SO THE PUTATIVELY PRO-LIFE MR. DASCHLE WILL BE IN CHARGE OF FUNDING ABORTIONS WITH TAX DOLLARS?:

Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary: From Access to Health Care to Questions of Bioethics, Slew of Challenges Await (LISA STARK, BRIAN HARTMAN and KATE BARRETT, Nov. 19, 2008, ABC News)

President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday named former Sen. Tom Daschle to lead the nation's Department of Health and Human Services.

Daschle, D-S.D., is one of Obama's first Cabinet picks. If confirmed by the Senate, he will replace HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt in guiding critical, high-profile federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The massive job includes oversight of a department budget that exceeded $707 billion for fiscal year 2008.

And it's yet another guy with no executive experience to run a department that actually does stuff that matters?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 19, 2008 9:37 PM