Staying in the Cabinet.

As I've hinted earlier, I don't think the dominant story line on the second-term Bush Cabinet--i.e., he's ousting the free thinkers and replacing them with toadies--holds a lot of water. With the possible exception of Colin Powell, the folks who have moved on have hardly been mavericks or loose cannons (OK, maybe Tommy Thompson). But it is true that those who are staying (at least for now) certainly aren't a group that will hog the spotlight from the boss: HUD's Alphonso Jackson, Interior's Gail Norton, Labor's Elaine Chao, Transportation's Norman Mineta, Treasury's hanging-by-a-thread John Snow and VA's Anthony Principi. I doubt that the vast majority of Americans would recognize any of these people on sight. The exception to the rule, of course, is Donald Rumsfeld, but he doesn't really count, because you can't switch defense secretaries in the middle of a war.