Seeing Green is applying for a job with the Bush administration. Wish him luck, read this excerpt. and read more here.

I mean, how hard can it be to work for this man?

Firstly, you don’t have to be competent, as shown by an endless stream of ne’er-d-wells who have been appointed to all kinds of federal agencies they had no experience with, from the EPA to the much-derided Federal Emergency Management Agency. So right there I’m OK, though I may have to downplay my ability to solve problems and write a coherent sentence longer than ten words. That should be easy.

Secondly, you don’t have to pretend objectivity or not having conflict of interest. Any number of corporate flacks have been appointed to agencies that they were battling before they joined it, and, in turn, have brought their own chosen friends aboard. In this, alas, I might have to prevaricate a bit. Not having worked in the vast unwashed corporate sector for a long while, I would have to make up interests with which I can be in conflict. Perhaps I can say I was a factory farmer, which should get me a job in the Farm Agency