Majority Leader Hillary Clinton

MyDD mentions an interesting way out of this mess for Democrats, brokered by Al Gore, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean: in exchange for dropping out of the presidential race, Harry Reid will resign as majority leader and nominated Clinton for the job, leaving her as one of the most powerful Democrats on the hill, with about 55 Democratic senators in the next Congress. Reid would then be lining himself up for a cabinet post in the Obama administration.