Tony Raimondo

One of former Nebraska Governor and current US Senator Ben Nelson's closest political allies is Tony Raimondo, whom President Bush had planned to nominate as the Commerce Department's "manufacturing czar" until Democrats on Capital Hill started heaping slander on his good name. Geitner Simmons has a quick and telling entry on Raimondo in real life and what happened to him in the Beltway funhouse. (link via Instapundit)