Readers often find in texts the meaning they bring to them. That dynamic is well under way in early reviews of veteran journalist Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men, which goes on sale Tuesday.
Ugh. Peter Orszag–Obama’s former budget director and one of the smartest domestic policy wonks I know–has taken a job with Citibank, one of the least reputable corporations I know. Jim Fallows is appropriately appalled. Unlike Jim, I know Orszag pretty well and have learned a lot from him. But this move only reinforces my growing [...]
The Associated Press reports that Jacob Lew, the deputy secretary for management at the State Department, will replace Peter Orszag as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, beating out other contenders like Laura Tyson and Gene Sperling. Jonathan Cohn, at The New Republic, offered some Who Is Lew tidbits on his blog [...]
As has long been expected, Peter Orszag’s cowboy boots will not be walking the halls of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building after next month. He is stepping down, to get married and experience life as lived by those who do not spend all day every day on call. An administration official tells me that the [...]
A Pentagon working group is now studying the issue of repealing the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that has banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military since 1993. The final report is due December 1, but Democrats in Congress do not want to wait that long to take action undoing the policy. [...]
At a news briefing today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked about funding for her agency contained within President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget. She talked about more money for community health centers, information technology, and drug and cancer research, among other priorities. But toward the end of the news conference, the AP’s Ricardo [...]
This thing is so earnest. It’s like its own Saturday Night Live parody. Hard to know whether to laugh or just feel so good about the world that you start craving an apple.
