Governor Doyle has been contacted by Obama's people ...

This could be good for our state. Perhaps bad for our country.

According to Scott Bauer for the AP, the Obama camp has contacted Doyle about a potential position.

"Doyle's spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner said the contact was recent, but he didn't have any details about it. Stephanie Cutter, spokeswoman for Obama's transition team, said the team is not confirming or denying any contacts that have been made."

"I don't expect I'm going to have any such call," Doyle said on election night. "I know this, I'm not trying to get a position, I'm not angling for it, I don't want it."

Of course, it was widely recognized that his speech for the DNC and early campaigning for Obama was apt to win him some brownie points with a potential future administration.

We're assuming that Doyle will be able to trudge through his entire past and dig up all the little details that Obama is demanding. All of the questions that the American people would have liked to know about Obama during the campaign made good fodder for the construction of this questionnaire (Full document PDF link).

There are lists circulating that speculate about the folks being considered for key positions. Doyle doesn't appear on any of those lists.

Wisconsin natives will be happy to see him go, as he has led us into a $5billion deficit (estimated by 2011). He won the governorship by questioning Gov. McCallum's economic policies. McCallum left us with a $3.2billion deficit. If that was enough to demand a changing of the guard, then it's high time to see Doyle move elsewhere.

An appointment of Doyle to Obama's administration would leave us with "Governor" Barb Lawton. At least until 2010.