While listening to Fox News in the background Terry Keenan mentioned that the nominee to replace Fed. Chair Alan Greenspan had finished 2nd in the National Spelling Bee.
(the linked story leaves off that biographical tidbit)
All his experience and credentials would suggest he is highly qualified and should sail through confirmation, but when I see the children on ESPN competing for the National Spelling Bee, they seem like future research scientest and oddball professors, not important policy makers. Maybe 40-45 years ago the children who competed were a little less geeky, but I doubt it.
Picking a respected egghead to replace a respected egghead (who wasn't so respected in 87 when he was first nominated) is definitely the right move politically for Pres. Bush in the wake of the Harriet Miers kerfuffle.
24 October 2005
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As far as I know, Jon, yes you are.
(Link whoring does work, how about that)
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