maybe they’ll change the curtains

There is no greater evidence of President-elect Barack Obama’s determination to bring dramatic change to Washington, DC than the appointments he is making to key positions in his new administration.

For example, Obama has asked that current New York Federal Reserve Governor Timothy Geithner, who has for the last half decade been at the center of every major decision regarding our current economic crisis, to become his Secretary of the Treasury where he will be at the center of every major decision regarding our current economic crisis.

And on the national security front, he has named Robert Gates, currently serving as Secretary of Defense, to serve as his Secretary of Defense.

Other potential upheavals include Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General, tapped to become Attorney General, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers named to take on the post of chief economic advisor.

“Whoa,” you are probably saying to yourself, “Is it really wise to create so much disruption in the midst of numerous worldwide crises?”

Well, as they say, “elections have consequences” and if it’s change the American people want, it’s change they are going to get, even if it looks a lot like what you’d get using union seniority rules.

In fact, we have it on good authority that the following moves are also on the way:

Laura Bush will be asked to stay on as First Lady, at least for an interim period, due (according to a draft of his prepared remarks) to her “fine work and tireless dedication in the position and her willingness to work with me to make the changes we need here in Washington.”

Hillary Clinton will be brought into the cabinet to continue the important task of undermining the new President just as she had throughout the long primary and general election campaigns.  “The president-elect believes she will be much more effective in disrupting his administration from within,” noted one transition team insider, “And he looks forward to fending off well-timed leaks intended to embarrass him.”

Dick Cheney will not be staying on due to Constitutional technicalities.

Should a vacancy open up as expected, Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee will be retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “who will bring new vision and a unique perspective to the bench.”

Making good on his promise to push for a playoff system for college football and get rid of the BCS system currently run by the commissioners of the 11 NCAA Division 1-A conferences and bowl committees, Barack Obama will appoint a special commission to look into the matter made up of the commissioners of the 11 NCAA Division 1-A conferences and the bowl committees. “Only in this manner,” he is expected to say, “can we be sure we get the kind of innovative thinking you can only get when you turn to the very same people who have always been there.”

J.