Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Too often that sums up the career politicians who run the federal government. But the Department of Energy's problems at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab, with laughable, though frightening breaches in security, shunted Richardson out of the picture. On a Sunday TV show, Richardson defended himself by saying he had actually increased the Los Alamos security budget. He threw money at the problem. Now Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is on the hot seat for federal policies that may have fueled the wild fires ravaging Montana.