I loved Krauthammer’s comments last week about why Hillary was on edge, given that so many of the responsibilities that would be hers as secretary of state have been given to others:

But I think part of it is also the venue. Here you have Richard Holbrooke running Afghanistan and Pakistan — the heart of our troubles in Asia. You have George Mitchell in the Middle East. You have envoys here and there, and she is the secretary of state, and she’s sitting in the Congo, in the Congo?
You’ve got Petraeus running Afghanistan. You’ve got Odierno running Iraq. She is totally marginalized, sitting in Kinshasa. I’m sure it is a great city — in fact, it’s not — but the Congo? Africa is very low on the scale of important interests of the United States.

It’s kind of like in Japan, where problem workers with lifetime employment are just put into an empty office for eight hours a day with nothing to do. Well, now add another thing she no longer runs: The White House has now taken away chief responsibility for the resettlement of Iraqi refugees from Hillary’s purview and given it to — it’s almost too good to be true — Samantha “She is a monster” Powers. It’s not a big responsibility, true, but it’s likely to be in the spotlight and it’s clearly in the bailiwick of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Heck, the vice president has a more important job than Hillary does — maybe he’ll delegate to her some of the overseas funerals he doesn’t want to bother with.