Hillary in Dependency

It doesn't look good for Hillary. Was it a bad decision to give in so easily? This is her reward for unity?



http://thehill.com/dick-morris/hillarys-incredible-shrinking-role-2009-02-09.html


Hillary’s incredible, shrinking role
By Dick Morris 02/09/09 06:23 PM [ET]


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is finding that her job description is dissolving under her feet, leaving her with only a vestige of the power she must have thought she acquired when she signed on to be President Obama’s chief Cabinet officer.


Since her designation:
out foreign policy as his turf. His visit to Afghanistan, right before the Inauguration, could not but send a signal to Hillary that he would conduct foreign policy in the new administration, leaving Hillary in the role of backup.


• Richard Holbrooke, the former Balkan negotiator and U.N. ambassador, has been named special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He insisted on direct access to the president, a privilege he was denied during much of the Clinton years.
• Former Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), negotiator of the Irish Peace Accords, was appointed to be the administration’s point man on Arab-Israeli negotiations.