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2014-01-27 Home Front: Politix

Obama's rough 2013 prompts a new blueprint

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

Even some of Obamas closest advisers acknowledged that he sometimes appeared distant in meetings before the disastrous health-care rollout in the fall.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 00:51|| 2014-01-27 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Internal White House Memo: Time for an Imperial Presidency!

Sometimes I wonder whether the Obama administrations absolute and total contempt for its most rabid supporters is based on the same thing as my absolute and total contempt for its most rabid supporters. Because lets face it: if you spent eight years screaming about Imperial Presidencies and Unitary Executives and how George Bush was a unilateralist cowboy and similar agitprop, this passage should be the equivalent of a poisoned-tipped dagger in the kidney.

Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer outlined the lessons learned in a three-page memo that Obama discussed with his Cabinet in recent weeks, according to several administration officials who have read the document.

Among its conclusions is that Obama, a former state legislator and U.S. senator, too often governed more like a prime minister than a president. In a parliamentary system, a prime minister is elected by lawmakers and thus beholden to them in ways a president is not.

As a result, Washington veterans have been brought into the West Wing to emphasize an executive style of governing that aims to sidestep Congress more often.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 02:13|| 2014-01-27 02:13|| Front Page Top

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