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thenation.com - 11/24/2008
Is Personnel Policy?
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How much do personnel choices reflect the Obama administration's policy direction
Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic Policy Council.
thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic Policy Council.
— thinkprogress.org — Later today, President-elect Barack Obama will announce that our friend and former colleague Melody Barnes will be named as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Council “ coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White ... (more) Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic ...

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Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes, who was at CAP before I got on board, will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation for such ... (more) Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council

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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/19/2008
About that Cheney indictment...
— washingtonmonthly.com — ABOUT THAT CHENEY INDICTMENT.... At first blush, the headline looked pretty extraordinary: "Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney, Gonzales on Charges Related to Prisons." Wait, Dick Cheney's been indicted? It sounded too good to be true, in large part ... (more) About that Cheney indictment...

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The Monkey Cage:  Who Cares Whether There's An Electoral Realignment?

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Who Cares Whether There's An Electoral Realignment?
The Monkey Cage — ... Here, the chattering class’s obsession with whether the personnel of the administration are liberals or centrist technocrats seems completely beside the point (I know people have to gossip about something but they shouldn’t pretend that the something has world-historic significance when it doesn’t). As Chris Hayes points out, someone looking at the incoming Bush presidency in 2000, and extrapolating the presidency’s policy predilections from Bush’s reliance on old hands from the Ford administration, would have likely been very badly ...

It's Not About People, It's About Policy
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... recently lamented that Obama's picks for his administration are not coming from the ranks of the progressive movement. (Hayes since has qualified his initial lament.) ...

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