Joe Klein: Democrats Need To Learn Management 101

Time:

A few days before the oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, Senator John Kerry called to talk about the big new energy bill that he is sponsoring with Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. Kerry is a committed environmentalist, and the bill he described makes good sense. It targets the biggest polluters and proposes smart incentives for alternative energy, but I found myself reacting with unexpected skepticism to the proposal.

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Comments

[thepoliticalcat]

06:50 PM on 05/07/2010

Does anyone listen to Joke Line any more? I thought he lost all credibility a long, long time ago.

[Durango]

06:44 PM on 05/06/2010

And Klein needs to get out of the Beltway and find himself a real job.

You know, one that involves sweat.

One where you don't make enough money to afford to take off work when your kids get sick.

One where you don't have health insurance, let alone a pension. And even if you had a 401K it has tanked.

Quit you job Joe. Go do real work.Find out what it is REALLY like to be an American. Not one of the privileged elite.

Then maybe, just maybe you will be qualified to pontificate.

Because as of now, you are clueless.

[rightwing927]

06:21 PM on 05/06/2010

Let's list the executive experience of the Democrat leadership...

Obama....none
Biden....none
Clinton....none

It shows. Effective management isn't something that everyone can just pick up on the fly. Despite the fact that every employee sits and looks at their management and thinks "if only I was in that position...I could do so much better". Fact is, most fail miserably. Sadly, this is what we tend to get when electing legislators to the highest executive offices.

[thepoliticalcat]

06:52 PM on 05/07/2010

Um, would you like to list the executive experience of the Bouchebag cabal, and explain why it left the country in such a mess?

[dfranz]

06:07 PM on 05/06/2010

I find it curious that Joe (Republican Apologist) Klein is telling Democrats how to manage regulation. The Republicans disassembled and weakened our Mine safety regulation, Oil production regulation, environmental protection agency, FEMA, banking regulation and consumer protection agency all in the name of smaller government. We'll be paying for their gleeful incompetence for decades.

Most of the Republican ideology is a failure from my perspective.

[Durango]

06:46 PM on 05/06/2010

Republicans didn't "disassemble and weaken" regulations.

they sold them to the highest bidder.

Blankenship got Mining regulations.

And Bernie Maddow got the SEC.

Failure? Downright catastrophe.

[Petey131]

05:28 PM on 05/06/2010

Joe who?

[swift goat pet for truth]

03:48 PM on 05/06/2010

LOL!!!

Joe Klein works for a supermarket weakly with less credibility than the National Enquirer.

And the GOP has demonstrated zero competence over the last 30 years.