Word came from Romenesko’s blog the other day that Mark Halperin, ABC News’ political director for a decade, would step aside to become a political analyst for the network. Halperin was part of the political Class of ’92 — those of us who slogged along with Bill Clinton on his long, strange trip that ended up at the White House.

I like to think we’ve done pretty well for ourselves. Gwen Ifill, then of The New York Times, hosts PBS’ Washington Week. USA TODAY’s Adam Nagourney went to the Times to write big political navel-gazers that I still love to read. John King of the AP is now CNN’s chief national correspondent (and he eventually was replaced at the AP by Ron Fournier, a former colleague of mine in Little Rock). Joe Klein of New York magazine became Joe Klein of many magazines and broadcast outlets, and eventually ‘Anonymous’ of Primary Colors fame.

Kit Seelye of the Philly Inquirer went to the Times; the AP’s Jill Lawrence wound up at USA TODAY; Dan Balz remains at The Washington Post and Ron Brownstein is still at the Los Angeles Times; Andrea Mitchell is still Andrea Mitchell; the Chicago Tribune‘s Mitch Locin, like me, went the dot-com route (although he stayed at the Tribune); Time‘s Walter Shapiro, my former row-mate on Clinton’s barely-airworthy fall campaign jet, went to USAT and then to Places Unknown; and George Stephanopoulos, who tried to chase the press out of the White House and pretty much made life tough for  Dee Dee Myers,now is a  member of the group he once so actively misled.  That’s the way it goes in this business.