Yves here. While most Americans who follow politics know that the appointment of ambassadors includes quite a few patronage postings, few follow the sausage-making on that beat. This post fills that lapse, and shows the cooking is as rotten as you’d expect. And dispatching to Rahm to Japan makes perfect sense, in a sick sort of way. The Japanese are not know nfor racial tolerance, so misdeeds against people of color on his watch would not register with them as an issue. By Max Moran, a research director for the personnel team at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)’s Revolving Door Project, which aims to increase scrutiny on executive branch appointments. Produced in partnership by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute