AND THE POLITICAL HACKS JUST KEEP ON COMING

And still another totally unqualified Bush crony at Health and Human Services, the agency assigned to handle the possible flu epidemic. This cronyism charge has no end to it. There is a long history of a "spoils" system in all democracies, but these days one hopes "spoils" will be limited to things like ambassador to Guam or chief of rodent abatement in Death Valley. The story is in the lefty CNS via MoveOnDotOrg, but even paranoids are right sometimes.

Stewart Simonson is the Bush administration's point man for a flu pandemic but he has no public health management experience. He got his job because he is a close associate of former Health & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson

Somebody in the White House better get themselves a pooper scooper and clean this mess up. Pronto.