{"id":193394,"date":"2008-12-18T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/18\/obama-staffing-update-5\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T23:34:00","slug":"obama-staffing-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/18\/obama-staffing-update-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Staffing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Kirk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/58064.html\">US Trade Representative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that I&#8217;ve had some experience with the guy.  I lived in Arlington while this guy was mayor of Dallas, and he is an unbelievably big corporate whore&#8230;.Which, given the role of trade rep, may make him <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">remarkably<\/span> qualified for the post.<\/p>\n<p>There is an open seat on the Federal Reserve, and Daniel Tarullo <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/americasIpoNews\/idUKN1837413220081218\">will be named for it<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Two interesting points here, he is not an economist, and he is a part of the Center for American Progress, which means that he has good liberal credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA), <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/12\/18\/calif_congresswoman_solis_tapp.html?hpid=topnews\">Secretary of Labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is probably one of the 10 most pro-labor members of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Kirk, US Trade Representative. I would note that I&#8217;ve had some experience with the guy. I lived in Arlington while this guy was mayor of Dallas, and he is an unbelievably big corporate whore&#8230;.Which, given the role of trade rep, may make him remarkably qualified for the post. There is an open seat on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}