Obama Picks Susan Rice As National Security Adviser!

President Barack Obama picks UN ambassador Susan Rice as his National Security Adviser.  This pick is a retaliation to the Republicans for their refusal to look into Rice as a Secretary of State. The pick went to John Kerry. The president warns Republicans not to filibuster his picks.

The Republicans will crow about President Barack Obama's pick for National Security Adviser.

The United Nations ambassador Susan Rice will be nominated to fill the position of National Security Adviser. This decision will bring the Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham back into the spotlight. McCain (R-Arizona) and Graham (R-South Carolina) are two of the gadflies who will whine about it.

The president can pick someone who can be an adviser without the approval of the U.S. Senate.

The conservatives will be totally pissed that the president thumb his nose at the Republicans by picking a woman who went to five Sunday talk shows to defend the president's handling in Benghazi.

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues. This person also participates in the meetings of the National Security Council. The National Security Advisor's office is located in the West Wing of the White House. He or she is supported by the National Security Council staff that produces research, briefings, and intelligence for the APNSA to review and present either to the National Security Council or directly to the President.

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs is appointed by the President without confirmation by the United States Senate. However, the APNSA is a staff position in the Executive Office of the President and does not have line authority over either the Department of State or the Department of Defense, but is able, as a consequence thereof, to offer advice to the President - unlike the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense who are Senate-confirmed officials with line authority over their departments - independently of the vested interests of the large bureaucracies and clientele of those departments.

She will replace Tom Donilon. Donilon will step down by the end of the month.