http://www.politico.com/news/stories/110... --

"The day after Barack Obama won the presidency, BGR Holding, once one of Washington’s dominant Republican-only lobbying shops, announced it had acquired a Democratic firm with close ties to the incoming administration.

BGR’s acquisition of Westin Rinehart illustrates a broad restructuring on K Street that’s accelerating now that Democrats are poised to control both Congress and the White House.

Republican heads of business trade groups are bracing for pink slips, and some corporate offices are giving Democratic lobbyists promotions to co-chair their shops and help open more doors on Capitol Hill and in the new administration.

The repositioning highlights how little Washington is likely to change, despite all the anti-lobbyist rhetoric tossed around in the campaign.
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“... If Emanuel — a member of the House Democratic leadership with ambitions to one day to be House speaker — were to turn it down, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) would likely get the nod, the sources said.

Some Democrats have warned that Emanuel’s take-no-prisoners style could hurt Obama. But the president-elect wants to move fast to push his legislative agenda through the Democratic-controlled Congress — and Emanuel knows the Hill and power politics as well as anyone in town.

“Obama wants a bad cop, so he can be good cop 90 percent of the time,” an adviser said.
..." -- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/110...

back in the government, why didn't we just elect Clinton?

As to how to tell the good Republicans from the bad Republicans, wikipedia is helpful:

[Good Republicans] had certain characteristics by which they could be detected, such as the absence of a pulse. Nearly all were emotionless and had "mutated" fourth fingers which could not move and were bent at an unnatural angle, although there were many "deluxe models" who could manipulate this finger.

Note the past tense.

But I think your characterization of Republicans as "minions of Satan" is a little over the top. You should take the advice of this poster:

Too much hostility. Much will be lost with continued enmity; much will be gained if we can but find a way to reconcile and unite.

will go into the memory hole. Back in the day at the big cheeto I seem to remember a great deal of righteous indignation at any mention of the DLC. I guess having the quintessential DLCer as Chief of State is the Brilliantest. Idea. Evah.

Larry Summers is being considered for Treasury Sec. Another member of the Clinton administration.

My husband listened to National Press Club speeches by the DNC and RNC chairs today. Michael Duncan, the RNC chair, pretty much told everybody that the dem congressional leadership, Reid and Pelosi, were out-of-control liberals, and Obama had better drag them to the center and kowtow to the repubs if they wanted to get anything done.

One day after the election, after eight years of the Worst President Ever™.

He has his noive.

How's that desire for bipartisanship working out for you, Obama?

I really didn't think Rahm would take this, at least not so quickly. But, euphoria is a helluvan emotion. Rahm is built for this kind of job, though. He's a much better manager, than a politician.

BTW, Obama wrote the Republicans a bipartisan check, and all should be as sure as hell to believe that they are going to attempt to cash it. They, not us, will be the ones that get to hold his feet to the fire. They are the ones he made promises to that he has to keep. Apparently, they are the ones we've been waiting for, I guess.