Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, a strong proponent of ethanol who made a brief bid for the presidency in 2007, will be named today as President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for agriculture secretary, a senior Democratic official said.
Vilsack promises to do his best to artifically inflate the price of food while also inflating the price of energy, cause extensive environmental damage and ignore science and economics. Ta-Da!
After reading up on Vilsack to make sure muppetpants wasn’t going overboard, I made a haiku:
The government doesn’t eat
The future is bleak.
