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Seeing Eye to Eye With Palin?

 
The president-elect channeled the rhetoric of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin yesterday in nominating Chicago public schools chief Arne Duncan to be his education secretary. "When faced with tough decisions, Arne doesn't blink," the president-elect said. (link)

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