Hah, there ain't no stinkin liberals in Dallas...I think I'm home free!!
Moses: Good point. The only thing working in my favor with Job 1 is that the group is owned by a 501A of the hospital, so it is really in their best interests to have their own guys doing the work rather than an independent group.
Nostatic: Another good point. There is a minimal teaching staff at this hospital, it isn't one of the big teaching hospitals, they only have two residency programs that I know of. The full time academic faculty are only two, everyone else will be doing this part time academic/part time private thing. You are dead on about the power base though, the program I am at now is that way, two weeks ago I got cross ways with the head of the department who has been there since time began. Needless to say, I just sat there and let him berate me, there really isn't anything I could do or say in return.
The good news is that there are probably more opportunities on the horizon, I made some contacts while in Dallas and will try and talk with a couple more groups this week. Hopefully by September or October I will have things pretty well scoped out.