Actually, despite being a former governor of Iowa ... or perhaps because of being, if familiarity with Agribusiness sometimes breeds contempt ... from what little I saw in the blogosphere reaction to Vilsack, it seems like he might have been better than some of the traditional Secretaries of Agribusiness that we have had.

Of course, on the timelines of transition past, we are getting announcements incredibly early.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.