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Secretary Of Corn

By The Daily Dish

Dec 17 2008, 12:34 PM ET

Yglesias on Obama appointing Tom Vilsack to secretary of agriculture:

Given the Obama administration’s high environmental aspirations, it seems perverse to just pretend that agricultural policy doesn’t have environmental impact. But that’s the convention in American politics and it looks like something Team Obama is comfortable with.

Ezra Klein also disapproves.



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