Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterIn a New Administration, Some Brand-New Jobs?
Published 11/11/2008 by Al Kamen at Wash Post Federal Page
The intense competition among Democrats for top jobs in the incoming Obama administration assumes there are a fixed number of posts worth having. But it's looking likely that some extremely choice, even consequential, positions are going to be created by the new administration.
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