I have to admit that for a few days after the election last week, I was somewhat stunned, and so resorted to just taking in the historic moment. Which explains why I haven’t posted anything in almost a week.

But now that President-Elect Obama has named Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff and the speculation about cabinet appointments has begun, not to mention the meeting today with Bush in the Oval Office, the transition is in full swing. And it occurred to me today that what we’re seeing is a shift from the Texas-centered, oil and gas-based Bush family influence to the Illinois Democratic, Chicago political machine type governance. Of course, that might be oversimplifying, but I’ll be curious to follow the developments in the new Obama White House either way.

Read about the Chicago factor (or lack thereof) here in a post from Frank James on The Swamp.

In the meantime, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get reacquainted with Chicago’s astute political observer, the late, great Mike Royko.