Congressional Quarterly has a helpful chart tracking the progress of President Obama’s cabinet nominees. All of the committee hearings have taken place, except for the yet to be nominated Commerce Secretary. Only one committee has voted the nominee out of committee to the floor of the Senate for a full confirmation vote: Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.
Here is a link to openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson’s invocation at yesterday’s “We are One” concert on the Mall in Washington. The invocation was not shown on HBO’s broadcast, to the chagrin of many who viewed Robinson’s invocation as a counterbalance to anti-gay preacher Rick Warren’s inaugural invocation.
The Baby Boom Generation has ruled America for 16 years. And now they are saying goodbye to power, yielding the way to Generation Jones and Generation X. I personally believe a part of the bitterness that was seen in the Clinton v. Obama primary contest was the bitterness of some Boomers in losing that governing power, especially considering that Hillary is a boomer and many of her most ardent supporters were Boomer women the same age as Hillary, like my mother and aunt.