Stop Susan Rice For Secretary Of State To Re-Elect Scott Brown

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Ken O’Brien
A week and a half ago I posted the image on theright as one of The O’Zone’s Sunday Photo-‘Toons.
The obvious implication was that it would be ofpotentially great benefit to soon-to-be former Senator Scott Brown to have JohnKerry appointed Secretary of State because it would allow Brown to run in a specialelection for that then vacant Senate seat.
Indeed, Kerry was among two names prominentlymentioned to succeed Hillary Clinton who has announced her intention to stepdown. The other name floated was that of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.
Despite emerging evidence that Rice is PresidentObama’s preferred candidate, Republican opposition to her elevation to the posthas been increasing in vehemence, supposedly as a result of comments made byher on Sunday talk shows following the incident in Benghazi.
That rationale is as transparent as the finestBelgian lace. As the iconoclastic ladies atWonkette summarized the situation:
Egad!Horrible lying liar Susan Rice and acting CIA Director Mike Morrell met withsenators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and new amiga Kelly Ayotte, and shescurrilously admitted that what she said on TV talk shows five days after theBenghazi attacks was factually incorrect because she didn’t have all the factsat the time she said that the attack was being investigated. McCain, Graham,and Ayotte immediately told reporters that the real scandal here is that whenRice went on TV, she said a thing that turned out not to be true, simplybecause the CIA had told her that thing, and instead of simply saying “we don’tknow,” she said that they thought maybe it was one thing, but they were stilllooking into it. How dare she mislead the American people like that!
No,really, that is the actual controversy, as near as we can figure out.
In the meantime, Republican Senators opposing Rice’sappointment, ranging from John McCain to Susan Collins, have sung the praisesof John Kerry as a Secretary of State nominee.
The thesis I hinted at in that cartoon is nowbecoming mainstream conventional wisdom within the beltway as the followingremarks made last night by Rachel Maddow illustrate:



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In the meantime, should John Kerry end up asSecretary of State, speculation surrounds who Governor Deval Patrick  might name to serve in the interim capacityand thus have a leg up as the Democratic nominee. Would he name himself?Perhaps  5^th District CongressmanEd Markey? Citizens Energy CEO Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.? Or, consider this – newly minted 4^th District CongressmanJoseph Kennedy III, who took over retiring congressman Barney Frank’s seat.
Stay tuned for further adventures in politics in thenew Byzantium.