meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 11/25/2008
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One thing that I haven't seen: work more closely with Obama's transitional economics team than an outgoing president usually does. Everything I've seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entirely classy. But right now, classy is not enough. The more ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W.
Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel
to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ...
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
thinkprogress.org - 11/26/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Last night on MSNBC Rachel Maddow highlighted a
report from the Wall Street Journal that said that
President Bush is unlikely to pardon any officials involved in engineering or executing the Bush administration’s torture program. According to ...
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Turley: By Refusing To Pardon Torture Officials, Bush Is ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/26/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
There is, to say the least, a lot
of jumping to conclusions about just which type of
President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he'll govern from the left or the center. This speculation has been principally based on his cabinet ...
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Obama's Agenda & The Difference Between Tactics & Strategy
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MEGAN MCARDLE: “Everything I’ve seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entire…
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... MEGAN MCARDLE: “Everything I’ve seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entirely classy. But right now, classy is not enough. The more publicly he is seen to coordinate with the Obama team, the more reassuring it will be to markets. And it’s up to the Bush administration to push this–the Obama team can’t do so without looking panicky, and spreading that panic to others.” ...
Are You There, Failure? It’s Me, Megan
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What should Bush do now?
One thing that I haven’t seen: work more closely with Obama’s transitional economics team than an outgoing president usually does.
Everything I’ve seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entirely classy. But right now, classy is not enough. The more publicly he is seen to coordinate with the Obama team, the more reassuring it will be to markets.
As usual, ‘markets’ is a word that McArdle uses to denote a big economic thingy of no fixed ...
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