If BHO is smart, some form of Parkinson’s law will assert itself after a while and he will only deal with a small inner group of less than ten. But it’s hard to see how that can happen without either a very strong hand from the emperor himself or ferocious infighting to sort out who the mini-me’s are. During the campaign he kept imagining himself as Abraham Lincoln. No doubt he’s channeling FDR now that a new “Depression” is on us and wants to recreate the Cabinet infighting of those years so that he can save us with his brilliant policies.

I believe that the once great computer company Digital Equipment held onto matrix management long after the rest of the industry had abandoned it, and succumbed because of it. No one could get through to Ken Olsen to point out that the personal computer was on its way and not a toy, this in a company that had brought down the mainframe with the minicomputer.