Tag Archives: White House

The Mini-Great Personnel Exodus

August 6, 2009 – 5:00 pm

I didn’t expect that so many people would be leaving the Obama Administration so soon. And yet, as my latest column for the New Ledger points out, that’s precisely what they are doing.

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Leaving So Soon? Obama’s Crew Jumps Ship

August 6, 2009 – 8:50 am

Personnel departures from an Administration are not supposed to take place en masse until either the end of a one-term Presidency, or well into the second term, when it is clear that the President in question is a lame duck. But as with so many other subjects, when it comes to personnel, the Obama Administration is breaking new ground.

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Toxic Assets and the New Immortal Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

August 6, 2009 – 8:40 am

Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Thursday, August 6th edition of Coffee and Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast concerns Tim Geithner, Hank Paulson, and the planned remake of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Why Did Sarah Palin Resign? Three Possible Reasons And More

July 4, 2009 – 1:47 am

The editors and colleagues of The New Ledger weigh in on Sarah Palin’s shocking announcement that she will resign the governorship of Alaska: three possible reasons why she did it, what Republicans should take from the media assaults that led to her decision, and an answer to whether she’s got any shot at the presidency.

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South Korea Comes to the White House

June 16, 2009 – 12:34 am

When has the conventional wisdom been as wrong about anything as it has been about North Korea? Its narrative has long held that, if we can set aside distractions like North Korea’s cheating on past agreements and its atrocities toward its own people, our diplomats can come to an accommodation based on the mutual recognition of peaceful coexistence. The events of this year have destroyed that narrative. No matter how many variations of coexistence we offer North Korea, North Korea will not coexist with us.

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At Last, A Firing

May 8, 2009 – 9:19 pm

The White House has finally acted to hold someone accountable for the unacceptable, recent, low-altitude Presidential plane flyover in New York:

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