De says, "But I strongly suspect that after four years of Hillary Clinton and four of John Kerry, there's much to be said for a housecleaning at Foggy Bottom."
I don't doubt that at all. State has been a hiding and breeding ground for hardcore lefists and wishy-washy statists for DECADES. If I was taking over State, I would want to flush all of those snakes out of the grass, too ... and getting rid of the big snakes at the top would be my first order of business.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence