Tip your hat to Harry Reid......

A NYTimes article on the Bush administration making a few long term board appointments on the way out, but, the really interesting bit is about halfway down.

Once again, Harry Reid has assigned a rotating responsibility among the Dem Senators for someone to stay around to "gavel a session to order" every so often to prevent the outgoing Bush from making recess appointments, a President's prerogative to bypass Senate approval on judgeships and other pretty important posts.

Also, There's a report that Harry Reid will keep VP Biden out of the Senate Dem Caucus functions. This wouldn't normally be of interest except that this was one of the ways that Dick Cheney exercised undue power to tip the balance more towards the executive branch.