outsidethebeltway.com - 3/13/2009
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H. Rodgin Cohen, “the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration,” George Stephanoupoulous reports. He adds, “Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette ...
thedailybeast.com - 3/13/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
Bill Richardson The president s staffing nightmares began
with Bill Richardson, the erstwhile Commerce nominee, who has...
told confidants that he was promised the secretary of State job. Now, with looming investigations and sinking polls, Richardson may ...
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The Man Obama Double-Crossed
obsidianwings.blogs.com - 3/12/2009
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by hilzoy Dr. Helen has put up a
video about 'Going John Galt' on PJTV, in which...
she interviews three people who claim to be Going Galt. (To see the relevant bit, follow the link , click the arrow to the right of the blue segment bar just below ...
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Going John Galt: The Video!
blogs.dailymail.com - 3/17/2009
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The Oregonian: “A Portland school principal (banned) a
boy from performing while wearing it at his elementary...
school talent show after deciding the rubber likeness of the 44th president was ‘inappropriate and potentially ...
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Maybe It Is Working After All
Balloon Juice —
The emerging conventional wisdom is that the appointments process is broken:
H. Rodgin Cohen, “the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration,” George Stephanoupoulous reports. He adds, “Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth.”
Something’s wrong with this picture.
Maybe there is something to that. On the other hand, this is a description of H. Rodgin Cohen at Naked ...
Thomas de Zengotita: Why Can't Poor Tim Geithner Staff Up At Treasury? A Scandal That Calls For Diogenes?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... There has been a lot of chatter about how the unprecedented rigor of the vetting process is responsible for these delays. But the flip side of that is this: could it be that the elite class of American experts on the economy--in business, in government, in academia--does not contain one honest man or woman who can step up to the mark and simply say: I'm clean? No nanny hired off the books, no illegal aliens mowing my lawn, no taxable favors from this or that powerful sponsor or friend? ...
Barack Obama, Czars And The Great Unknown
Swampland —
... by the group Taxpayers for Common Sense. It is difficult to divine the method TCS used to compile this list. It chooses 32 people, out of the more than 3,000 political appointees in the executive branch, of which ...
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swamppolitics.com 2/2/2009 — by Christi Parsons
Sen. Judd Gregg has assured Republican leadership that he won't take the job as Commerce secretary unless he's certain his replacement in the Senate will line up with the GOP caucus.
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huffingtonpost.com 2/27/2009 —
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CNN Political Ticker 3/13/2009
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