Maybe This Celebrity Guy Will Lead Commerce!
Barack Obama has completely exhausted his list of passingly competent government nobodies to fill the remaining positions in his upper-level administration, so now he is reaching out to people he has heard about on the teevee. Today we hear that Richard Parsons is under consideration for Secretary of Commerce now that Bill Richardson has returned to beard-farming. You remember Dick Parsons, yes? Former chairman of Time Warner, one of a select handful of black people to run a Fortune 500 company, etc? He also apparently "ran a Social Security study group in [the] Bush era," which should send a cold chill of fear down your spine. Dick Parsons is obviously Beelzebub. [ The Page ]