THE YEAR OF THE ESTABLISHMENT:

[I]t signals that a third Clinton administration will be business as usual. It's a stick in the eye to all the Americans grumbling for change who signed onto the out-of-nowhere candidacy of Bernie Sanders and the millions more who see (or saw) in Donald Trump a wild and crazy chance to defy the political Establishment of both parties and elect an outsider to run the country.

The Biden diversion isn't the only sign out there that we are about to get four more years of 'same old, same old' if Hillary is elected.

Intense pressure is being put on John Podesta, the top dog in the Clinton Campaign and the owner of the hacked email account from which Clinton Foundation revelations were flowing, to be her Chief of Staff. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But Podesta is the political Establishment. A founder (with his brother Tony) of the powerhouse lobbying firm Podesta Group, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the first Clinton White House and Chief of Staff in the second. He is about as inside an insider as it gets in Washington.

Then there is Ken Salazar. The former Senator and Interior Secretary in the first Obama Administration is the head of the Clinton transition team, which will present Madame President - should there be one -- with a list of choices for her Cabinet, as well as lesser posts. His day job is partner in WilmerHale, a big-name law and lobbying firm.

See a lot of change a-comin' here?

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