You knew it was coming, didn't you? After a Nigerian man tried and failed to blow up an airliner landing in Detroit, Repubicans are calling for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to resign and Congresscritter Pete Hoekstra (R, MI-2) is castigating the administration in a fundraising letter . Cue the Democrats complaining about the administration's nominnee for the head of the Transportation Security Administration being on hold due to South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, (which Harry Reid is supposedly going to force a vote on now) and GOP votes against TSA funding.

The President, so far, has stayed above the political aspects, simply stating the system had failed and ordered reviews into the terrorist watch list and airport screenings procedures.

In a new book, Tom Ridge, former director of the Department of Homeland Security, claims (among other things) that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft pressured him to raise the national security-threat level on the eve of the 2004 presidential election for political purposes. Publisher summary, Washington Post.

A new administration in the US means a whole new cast of cast of characters on the stage. Follow along as we track who's rumored to be going where and who lands the final positions in the Obama Administration.    Continues...

I knew I couldn't be the only one who'd thought of it. Salon on John McCain's future.