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bobbyw24
08-09-2010, 01:36 PM
What’s the matter with Washington? In a remarkably detailed and nuanced 10,000-word article, Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum attempts to answer that question. Using history as his backdrop, Purdum spends a day inside the West Wing and talks to Obama’s top aides, who tell him about the challenges of playing the Beltway game, ugly as it has become, even as their boss insists they find a way to transcend it.

“There’s a relentlessness to this that’s unlike anything else, especially when you come into office in a time of crisis,” says Obama senior adviser David Axelrod. “We did not exactly ease into the tub. The world is so much smaller, and events reverberate much more quickly, and one person can create an event so quickly from one computer terminal.”

Larry Summers, who served as Clinton’s Treasury secretary for the last 18 months of his term, says, “It used to be there was a kind of rhythm to the day” with the tempo picking up after the markets closed and as newspaper deadlines approached, between four and seven P.M. “That’s gone.” And, according to Rahm Emanuel, C.I.A. director Leon Panetta thinks “it’s a huge problem” that Washington runs at such “a highly caffeinated speed.”

Emanuel calls it “Fucknutsville,” and Valerie Jarrett says she looks back wistfully to a time when credible people could put a stamp of reliability on information and opinion: “Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.

It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/08/can-washington-be-fixed.html

Jeremy
08-09-2010, 01:38 PM
Poor babies.

jkr
08-09-2010, 01:39 PM
says thier cheif

Aratus
08-09-2010, 01:48 PM
mitch mcconnell's horse trader politico game can be compared to henry clay's quite favorably?
the administration people are now realizing d.c still functions like either the early or late 1800s
even though the gov't has gone internet and heartily computerized? mcconnell's touch is softer
than the stasis field eye of newt gridlock of the mid-1990s in that mitch LIKEs trade!offs + deals?

Brian Defferding
08-09-2010, 01:49 PM
It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum.

Well then, maybe if you don't constantly pass bills that give your jobs more authority, you could leave the people, the states and the local governments to make those decisions for ya there, Ex Lax.

Fredom101
08-09-2010, 01:56 PM
Emanuel is an outright sociopath (as opposed to other pol's who hide their sociopathy a little better).

lester1/2jr
08-09-2010, 02:04 PM
"It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size."

haha

NYgs23
08-09-2010, 02:30 PM
Washington is Fucknutsville and Rahm's one of the biggest fucknuts on the branch.

Old Ducker
08-09-2010, 02:35 PM
walter cronkite would get on and say the truth

lol!

YouTube - ‪Hillary and Walter Cronkite - Not JBS - For World Government‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaS6bLQixkM)

Vessol
08-09-2010, 02:41 PM
lol!

YouTube - ‪Hillary and Walter Cronkite - Not JBS - For World Government‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaS6bLQixkM)

I've heard a lot of bad things about Walter Cronkite, but god damn. That's damning...I never knew he was that much of a globalist.

BetaMale
08-09-2010, 02:44 PM
Poor babies.

haha, Boo-freaking-hoo!


“Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.

And not believe mainstream media is a bad thing how?

Romulus
08-09-2010, 02:55 PM
He should know - it's a reflection of them.

KurtBoyer25L
08-09-2010, 04:59 PM
I have said for years that our Presidents do NOT wake up in the morning, twiddle their handlebar mustaches, say "How can I enslave or hurt or drop bombs on innocent people today" and go running off to jangly piano music to tie women up to train tracks. They are normal career politician types who are talented at campaigning, experts at brokering corrupt deals, and caught up in the false security that comes with power. Not evil. Just deluded.

Isaac Bickerstaff
08-10-2010, 11:07 AM
No, pretty sure they're evil.

Acala
08-10-2010, 11:57 AM
This is what happens when you relentlessly grab power but have no guiding principles for making decisions. With no guiding principles, each question that arises must be evaluated from the ground up, taking into account all the pressure groups, behind the scenes deals, future strategic positioning, likely media and public reception and so on. It takes an army of adminstrators working full time, making up policy on the fly, changing their minds from day to day, and screwing it up constantly.

The job of the President envisioned by the Constitution and guided by an understanding of liberty would be pastoral.

Aratus
08-10-2010, 11:59 AM
rahm's choise expletive deleated vocabulary is evidently equal to richard nixon's

TonySutton
08-10-2010, 12:01 PM
Yeah, life sucks when you do not have principles to guide you.