From NRO:

His very first appointment? Rahm Emmanuel. Modern Orthodox, spoke Hebrew in his household growing up, wife converted before marriage, volunteered as a civilian for the IDF during the 1991 Gulf War. This guy has every bit the Jewish chops of a Joe Lieberman, an Alan Dershowitz, a Debbie Wasserman Schultz. He is Jewish and pro-Israel through and through and wears it on the outside for everyone to see. I am hopeful that if, as and when Obama sends out conciliatory feelers to Fatah and even perhaps Hamas, they will get the point that they have in Obama no patsy.

I hope this is true.

Another "Credit where credit is due" moment if it should come to pass: Robert Gates may be asked to stay on as SecDef.

The Bad News: Pursuant to Political Decree 1 from the Ministry of Hope and Change: The Dems are going to try and shut down Talk Radio.

Remember the good old days when simply disagreeing with someone or even going so far as to "question their patriotism" was to crush the delicate flower that was their God-given, honorable and precious dissent?

Don't look now but the crushing of dissent is about to be codified and industrialized.

You may think this is crazy but there are a ton of people out there who believe that any political discourse..effective political discourse anyway...needs to be handled only by "the responsible", i.e. those in the political class and the "mainstream" media.

They look at the First Amendment exactly like they look at the Second Amendment in that the "right to bear arms" is not an individual right, rather it is a right due only a "well regulated militia". A militia obviously commanded by or beholden to the political class.