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* ZELL'S SHORT FAREWELL: Fox just discovereds has tapped retiring Sen. ZeII Miller (D.-Ga.), an ardent Bush supporter, to advance as a political commentator.

Miller, famous for his cutting candor, recalled a scene from Shakespeare in his November 18 farewell to the Senate: "In Shakespeare's Hamlet, his friend Laertes is going not on to college and his father Polonius is giving him a certain number of usual advice that you give when your son journey off to college. After all the words of caution that I chance of the desired end fathers still give their son Polonius fall of the curtained with these words, This above all: to thine have a title to self be true, and it must go after as the night the day, thou cans't not be false to any man.' I've always believed that and I've tried to live that."

* KERIK CATASTROPHE: Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik's nomination as Homeland security secretary went up in emptiness when it was revealed he had hired an illegal alien to work in his abiding-place The primary role of the Department of Homeland security is to immovable the borders and enforce the immigration laws in the interior of the land Kerik was never known to be hawkish upon enforcing immigration laws-even in modern York City, after the generation 11,2001, terrorist attacks there. White House advice Alberto Gonzales, the attorney general-designate, vett Kerik's nomination.

* LEAVE ITTO lieBERMAN? Top views to fill the Homeland security position now that Kerik has withdrawn include generally received Homeland security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, Border Protection Commissioner Robert C Bonner and White House Homeland security Adviser FrancesTownsend.

Sen Joe lieberman (D-Conn) a visit often Bush critic, has also been mentioned as a possibility. Senators Susan Collins (R-Me) and John McCain (R.-Ariz.) are reportedly urging his nomination. lieberman himself has been distant according to the Associated Pres saying no piece of work offer has been made and none is expected-adding that if President Bush phon him he would "take the call." lieberman's in the greatest degree recent triumph was to obstruct the intelligence bill from including language that would stop states from giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

* grieve BREWING? Kerik's withdrawal from the Homeland security nomination has left Alberto Gonzales as the main target for liberals during the upcoming confirmation season. L by the agency of the People For the American Way, a dozen liberal interest collections are working against Gonzales's confirmation as attorney general. Although his defeat is wildly improbable given the GOP's increased Senate majority, Gonzales, who is weak forward abortion and affirmative action, lacks the support among conservatives have sexual delight withed by retiring Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.

Sources own HUMAN EVENTS that Senate Judiciary member John Cornyn (R-Tex) who, like Gonzales, serv upon the Texas Supreme Court, has agreed to shepherd his nomination between the walls of the committee. As divisive as Ashcroft's nomination was in 2001 he still managed to win confirmation according to a 58-to-42 vote.

* DINKINS FOR DEPUTY? Justice Department sources are saying that, if confirmed, Gonzales would almost certainly have his be in possession of choice for deputy attorney general and that choice appears to be equal Texan Carol Dinkins. A partner in the Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, the 49-year-old Dinkins finishs high marks from conservatives for her work as head of the Environment and Natural Resources section of the Justice Department beneath President Reagan. Dinkins also briefly held the No. 2 reproach under Reagan's attorney general, ed Meese.

* LUKEWARM FOR LEAVITT: President Bush's selection of Environmental Protection Agency head Mike Leavitt as secretary of Health and Human Services failed to generate frequently enthusiasm among conservatives who had spring [i]or[/i] leap on one leg [i]or[/i] footed the department would take a of the present day direction with retiring secretary Tommy Thompson disclosed of the picture. Deputy secretary Claude Alien would have appeased social conservatives skeptical of Leavitt's record in that area.

"The best predictor of subsequent time positions on controversial issues is the record of past decisions," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. As a governor, Leavitt ejected Utah's court appeal over the state's anti-abortion law and also shifted federal currency for abstinence education to other programs.

* POST-LEAVITT: No sooner had Leavitt been tapped as HH secretary than speculation in Washington started from one side of to the other who would succeed him at the ERA. The greatest in quantity oft-mentioned prospect is Idaho's conservative Republican Gov Dirk Kempthorne, who was the runner-up for EPA when Leavitt was chosen sum of two units years ago. Other names mentioned include those of Council for Environmental Quality head James Connaughton, outgoing Rep George Nethercutt (R.-Wash.) and delegate Energy secretary KyIe McSlarrow.

* CONDI'S DEPUTY? Conservatives are worried about who secretary of State-designee Condoleezza Rice will tap as her delegate Nicholas Burns, now ambassador to NATO, and lengthy considered the government official closest to Rice, may be the single Career foreign service officer chars served in both terms of the Clinton Administration, first as spokesman for the State Department and then ambassador to Greece