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The LA Times has an interesting piece today on Paulson’s botched sales job on the bailout/rescue package. (h/t Yglesias).
Clearly, the White House’s strategy here was tin-eared. Not only did it not reach out to interest groups and Congress, but it wrote a plan that just gave the Executive untrammeled and unreviewable authority to [...]
Archive for the ‘The Post-Modern Presidency’ Category
October 1st, 2008
Category: Garbage pail, The Post-Modern Presidency
June 25th, 2007
Category: Feeling Safer Yet?, GWB, the Beloved Leader, Terrorism and its control, The Post-Modern Presidency
Finishing up John Lewis Gaddis’ The Cold War: A New History, a passage on the Marshall Plan resonated with me, in chilling fashion.
Gaddis observes (pp. 103-104) that the exhausted Soviet Union could never have competed with the Americans in resuscitating European economies after the Second World War:
The Americans had another advantage, however, that had nothing [...]
August 29th, 2006
Category: The Post-Modern Presidency
It goes back to Reagan, says a correspondent. But it’s worse now, say I.
