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Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary?

We still have a Commerce Secretary?  What the hell has the last one been doing for the past five years? Playing tiddlywinks?

Making official what many Democrats have expected for weeks, President Obama plans to nominate Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, a longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser, as his new Commerce secretary this morning.

Pritzker’s nomination could prove controversial. She is on the board of Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corp., which was founded by her wealthy family and has had rocky relations with labor unions, and she could face questions about the failure of a bank partly owned by her family.

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#rsrh Wondering why that Eisenhower monument monstrosity…

…is still going up, despite the fact that opposition to it in Congress ranges from Darrell Issa to Jim Moran? Try looking at the links. The architect (Frank Gehry) is a pet of the Pritzker family of Chicago (yeah, the ones who own Hyatt); and Penny Pritzker, of course, is herself one of President Obama’s pets. Or possibly it’s the other way around…

Either way, it’s perhaps not exactly an accident that a ‘monument’ made by this guy is still in production. Despite the fact that the Eisenhower family itself hates the design. Guess old Dwight should have gotten into the hotel business, instead of just helping to save Western civilization from its home-grown barbarians. Really! Some people have such skewed priorities…