The Latino Cabinet position?

By Ruben Navarrette (Contact)
2:00 a.m. January 14, 2009

The latest scuttlebutt surrounding Bill Richardson's decision to give up his nomination as commerce secretary is that the New Mexico governor didn't jump ship, he was pushed.

Either way, it's embarrassing to have one of Barack Obama's most prominent appointments fall apart just weeks before the inauguration.

Not that commerce secretary is a prominent position. I called the post “chopped liver,â€