Since leaving office he's been working for the Seattle-based law firm Davis Wright Tremaine on issues involving China, energy and governmental relations. He argues that global engagement is a way to improve China's human rights record and deal with piracy of intellectual property.

Got any more nits for me to pick?  /snark

Thank all the gods if he is right.  

On August 27, 1859 Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Tutusville, Pennsylvania and ushered in the Age of Oil.

he's a joke.  AG Gary King, however, would be a formidable opponent.  OTOH, King has royally pissed of the entire progressive community by trying to make non-profits disclose their donors using a "quacks like a duck" argument.  Bad move, Gary.

I expect Diane Denish to be our next Governor.  We're just going to have to work harder to get her there is all.

is perpetrating this nonsense.  the man has been registered in NM since the late '80s.  Yet he has never voted here, at least not before the 2008 general election.  Non-voting would-be politicians invariably lose.  More to the point, we have an excellent Lt. Gov., Diane Denish, who is certainly running.  State AG Gary King, the son of legendary former Gov. Bruce King, is rumored to be considering a run for Governor, too.  These two heavyweights will eat Kilmer for breakfast.

IMHO, Kilmer is a politically ignorant asshat trying to get headlines to shore up his waning acting career.

eventually.  I guess (not like Nate Silver's projections) Franken's chances just went from just under even odds to 2-1.  This will go to court, but the canvassing board's decision creates legal momentum.  It's a good decision in the public interest.

Any hope of a more favorable redistrict in 2012?  Defense in a mid-term can be a challenge, too.

on the subject of contested Senate seats at http://www.congressmatters.com/ Here's the salient part:

The second-to-last disputed Senate election was Kentucky, 1974: Wendell Ford (D) vs. Marlow Cook (R). But get this: when Ford defeated Cook, Cook resigned so that Ford could be appointed to finish his term and thereby gain an edge in seniority. This is actually something Cook's predecessor had done, too, when Cook won the seat of the retiring Thruston Morton (R)  in 1968.

FWIW, he doesn't talk about Sen. Clinton at all.

So you read the article, and instead of finding evidence to refute it, you criticize it on the basis that it's a wiki?  Puhleeze.  That's not a refutation of my argument!  The odds are overwhelming that the wiki is correct, and you are not.  You can go search for an "official" list if you want.  I have supported my assertion, albeit half-assedly.  You have not.  Point to me.

The plain fact is that I do not like Sen. Clinton.  I don't have to!  She's President-elect Obama's choice, not mine, and she has to please him, not me.  I just hope she does a good job.  With Bill to advise her, I'm sure she will.

and 2 R seats.  It's mostly significant in terms of the new Senators' preferences for committee assignments.

Try the Senate Seniority wiki.  Resigning early may not be common, but it has happened in the past.  Perhaps this piece of the Senate seniority list will be informative:

10     Max Baucus (D-MT)     December 15, 1978
11     Thad Cochran (R-MS)     December 27, 1978
12     John Warner (R-VA)     January 2, 1979
13     Carl Levin (D-MI)     January 3, 1979

The new junior NY Senator will be #100 in seniority if Hillary waits until her confirmation to resign.  S/he would be #90 if Hillary resigned today, ahead of 8 other Democrats, with preferences of committee assignments and office space, among other perks.

but here on myDLC, any marginally negative comment about her is taken that way.

Actually, I think HRC is being perfectly rational about the SoS job, with respect to her own power and position.  I would expect no less from her.  But let's make no mistake about it, holding on to her Senate seat until the last minute is a safety play.  It's not really in the long-term best interest of the people of NY, who could use some extra seniority in their new junior Senator.

How about Stephanopoulos?  I agree that Maddow is an unlikely choice, but not because she's partisan.  Every talking head on teevee is partisan.  NBC won't pick Maddow because she's too liberal and independent for NBC's corporate masters.