but who can tell the difference) of the New York Times.
We all knew Obama promised to change the tone in Washington…only that change is to get everyone to sing the same note: his.