Right Person For The Job Edition

Elizabeth Warren finally got into her first hearing on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and thanks to this Gawker article, we get to see how it went.

Elizabeth Warren Puts Bank Regulators To Shame In First Senate Hearing

Here's the actual video:

So that's an example of what happens when the person with the right qualifications gets matched up with the right job.  This isn't some typical junior Senator testing the waters in the big boy pool with an outstretched toe, this is a banking expert looking at representatives of a flawed system and asking "Just what the hell are you doing?"

Here's what happens when you don't match up the skill set with the position, and in my bias, sometimes the Republican way (like anti-government Tea Party-ers getting elected to government or anti-UN Boltons becoming our Ambassador to the UN).

He is Representative Paul Broun, a physician, who chairs the oversight sub-committee in the House Science Committee.

An old favorite, but I think this clip begs the question... should he be allowed to keep his MD credentials if he's declaring in public that embryology falls under the Lies Straight From The Pit Of Hell heading.  I'd be curious to watch Rep. Paul Broun MD question someone on a committee...

Broun: We currently spend XX millions of dollars on research to map God's divine miracle, the human brain, just like we did with mapping God's divine cookbook with the human genome.

Scientist: Uh... I'm sorry, what?

Broun: I'm just saying that's a lot of money just to prove what we already know.

Scientist: I'm not sure what you mean, where is this heading?

Broun: To the pit of hell.

Scientist: I'm sorry, what?

Broun: You heard me.  To Hell's pits.  How do you respond?

Scientist: Respond?  I want to laugh but that feels somehow out of place.

Someday, I hope my children's children live in a country where the right people for governing are encouraged to contribute their public service in a system that doesn't drive away all hope or reason.  I wonder what country that will be and when we immigrated?