So this is the 'expert' in charge of the auto industry

Really, why didn't Obama just make his new dog the honcho. Instead, we get a guy who, as far as I can tell, has never had a real job, let alone experience in the industry he's supposed to transform.

It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism.

But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.

Nor, for that matter, had he given much thought to what ailed an industry that had been in decline ever since he was born. A bit laconic and looking every bit the just-out-of-graduate-school student adjusting to life in the West Wing — “he’s got this beard that appears and disappears,” says Steven Rattner, one of the leaders of President Obama’s automotive task force — Mr. Deese was thrown into the auto industry’s maelstrom as soon the election-night parties ended.

“There was a time between Nov. 4 and mid-February when I was the only full-time member of the auto task force,” Mr. Deese, a special assistant to the president for economic policy, acknowledged recently as he hurried between his desk at the White House and the Treasury building next door. “It was a little scary.”

A little scary? Is this a joke?

Look, I know government-is-your-friend types think that there's no area of human life that a bureaucrat couldn't make better, but this guy almost seems like he was appointed on a dare. As if the White House staffers sat around trying to see just how much they can get away with, and were torn between this guy and the pizza deliveryman. The deliveryman refused to give up his honest employment for a government job, so we got Deese.