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Archive for the ‘Barack Obama’ Category
November 29th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Barack Obama, Politics and Leadership
Posted: Monday, November 29th, 2010 at
11:05 pm
25 Comments »
November 29th, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama
Except as political showmanship, there’s nothing to be said for a freeze on Federal salaries. The President’s call for such a freeze was lousy negotiating strategy, lousy public management, and lousy fiscal policy.
Posted: Monday, November 29th, 2010 at
9:16 pm
7 Comments »
November 29th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Barack Obama, Politics and Leadership
It sure looks like it.
Posted: Monday, November 29th, 2010 at
3:30 pm
20 Comments »
November 14th, 2010
by Harold Pollack
Category: Barack Obama, MSM (mainstream media)
Frank Rich’s column today seems correlated with something I wrote. But with writing by lots of other people too. That’s the nature of the op-ed beast.
Posted: Sunday, November 14th, 2010 at
4:22 pm
10 Comments »
November 11th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
If Obama insists on unsubscribing from us, we can unsubscribe from him.
Posted: Thursday, November 11th, 2010 at
12:01 pm
17 Comments »
November 11th, 2010
by Harold Pollack
The apparent cave in on Bush tax cuts for the wealthy is the most depressing episode of the Obama presidency.
Posted: Thursday, November 11th, 2010 at
8:40 am
14 Comments »
October 22nd, 2010
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama
Barack Obama tells gay teens: that their difference is a source of strength and pride.
Posted: Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at
10:47 am
4 Comments »
October 3rd, 2010
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama
I am puzzled by the decision to make Pete Rouse an “Interim” White House Chief of Staff. It’s nothing about Rouse — he’s supremely qualified — it’s about designating such a powerful post as “interim”. An interim appointment keeps the palace intrigue going over who will ultimately get the job and will limit Rouse’s effectiveness. [...]
Posted: Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at
7:12 am
1 Comment »
September 7th, 2010
by Jonathan Zasloff
Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten: if you want to attract loyalty from your base, it’s probably best not to go out of your way to humiliate them.
Posted: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at
2:40 pm
15 Comments »
August 30th, 2010
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama, Health and Medicine
Working in the Executive Office of the President is a great honor, but it’s also a sacrifice in many ways, not least in terms of physical health. I write about this at length at the Stanford University School of Medicine blog today. I hope RBCers will find Stanford’s SCOPE blog of more general interest as [...]
Posted: Monday, August 30th, 2010 at
11:54 am
14 Comments »
