President Elect Obama announces his new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. What I particularly like about the announcement is Obama’s recognition that a housing mortgage crisis solution team should have the HUD Secretary as a key player. I have been wondering for months why we never hear from Bush’s HUD Secretary, whoever that may be.

I think it says a lot about Bush’s understanding of how to make the executive branch work, that he has not realized that a housing financial crisis is not just a financial crisis, but that it also involves housing.

Follow this link to the Huffington Post article that has the video plus a slow motion video and some slides of the incident.

I am sure every one has seen this by now, but I just had to record this on my Blog for posterity.

We have just gone through an ice storm and I have been without internet, cable TV, and telephone for three days.  This is the first news story I saw since getting my internet connection back.  I am surprised that this was not prominently featured in the newspaper which I have been receiving during the blackout of all my other media.  I didn’t even hear about it on NPR.