It’s official. AND LET US NEVER PUT A SCIENTIST IN THAT PARTICULAR CABINET POSITION, EVER AGAIN. I don’t actually want to criticize the administration too strongly on this one: on paper, it seemed like a smart idea. In reality, we got Solyndra:
Nothing personal against Chu, but smart in one field does not equal being smart in all of them.
…Oops?
Andrew Malcolm is quite blunt:
As the Labor Department today reported more disappointing hiring news for January, including an unexpected jump in the unemployment rate, President Obama joined thousands of other American employers and let his own White House jobs council go.
The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness expired in obscurity Thursday in an unmarked bureaucratic grave. Created two years ago to display the Chicagoan’s alleged concern with high unemployment, whatever its PR showcase value had long since ended.
Continue reading White House job council closes as unemployment rate increases.
He was 88 I always liked Ed Koch; he fit as Mayor of NYC in a way that a lot of his predecessors and successors (particularly that idiot running the city into the ground now) never could manage. And he had a good time doing it, too.
Godspeed, Hizzoner. Take a couple of days before you start planning your primary challenge to St. Peter, all right?
