By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little direct knowledge of intelligence work.
Still, there can be no doubt that the pot was set all the more furiously astir with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's public disavowal of Panetta once the news br
Call us crazy, but does quasi-local congressman-turned-CIA head nominee Leon Panetta look more than a little like former Conan O'Brien and current Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg? Got a better suggestion? How about "Luis" (center) from Sesame Street? -- Joe Eskenazi
Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack
Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected
representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list
of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agenda. As it turns out, this
elite group is stacked with legislators from the Golden State. Three
Californians are on Obama's potential "White House Frenemies List," including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (No. 2
Incidentally, cap insiders describe this creation as "a turban-style hat with a self-contained bow."Barack Obama campaigned -- and won -- largely on a message of hope. And, surveying the masses present for his inauguration last week, one group of Americans has every right to feel hopeful -- hatters. Whether it was Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop's "Watch me shake everyone's hand on TV!" blood-red fedora or Aretha Franklin's jaw-dropping chapeau (which bore an uncanny resemblance to the mother
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