Negroponte Demoted?

The former Ambassador to the Honduras under Reagan, and to the UN and Iraq under the current Bush, as well as his National Intelligence Director is now Condaleeza Rice's Deputy at the State Department? Something's up and Confederate Yankee has a theory:

Negroponte is moving in to be in a position to take over for Rice, but not because Rice is going out of office, but up. Vice President Dick Cheney will resign due to much more plausible health problems (the poor guy has worn-out defibrillators, hasn't he?), and Dr. Rice will step in as our first female Vice President sometime during the summer or early fall of 2007. She will then be "pushed" into running as the Republican contender against Hillary, setting up our first guaranteed female president as a result of the 2008 elections.

I agree! We'll see.