Daily Political News Summary - Monday, December 8, 2008

►Condi RIce and Hillary Clinton to have dinner tonight at Rice's Watergate apartment.  

“NBC News reports that the current Secretary of State is having her successor over for dinner: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host Hillary Clinton tonight for dinner at Rice's Watergate apartment, State Department transition sources tell NBC News.”

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►President-elect Obama's choice of an education secretary will very likely displease one faction or the other.

Two competing factions, the "reformers", and the teacher's unions, have different ideas as to who it should be, and there doesn't seem to be an actual candidate who can bridge that divide.One person does come close, Chicago schools superintendent, Arne Duncan.

“Can Obama make both sides happy? Not likely, said Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.”

One candidate might fit the bill _ Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan, who has spent seven years running the country's third-largest school district.