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See if this sounds familiar: an ambitious and risky undertaking carried out with hubris, and featuring the weeding out of anyone who raises alarm bells, little-to-no transparency or accountability, and the deliberate manufacturing of ambiguity so that if -- when -- it all falls to pieces, the excuse "who could have known?" can be used. Is it Iraq? Fannie Mae? Citigroup? Bernie Madoff? The correct answer is: all of the above. It's amazing how much these debacles have in common. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? In fact, when historians look for a name that sums up the Bush II years, they could do worse than calling them The "Who Could Have Known?" Era.
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Kennedy's first move was to pick up the phone and start working the elites, then hire a political fixer whose specialty is deceiving voters.
Questions about inexperience and nepotism are circulating about Caroline, which shouldn't come as a surprise: no Kennedy has ever gone for his or her first elected office without such talk.
In a sport Obama loves, there is an analogy which captures the changes needed at the Department of Defense. For DOD to equip itself for 21st century threats it needs to learn to be both the big man and the point guard.
Discussing good works is fine, but what counts will be values-driven decision-making that puts the communal good, good works and good results at the top of the agenda.
With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame game for the troubled auto industry and the failed bailout deal.
The mainstream media enables Rove to set the narrative while insulating him from questions that touch on his own criminality.
In an extraordinary press conference yesterday, Obama conveyed a sense that our new government is about to lead us out of our long and hapless wanderings in the desert of fossil fuel enslavement.
Housing prices and government revenues will come down and businesses will function again on principals, not mass-mingled derivatives of derivatives. In the process, there will be economic pain such as we have never seen.
Caroline Kennedy would bring to Washington not just star power but a fresh, untarnished personality and a sharp, unconventional intellect.
Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.
Though Obama singled out children as particularly in need of access to the Internet, he could also have pointed to the economic, geographic and racial dimensions of the digital divide.
In 2008, during the biggest financial news story since 1929, the credibility of the Wall Street Journal's ed page coughed, sputtered, and collapsed.
It's important for me to recognize the huge army of the most talented young workers who filled important roles at every level of the campaign.
Even before Inauguration Day Obama has made perhaps the most crucial decision of his presidency. This fundamental choice reflects not a position on a single issue but in establishing a process.
I'm starting to think that potential buyers of the former site of the dog fighting house of horrors are just the kind of folks who buy star maps out here in Los Angeles to find and stalk celebrities.
Obama, while introducing his green team today, made a point that he intends to make "again and again: There is not a contradiction between economic growth and sound environmental practices."
Rice is the administration poster girl for all that went wrong: style over substance, image over reality, politics over progress and most damaging of all -- the unwavering refusal of accountability.
Commit 12 to 18 months of your life to an effort that may very well be in vain, and if you win, you get to spend six years where"success" is synonymous with "legislative obstruction."
