Comments on: A Few Requests for President-elect Obama http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: replcia handbags http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-46338 replcia handbags Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:37:49 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-46338 I love this article , Very good collection of information,thanks. So, some tip about this issue are welcome and really sorry if my question is very simple. I love this article , Very good collection of information,thanks.
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]]> By: MJ http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-10095 MJ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:58 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-10095 I am a big R and supporter of McCain and I'll tell you, I'd rather have an Obama cabinet made up of a unified team that works rather than one that has a few token republicans thrown in as symbol of bipartisanship. Bush made a massive mistake appointing moderate Republicans (Powell, Whitman to name a few) when he had no apparent intention of including them in the inner circle or forcing others to include them. While you could convince me that Obama would give R's access, whether or not the others would work well with them is a long shot. I am a big R and supporter of McCain and I'll tell you, I'd rather have an Obama cabinet made up of a unified team that works rather than one that has a few token republicans thrown in as symbol of bipartisanship. Bush made a massive mistake appointing moderate Republicans (Powell, Whitman to name a few) when he had no apparent intention of including them in the inner circle or forcing others to include them. While you could convince me that Obama would give R's access, whether or not the others would work well with them is a long shot.

]]> By: Dion Almaer http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9744 Dion Almaer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9744 Another one. Don't stop twittering and using the social network now you are in. Get back on it, and proof that you are going to be more transparent as promised. Use your DIRECT channel to people to bypass the press to share WHY you veto a bill. Another one. Don't stop twittering and using the social network now you are in. Get back on it, and proof that you are going to be more transparent as promised. Use your DIRECT channel to people to bypass the press to share WHY you veto a bill.

]]> By: Manish Vachharajani http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9761 Manish Vachharajani Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9761 What is baffling about the pork dynamics in congress? It is the currency of congress -- if you want my support, you'll have to give me something I want. What I want is probably unrelated to the bill at hand and so on goes a piece of pork. In fact, I think the more difficult proposition is to eliminate pork. If I give up my pork (not that I benefit from any direct government handouts) but you don't then I am hurt and get no benefit. It is only if we eliminate most or all pork that we benefit -- there is no incremental path to eliminating pork that I see. Perhaps your suggestion for Obama would be a good start to changing things by shaming congress into behaving better. Call me cynical, but I don't think shame over spending is a big motivator on Capitol Hill. What is baffling about the pork dynamics in congress? It is the currency of congress — if you want my support, you'll have to give me something I want. What I want is probably unrelated to the bill at hand and so on goes a piece of pork.

In fact, I think the more difficult proposition is to eliminate pork. If I give up my pork (not that I benefit from any direct government handouts) but you don't then I am hurt and get no benefit. It is only if we eliminate most or all pork that we benefit — there is no incremental path to eliminating pork that I see.

Perhaps your suggestion for Obama would be a good start to changing things by shaming congress into behaving better. Call me cynical, but I don't think shame over spending is a big motivator on Capitol Hill.

]]> By: hockeydino http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9766 hockeydino Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9766 1. It would be better to apppoint quality republicans, rather than high profile ones, the same applies for the left side of the house.. 2. This will never happen...not with a Democratic congress, who lives and breathes by pork. There's always HOPE. 3. Albright was a joke. I certainly hope he apppoints members not of her caliber. 1. It would be better to apppoint quality republicans, rather than high profile ones, the same applies for the left side of the house..

2. This will never happen…not with a Democratic congress, who lives and breathes by pork. There's always HOPE.

3. Albright was a joke. I certainly hope he apppoints members not of her caliber.

]]> By: Steve Place http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9768 Steve Place Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9768 Another request: keep Bob Gates on, at least until major operations have ceased in Iraq Oh yeah, and kill of GM. It's time. Another request: keep Bob Gates on, at least until major operations have ceased in Iraq

Oh yeah, and kill of GM. It's time.

]]> By: Manish Vachharajani http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9769 Manish Vachharajani Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9769 Apologies for doubting being baffled about pork, I too am now baffled by pork dynamics. Consider this quote from the Politics of Pork by Scott Frisch: "During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt summoned the congressional leadership for a top secret meeting on the need for an atomic bomb. All the members voted to put aside petty concerns. Then Senator Kenneth McKellar, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, spoke up: 'Mr. President, I agree that the future of civilization may depend on the success of this project. Where in Tennessee are we going to build it?' So Oak Ridge National Laboratory was created. ... - Rep. George Brown, D-CA (1993)" Wow. Apologies for doubting being baffled about pork, I too am now baffled by pork dynamics. Consider this quote from the Politics of Pork by Scott Frisch:

"During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt summoned the congressional leadership for a top secret meeting on the need for an atomic bomb. All the members voted to put aside petty concerns. Then Senator Kenneth McKellar, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, spoke up: 'Mr. President, I agree that the future of civilization may depend on the success of this project. Where in Tennessee are we going to build it?' So Oak Ridge National Laboratory was created. … – Rep. George Brown, D-CA (1993)"

Wow.

]]> By: Jed Christiansen http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9770 Jed Christiansen Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9770 Bob Sutton of Stanford had written about your point #3, and came up with a description that really resonated with me. Wisdom is "strong opinions, weakly held." It seems to say the very same thing; be confident in your opinions, but be willing to change easily based on evidence. More on his blog here: <a href="http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html " target="_blank">http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/st...</a> Definitely disagree on Republicans in the Cabinet (and would be very surprised if it didn't happen). I'm cynical about vetoing pork; unfortunately it seems that politicians (and fundamentally their constituents) will always require at least a little bit of pork to get anything decent done. Bob Sutton of Stanford had written about your point #3, and came up with a description that really resonated with me.

Wisdom is "strong opinions, weakly held."

It seems to say the very same thing; be confident in your opinions, but be willing to change easily based on evidence.

More on his blog here:
http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/st…

Definitely disagree on Republicans in the Cabinet (and would be very surprised if it didn't happen). I'm cynical about vetoing pork; unfortunately it seems that politicians (and fundamentally their constituents) will always require at least a little bit of pork to get anything decent done.

]]> By: Steve Place http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-9772 Steve Place Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2008/11/a-few-requests-for-president-elect-obama.html#comment-9772 *off. Sorry. *off. Sorry.

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