Right Man for the Job

[supergee]

So there's this Republican who wants to chair the House Energy Committee even though he believes that God will protect us from global warming. I have dug up an account of an equally qualified predecessor:

The worst appointment was Tom Shaw to the War Office. When one of his civil servants sought ratification for some urgent action over riots in Palestine, Shaw's private secretary relayed a telephoned reply: "Mr. Tom Shaw is a pacifist and does not wish to have anything to do with war or military operations."

--Robert Blake, The Decline of Power, 1915-1964