westernfrontamerica.com - 12/24/2008
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I was recently asked, in my capacity as a negotiations coach, what was my opinion of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s bailout. I am completely opposed to it, but for a reason that politicians and the media have not discussed. Detroit’s auto manufacturers always employed flawed concepts when ...
Negotiating With Themselves
motherjones.com 1/5/2009 — NEGOTIATING WITH THEMSELVES.... Paul Krugman surveys the current political scene and wonders if Barack Obama is going to be undone by his insistence on bipartisanship: Here
First thoughts: Negotiating time
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 2/11/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Negotiating time: This is Susan Collins’, Olympia Snowe’s, and Arlen Specter’s world, and we’re all just lucky to live in it, right? With House and Senate negotiators working with the White House ...
Bush strips collective bargaining rights from federal employees.
thinkprogress.org 12/2/2008 — Yesterday, President Bush issued an executive order “that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security.” 900 of the ...
Negotiating the Obama Way
behindbluelines.com 5/8/2009 — And now for something completely different. Entitled, ‘President Obama Hosts a Dinner for Chrysler’s Creditors’.
From Director Blue, via Instapundit. I almost soiled myself laughing. An adaptation based on De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’.
Enjoy.
The Negotiating Partner
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/6/2009 — By Brian Beutler
Quoting Dave Weigel in full:
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed by the House and now being considered by the Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly ...
Obama's Price is Right Negotiating Strategy?
fivethirtyeight.com 1/11/2009 — So it turns out that the Senate Democrats are not entirely happy about the Obama administration's proposal to spend "only" $800 billion or so on the economic stimulus package, about $300 billion of which would be devoted to tax cuts. Not just any ...