Musical Chairs for Team Dubya.

In not-unrelated news, the Dubya White House shuffles its deck to make ready for divided government, replacing failed Supreme Court bid Harriet Miers as White House counsel (likely in favor of someone more aggressive, so as to counter Dem subpoenas), kicking national intelligence director Nicholas Negroponte over to State (to be replaced by Vice Admiral Mike McConnell), appointing Thomas D'Agostino as new nuclear chief (the old one, Linton Brooks, seems to have been of the "Brownie" school of management), putting Iraq ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in John Bolton's former position at the UN (his job goes to Ryan Crocker), and overhauling their top military team in Iraq. As the WP's Dan Froomkin reads the tea leaves, "I see a possible theme: A purge of the unbelievers."