On High-Level Federal Appointments

     I so should've applied for the top job at the Securities and Exchange Commission.  C'mon -- I played Monopoly a lot as a kid; I ran a cash register the summer I worked at a paint store -- and I read the financial news on the radio once a day, right off the wire, for almost two years!

     Like 'em or loathe 'em, for all of my life, nearly every one of Presidential appointees to the top jobs in the Executive Branch have been highly qualified, at least on paper.  In the past, when Presidents have tried to promote people who were not heavy hitters with prior experience -- remember Harriet Miers? -- the nominees tended to get shouted or laughed down. 

     Man, those were the days.