Meanwhile none of the 23 senators and 153 house representatives who voted against war in Iraq are on Obama’s list for positions within his handlers administration. Robert Gates will be the first ever defense secretary to be held over by a president of a different party, and is seen as a showing of “bipartisan continuity” and not to fulfill a military agenda that has been in the works long before Rumsfeld was thrown out. A big thanks to Fox news for keeping our minds out of date with your transition tracker!