More from the people who brought you Mike Brown and Harriet Miers

Talis Coberg, the Alaska Attorney General who was appointed by Sarah Palin,  is (unsurprisingly) wildly unqualified for his job.  Before being appointed Attorney General, he was a solo practicioner of workers comp law in Palmer, Alaska, a town of under 7,000 residents.  

According to an Alaskan journalist- 

When news of his nomination reached Anchorage, to the man and woman, I and every other lawyer of my acquaintance said, “Talis who?” No one, and I mean no one (other than the few attorneys who practice in Wasilla), had ever heard of the fellow.