It’s hard watching from the outside, not being inside. I’ve had one job in one administration — nothing important, but it was exciting. I was offered two important jobs — one of them at the very beginning of another administration — neither of which I could accept. So I know what it’s like to be involved, no matter how tangentially, in the building of a new administration.

I know what it’s like to be wandering the White House, get lost, go to open a door, and an armed agent, literally out of nowhere, stop me to say that the door I was about to open would be the Oval Office. I know the heady feeling of being in the office late at night, the vast majority of government workers gone home, working on a speech or a policy directive.

What the brand new members of the Obama administration are doing right now is having a lot of fun. I can’t help but feel like the little boy looking at the puppy behind the storefront window.

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