Murthy just had too many strikes against him: He was an Obama appointee; he's dark-skinned (of Indian descent); he wasn't born in the United States; he actually believes in science; he created an organization, Doctors for America, "with a stated goal of improving affordable health care access." Good, GOD we have to keep people "like him" away from government! He has crazy ideas, like "TrialNetworks, a cloud-based Clinical Trial Optimization System for pharmaceutical and biotechnology trials that improves the quality and efficiency of clinical trials to bring new drugs to market faster and more safely." (Wikipedia)

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich