You're right, Bucco. Rahm Emmanuel has a history of being pretty liberal. But his role in the new administration, while powerful, limits what he can accomplish either legislatively or administratively. He will run the President's office for sure. Everything I've read about him says he will perform that role very well, particularly knowing the "mechanisms" inside the beltway.

Byt my comments on the other cabinet choices and how they appear to be defining Obama's political leanings still have me coming down with the conclusion that this administration seems to be drifting much more to the center than critics might have supposed during the campaign.

To a degree, that might be dictated by the limitations of the huge national debt and market limits on how much we can borrow. A better test of how liberal this president might be would occur if he had the same type of economic conditions and debt load that exisited when Bush took office. Those conditions would tell us a lot more.

I'm not the only one that thinks Obama is drifting to the center. Here's an article from today's New York Times...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/us...s.html?_r=1&hp