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There's a new website for the president-elect: Change.gov . Lots of information here on the inauguration, the new administration, the agenda (or will be). It includes a link to Presidential Transition Resources site, a directory of new position holders as they are named. Should be very helpful. ( Updated: ) Also see Sheila Lennon's posting on the new site. This is a surprise, I think, considering that in the past I haven't found federal government websites to be particularly current; I must say there has been a big change in the last year or so and new websites have been coming online in response to current issues. (Example: another new site for information on veteran services, Warrior Care .) But: was this created by the Obama team and a totally new product, not a product of the current administration's web team? It'll be interesting watching what the Obama administration does with the federal Web. I just hope there aren't lots and lots of URL changes, as ha...

In the Miami Herald, a collaboration between long-time Herald Caribbean correspondent Don Bohning (author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959-1965 ) and Jack Hawkins, paramilitary chief of the Bay of Pigs operation: Kennedy, Bush made similar mistakes in Cuba, Iraq . From Hawkins: Key high-level civilian officials of both the Kennedy and Bush administrations had similar characteristics which caused them to make serious mistakes in the management of the Cuba operation in 1961 and the ongoing Iraq War: They had little or no military experience but were inclined to make important decisions about military operational matters against the advice of experienced military officers. In both administrations, the Secretary of Defense tended to suppress the free expression of opinions by members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to isolate them from the President, who needed to know their opinions first-hand and unfiltered.

Here's Twitter from the Senate Floor ; Twitter from the House Floor .