Those curious to know how Washington functions in the era of Barack Obama would benefit from reading a Dec. 17 item by Al Kamen in the Washington Post. Its 333 words pretty much sum things up.
The number of possible nominees to replace outgoing Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Kamen writes, is decreasing. And “one name seems to be popping up increasingly.” That would be the name of (pop!) Tom Steyer, the San Francisco hedge fund billionaire and political activist whose financial prospects have an uncanny symmetry with the alternative energy policies of the present administration.