I'll add:
Worked in Foreign Affairs for Carter;
Senior Advisor to Senator Byrd (so, maybe bipartisan, since he's got that whole Klan thingie going for him, I guess; )
and, probably most damning,
A Berkeley grad.
ETA -
Oh, and:
"The President in other words has tied himself to the tracks; somewhere in the distance even he can probably hear the faint whistling of the next train; and when it comes to rescue, there's not much help in sight. As
Chris Nelson of the Washington insider newsletter the Nelson Report put it the other day, "It is not too soon to suggest that the Bush Administration is imploding on all issues at all levels. Where is the good news coming from? Gas prices at the pump are not going down. The Fed is raising interest rates. Houses, cars and the jobs they create will be curtailed."
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dail...05/05_527.html
(Sorry - it was May, not Feb.)