Damaged Goods For Sale

The FDA, hoping to go unnoticed in the current meaningless reshuffling of inter-agency irresponsibilities in the financial markets, now hopes to quietly jettison some excess and embarrassing baggage. A slightly soiled Commissioner can be had for a song(as long as its not about bridges). A very shopworn head of CDER is marked down for quick disposal, although if reason were to prevail, the FDA should pay someone to take him. Various other impedimenta of little further use, such as post-Panel Scher and Hussein will be thrown in as mere lagniappes in hopes that some thrifty purchaser can find use for unindicted co-conspirators washing effluvia out of test-tubes, an example of the Peter Principle in action. In fact, were the powers that be, clever, they would dispense with the entire agency, replacing it with hotlines to Michael and Stevie to determine which supplicants are to have their products approved.