What happened to the republican mantra "the president deserves his choice"? I remember that being said about the last 2 SCOTUS appointments which are lifetime appointments!

Is there any Cabinet Secretary that has as much to fix as him?

No, there will be no torture prosecutions. In fact, the rendition (formerly known as kidnaping) of "terror suspects" will continue---snatching people, stripping them, shackling them (in diapers), flying them to distant countries and handing them into the custody of secret prisons run by governments which our CIA confidently asserts will be "less likely rather than more likely" to torture these hapless individuals.

Whether Obama is President or Holder is Atty Genl, the secret government is not impressed. We live in a police state---a "national security state" ---and the elections and inaugurations and pretensions of Congressional deliberation are all a fraud and a charade. If President Obama did seriously try to restore the rule of law, did seriously attempt to hold the past admininistration's more conspicuous criminals to account for their crimes, how long do you think he would last? The CIA and other spy agencies have overgrown the constitutional government, and the field which they will let Mr. Obama play in is severely circumscribed.

Think this is exaggerated, or paranoid? Think again--if you had been in St. Paul during the Crime Families Convention in September, you'd have seen the totalitarian reality when the facade was discarded for one Orwellian week.

Remember this a couple of years from now--"change you can believe in"---ha ha ha. There will be no torture prosecutions, no illegal wiretap prosecutions, no perjury prosecutions, no rescinding of "signing statements," no accountability for DoJ politicization, no action to curb black-box vote-rigging, no contempt of Congress prosecutions:

Power corrupts.