During discussion of President Obama’s State of the Union address over at Power Line Live on Tuesday, John wondered which cabinet member had been sent to the “undisclosed location” in the event of some catastrophe that wiped out the House chamber. Turns out it was Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, whom the National Journal described as a “mad scientist.” Well, you decide:
I don’t know if this is fair to Moniz or not–I’ve been rather impressed with most of the MIT energy folks I’ve stumbled across–and indeed Moniz doesn’t exactly have a Washington DC-conforming haircut, but it does look to me like we’re well on our way to the president of the United Federation of Planets:
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