committee will have a sling of questions and those will be answered or ignored. so what do we know about mhi? skills does he bring for the job? there is not a lot of people who are chomping at the bit to go work in the white house. that s really a good point and it s a lot like when the president lost john dowd how long it seemed to take for somebody to step forward and be willing to be his lawyer. pat was advising the president s personal legal team. the president has a few months to get comfortable with him and now this fellow will be the white house counsel in an official role representing the white house. what do we know about him? he s a conservative christian activist and god father to laura ingraham at fox news and a person who s really involved in waging war against regulatory