powerlineblog.com - 11/26/2008
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With confirmation that Bob Gates will stay on as Secretary of Defense, it now appears that the Obama administration will represent a continuation of Bush-era policies on taxes, response to the current financial crisis, and national security policy, including Iraq. There are still, of course, ...
thewashingtonnote.com - 11/26/2008
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thewashingtonnote.com —
Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which
has been quite clear for some time). I had...
moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role "Out-Cheneying Cheney" in the last couple of ...
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Robert Gates: Should He Have Stayed?
mudvillegazette.com - 11/26/2008
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mudvillegazette.com —
First, your U.S. history trivia for the day:
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War...
Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican. ***** And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico ...
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Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/26/2008
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From NBC's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- In response
to criticism that he is departing from his promise...
to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would ...
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Obama: Change comes from me
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Hot Air » Top Picks —
... thinks that Obama will mostly follow the Bush model in economic policy, and speculates that this is more evidence that Obama himself was the entire scope of the change he promised, and that he alone is “the One we have been waiting for”. Thus far, given the lack of change at Defense, the inclusion of so many Clinton-era officials in his incoming administration, a Scowcroftian foreign policy, and a Greenspan-admiring economic team, it’s hard to see how Obama is screwing us. In fact, the only ones who got screwed thus far were the far-Left groups that bought into the Hope and ...
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politico.com 11/26/2008 — Mike Allen and ABC report that, as expected, Obama will keep Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.
There's a lot of logic to the move: It puts a Republican, as promised, in a top slot; it prevents Obama from taking the blame, immediately, for whatever ...
Gates Likely to Stay Defense Secretary
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swamppolitics.com 11/26/2008 — by Frank James
It's being widely reported that President-elect Barack Obama has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on at the Pentagon and that Gates has agreed.
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