Is code for "someone who will bow down to big Coal, I guess. We see who Corker and Alexander serve and it's not us.

I wondered why she wasn't one of the recently confirmed nominees. Now we know.

Bob Corker can't even read and he is in the Senate.

I wonder why the eco community doesn't make this Marilyn Brown's nomination a "cause celebre"? This looks like the climate change moment we've been waiting for.

From what I see that falls in the category of hard to believe.

Aw, she's just one of them dirty hippies. Who needs 'em?

I have seen a couple times over the years someone so uniquely and exhaustively qualified for a position not hiring them would have seemed to be something no one would consider for a second. You are lucky they want the job. Then a committee hires someone not even remotely as qualified.

It gradually fades from memory because what you miss in the future is something that never happens. The ideas and implementations of which no one else is aware.