{"id":193737,"date":"2008-11-20T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/more-obama-appointments\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:40:00","slug":"more-obama-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/more-obama-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"More Obama Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Napolitano as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1108\/15815.html\">head of DHS<\/a>.  Which means, I guess that she won&#8217;t be challenging McCain in his run for reelection to the Senate in 2 years, which is a bummer, she could beat him, and it means that the Dems won&#8217;t have a check on districting in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Also there is a report that <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/19\/pritzker_tapped_for_commerce.html\">Penny Pritzker was offered the position of Commerce Secrretary<\/a>, but that she <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/11\/20\/obama_insider_pritzker_is_fron.html\">turned it down for &#8220;business considerations.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;business considerations&#8221;, I think that they mean that her role in the Superior Bank of Chicago, which pretty much created the subprime lending model, and then failed in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that they (correctly) figured that this would engender a destructive media circus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Napolitano as head of DHS. Which means, I guess that she won&#8217;t be challenging McCain in his run for reelection to the Senate in 2 years, which is a bummer, she could beat him, and it means that the Dems won&#8217;t have a check on districting in Arizona. Also there is a report that &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-193737","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\/193737"}],"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=193737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}