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Wow, is the Breitbart/Sherrod/Vilsack story a Golconda of learnable moments, or what? Let us count the ways: (1) At some point, USDA was justifying firing Sherrod by proudly pointing to its “zero-tolerance” policy on racism. ‘Zero defects’ is a management slogan with some utility as a goal in quality assurance, actually a restatement of ‘continuous [...]
Archive for the ‘The Obama Presidency’ Category
July 9th, 2010
Now that Bob Bennett has been rudely evicted by his own state party, could he actually vote for cloture once in a while?
January 7th, 2010
Category: Terrorism and its control, The Obama Presidency
The President hit what seemed to me the right notes: He reviewed the bidding: The information was in hand, but didn’t get sent around and acted on, not because individuals didn’t do their jobs, but because the process was ill-designed. He announced new countermeasures, both in the intelligence process and in the screening process. He [...]
August 16th, 2009
Making Whole Foods hurt where it lives will probably require some picketing — wouldn’t it nice if the White House had an operation devoted to organizing communities on his behalf?
May 18th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington, Law Notes, Politics and Leadership, The Obama Presidency, Torture
Has Barack Obama deliberately hung Dawn Johnsen out to dry?
April 22nd, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control, The Obama Presidency
The Obama release of the OLC torture memos will ultimately result in discovery of the full record related to Bush administration torture, and possibly to legal jeopardy for some Bush administration officials. It’s fine if this process proceeds without the active participation of Obama administration policy makers and political operatives.
April 2nd, 2009
Category: The Obama Presidency
A strong advocate for poor and working Americans comes to Treasury.
March 12th, 2009
Category: The Obama Presidency
Why has no one mentioned the most obvious person to fill a high position at Treasury?
