Obama National Security Team Named

President elect Obama rolled out his new national security team: (cut and paste from the Washington Independent)

• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state.
• Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, to remain in his current position.
• Eric Holder, a former federal prosecutor and deputy attorney general, as attorney general.
• Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, as secretary of homeland security.
• Gen. James L. Jones (Ret.), as national security adviser.
• Susan Rice, national security adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign, as ambassador to the United Nations.

An interesting side story on all this is that
Hillary Clinton will not resign until she is confirmed.

My guess is that notwithstanding the famous collegiality of the Senate, she figures that there is at least one Republican willing do pull the secret hold crap, either to screw with her or Bill, and she just sent a message to them that if they do, she will be in the room with them for a long time.