“Louisiana’s greatest jobs challenge is restarting drilling in the Gulf. So President Obama nominates someone as his jobs secretary who co-founded the group that files more baseless lawsuits against drilling than any other. This is deeply, deeply disturbing.”

– Sen. David Vitter, upon yesterday’s announcement that John Bryson, the co-founder of the hard-left environmentalist Natural Resource Defense Council, is the Obama administration’s new choice for Commerce Secretary.