Michael Hiltzik: Zinke may soon be gone from the Interior Department, but his successor could be much, much worse
As a chapter in the lesson plan instructing you to be careful what you wish for, let us consider the case of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the ever-increasing possibility that he soon will be ousted over ethics concerns.
Recently, President Trump said that Zinke's job was safe - for the moment. But his tenure at Interior plainly is perched on a knife edge. His departure would remove from the Cabinet a member devoted to environmentally dubious oil drilling, to wasteful and foolish water projects and to feathering his own nest.
That prospect warrants taking a close look at his likeliest successor, Deputy Secretary
