Ken Berwitz

Subject to confirmation (which should be a piece of cake in this senate) Eric Holder will be Barack Obama's Attorney General.

Holder is that wonderful fellow who ran interference for Bill Clinton and gave him a favorable opinion on pardoning the international criminal marc rich - after rich shtupped Clinton with tons of donations channeled through his ex-wife denise (who, it was rumored, was being shtupped by  Clinton).  Lovely, just lovely.  And so "clinton", wouldn't you say?

But that isn't the fascinating little factoid.  The fascinating little factoid is that Mr. Holder was also George Bush's first Attorney General. 

Yes, you read that correctly.  He was acting AG for a few weeks between the time Mr. Bush took office and John Ashcroft was confirmed.

I have no idea what any of this means, but I thought it was interesting.  I hope you do too.