Is This Any Way To Run A Transition?

The Stiletto Blog ^ | August 26, 2009 | The Stiletto

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Back in January, Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, confidently opined, “Obama’s transition has unspooled in much the same way his campaign did: smoothly, calmly, and on time.” Mind you, this was almost two weeks after the Richardson debacle.

Exactly a month after Hertzberg’s assessment, the New York Times observed: “President Obama blasted through all sorts of speed records pushing a $787 billion economic plan through Congress, arguing it was too urgent to wait. But even after signing it into law Tuesday, he faces another problem: virtually no one is in place at his cabinet departments to actually spend a lot of the money.” ...

Obama was in such a frenzy to appoint czars and envoys, that more than seven months since he took office, “just 43 percent" of those 500 senior policymaking posts have been filled, reports The New York Times ...

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