“The political irony of Obama’s situation has got to tickle Republicans,” writes Jill Lawrence at theNational Journal in her spotlight of a new problem for Barack Obama in his second-term appointments.  Lawrence says to forget about the lack of women in the new round of high-ranking nominees, and start looking at the dearth of Latinos.  With Ken Salazar and Hilda Solis heading for the exits, what had been an issue for Obama even prior to the election may erupt into an open squabble on the Left