President-elect Barack Obama is often cautious to remind reporters that there is only one president at a time — and for the record, it’s still, sigh, President George W. Bush — but as far as the nation’s governors are concerned, Obama is the guy to talk to.
Obama is scheduled More…
In 1936, the Republican Party nominated for vice president an uncompromising critic of the New Deal named Frank Knox. A veteran of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, Knox attained prominence as a Chicago newspaperman, branding Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s economic agenda “alien and un-American” and repeatedly proclaiming its failure.
Four years later, More…
The Obama-Biden transition team today released its first monthly list disclosing the names of donors to the transition and the size of their contributions. The list can be found here.
As of November 15, the transition has raised $1,170,937.44 from 1,776 donors, for an average donation of More…
President-elect Barack Obama took a question on his “team of rivals” at a press conference in Chicago this morning, where, as Matt DeLong notes, Obama officially tapped Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Sec. of Defense Robert Gates to join his Cabinet.
After unveiling his economic team last week, President-elect Barack Obama signaled the No. 2 priority of the new administration today when, as expected, he named his picks to fill the top tier of his national security team.
The team includes:
While liberal critics sound increasingly uneasy with President-elect Barack Obama’s nominations of centrist, Clinton-era Democrats to Cabinet positions, some are overlooking how Obama has also been assembling a tight progressive cadre to serve with him in the White House.
Progressive blogs are buzzing about Obama’s Cabinet picks, including big-name hires More…
MSNBC reports that barring last minute changes, Timothy Geithner, a career Treasury official under three administrations, is likely going to serve as the next secretary of the Treasury Dept.
The news that President-elect Barack Obama may pick his national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, for secretary of commerce raises a couple of questions.
Pritzker, a Chicago billionaire and hotel heiress, was a major contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign and ran his record-breaking fund-raising juggernaut. More…
Few would argue that, if the Newsweek report is true, Eric Holder is unqualified for the post of attorney general in the Obama administration. After all, Holder is a former Reagan-appointed judge, federal prosecutor, deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, and he even More…
If you’ve been suffering withdrawals from seeing President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain together in news reports in the last week, you’re in luck! The Obama-Biden transition team announced today that the two former rivals are scheduled to take a meeting Monday in Chicago. Transition spokesperson Stephanie Cutter released More…
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