Hillary Joins Hasbeens Anonymous?

Get used to it. As Barack Obama's Secretary of State, confirmed by the Senate, with her replacement duly installed in that brand new minty fresh Junior Senator from New York seat, she serves at the pleasure of her President and her career in politics is effectively over. She can be fired for insubordination on day two of her tenure, with all her bridges burned.

Not to say Hillary would consider fading away, Douglas MacArthur-style. She could probably even run against Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California — they didn't hold carpetbaggery against her in Gnu Yawk, after all — and in California, a win could, might, just maybe come with the bonus benefit of torking off the Shriver wing of the Kennedy clan. Just in case it's Ted Kennedy who's boxed her into this corner.

Who but some doofus in Cincinatti willingly surrenders POWER? Even from the U.S. Senate? It's a mighty difficult club to get into.