Gladfly was stunned by all the puff pieces written on the occasion of Secretary Spellings’s first anniversary in office (see here, for instance). But we almost fainted when we walked by a newsstand the other day and glimpsed her picture on the cover of Yoga Journal. As we learn from the feature article, YJ was impressed with the Secretary’s balance (she’s juggling a tough job and raising a family, after all), but especially with her flexibility. “Implementing a complicated federal law in a way that meets the demands of states from Alaska to Alabama takes core inner strength,” YJ explains. “But Margaret Spellings understands: bend or break.” What’s more, rumor has it that she’ll grace the cover of Cosmo this fall, wearing her hot-pink State of the Union dress. Lots of money gets wasted in the U.S. Department of Education, but clearly communications guru Kevin Sullivan is worth his weight in gold.
“The Secretary of Flexibility,” Yoga Journal, April 2006