It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's - Jared Kushner!

On her show tonight, Rachel Maddow says that 36-year-old New York real estate developer Jared Kushner has responsibility for:
- peace in the Middle East
- China
- Canada
- Mexico (including The Wall)
- international trade deals
- White House Office of American Innovation (SWAT team of business leaders)
- reimagining Veterans Affairs
- developing "transformative projects" under the $1 trillion infrastructure program
- modernizing the technology and data infrastructure of every federal department and agency
- national broadband policy
- handling the opioid crisis

Being a devout practicing Jew, Kushner takes Saturdays off. Maddow hopes preparing his testimony before Congress (concerning his contacts with Soviet Ambassador Kislyak and a shady Russian bank) won't cut too deeply into his time on those other little projects. If it becomes too onerous, of course, he can always take a break skiing at Aspen for a week.

UPDATE: Just learned from Stephen Colbert that Kushner has been appointed as head of the Bureau of Obvious Nepotism.

You know he has great business ideas like: Being born into a wealthy real estate family, or 'marrying' into a wealthy real estate family. Why hasn't the government tried that?

Simon Maloy says in Slate:

Innovation! What a concept. And who better to head up a team of business innovators and power brokers than Jared Kushner, a child of privilege who inherited his father’s real estate business and fell ass backward into a position of authority? Kushner will take the lessons he learned from being born rich and marrying the right person and use them to disrupt the American government.

Digby at Hullabaloo cites an anonymous State Department staffer:

They think Jared can do everything. It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve served. The family rules everything, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs knows nothing.