Good odds: Howard Dean for Human Health & Services

I've been saying this for months, and I think our chances are getting better:

Howard Dean will retire, as he has said he will, after one term as chairman of the DNC in January -- and be appointed to a position in the Obama cabinet. Most appropriate, of course, would be heading Human Health and Services.

The doctor will be IN AGAIN!

Still a Deaniac after all these years.

We need some Democratic attack dogs, and along with Rahm Emanuel, the doctor, the original "democratic wing of the Democratic party" governator, Howard Dean, is still, rhetorically, hell-fire and brimstone but with the old-fashioned, flinty Yankee chutzpah to back it up, just about the best we've got.