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Spitzer for Treasury?
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Frank Rich is right. Firing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner won't get us out of the economic disaster we're in. But at this time of righteous rage, deploying Geithner and Lawrence Summers as the... More
Submitted 12 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Beware School 'Reformers'
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Progressives are in short supply on the president-elect's list of cabinet nominees. When he turns his attention to the Education Department, what are the chances he'll choose someone who is... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |
He's Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is.
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The other shoe is dropping. Now that Hillary is feathering her nest at State, it seems likely that a flock of Democratic hawks -- or are they vultures? -- will be settling in, too. First among firsts... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Grijalva for Interior Secretary
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Now that President-elect Barack Obama has put together his administration's economic, foreign-policy and national-security teams, the transition process comes to the interesting part. Obama was,... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
UN Pick Rice: Another Wrong-on-Iraq Nominee
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On the outside chance that anyone thought that Dr. Susan Rice might be the exception to the rule of wrong-thinking that characterizes Barack Obama's foreign-policy team, well, think again. Obama's... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Don't Confuse Susan Rice with Condi
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They share the same last name, but don't confuse Susan Rice--Barack Obama's nominee as ambassador to the United Nations--with Condoleezza. My colleague John Nichols cherry picks one statement Rice... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Obama's Big Tent
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Say what you will about Barack Obama's national security team, but clearly the President-elect wasn't fibbing when he promised to bring unity to Washington. Who else could get Robert Gates, General... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Why Obama's Got "Complete Confidence" In Clinton
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So it will be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The senator from New York, who lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama because she supported authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq when... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job
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Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraq but , as he told us earlier this year, "I want to end the mindset that got us into war." So it is troubling that a man of such... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
The Right Choice at Treasury
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With all the talk of a new "Great Depression," Herbert Hoover has enjoyed an ignominious revival. On the day when Lehman Brothers winked out of existence and the simmering financial crisis boiled... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
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