The White House announced last week that it has plans to nominate Douglas Shulman to be the next IRS commissioner. It's now been about 6 months since the last commissioner, Mark Everson, left that post, which seems like a long time for such an important agency. Shulman is now the head of a financial industry group, so I'd assume, given no contradicting evidence, that that's where his sympathies lie. The Senate must confirm his nomination. Update: Shulman has an interesting bio. Evidently he helped found Teach for America. Could it be that President Bush might nominate a middle-of-the-road candidate?