Ted Olsen

I'm again bombarded today by news that Ted Olsen, Solicitor General, had to argue a case for the government today related to terrorism when the poor man lost his wife on 9/11.

Now, I was never a big Barbara Olsen fan. The woman spewed vile; Ann Coulter with less plastic surgery. But she didn't deserve to die that way. No one did. I'll skip, too, the irony I feel that a woman who tried so hard to torpedo the government during the Clinton years would happen to be on the plane to hit the Pentagon, when it was partly her and her husband's crew that kept the country completely distracted by the blue dress of Lewinsky's so no proper attention could be paid to the attacks that were to come.

But here's a wild suggestion re: Ted Olsen. Indeed, having his wife on one of those four planes on 9/11 would seem to represent both pain for him as well as one heck of a conflict of interest. No one could come away from that situation unprejudiced. So why is Mr. Olsen still Solicitor General?