“At a short White House ceremony, President Obama named Mary Jo White, the first female United States attorney in Manhattan, to run the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Obama also renominated Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a position he has held for the last year under a temporary recess appointment without Senate approval.”

I regard it as proper & healthy to be deeply skeptical of all of Obama’s appointments, but I confess to a certain charm in this one.  I read this passage (below) on the petite woman in red in the photo and I was had.  Utterly had:

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“While former employees described her as ‘no nonsense,’ she was often spotted sipping a Bud Light at a weekly social gathering for junior prosecutors. And despite being barely 5 feet tall, she also was an exuberant point guard in a local lawyers’ basketball league, and once arrived at a tennis match on a red motorcycle, while Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’ blared loudly.”

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My kind of woman!

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