Housing Secretary to Resign

You'd think I'd get used to this, but I am always amazed and baffled at the ineptitude of almost everyone in the Bush administration. Of course the recent downturn in the economy is not completely this man's fault, or any individual in particular, but he did have an effect. Money quote to come out of this New York Times article:

In 2004, less than two months after his confirmation as housing secretary, Mr. Jackson told a House panel that he believed poverty “is a state of mind, not a condition.” Two years later, he said in a speech that he had canceled a contract for a company after its president told him that he did not like Mr. Bush. Mr. Jackson later said he had made the story up.