{"id":193922,"date":"2008-11-06T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/06\/obama-cabinet-update\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:10:00","slug":"obama-cabinet-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/06\/obama-cabinet-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Cabinet Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Rubin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=a.T1Wv5QZHRU\">does not want to serve as treasury secretary<\/a>, which I see as a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing we need is another Wall Street insider handling this.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmbo is in as chief of staff.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a8fU4A_7WOy8\">Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama&#8217;s offer that he be chief of staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hate his politics, but like his partisanship, and the fact that he is a hard ass.  As gatekeeper to the resident, I think that he will make it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">harder<\/span> for people bleating about bipartisanship to get face time with the president elect.<\/p>\n<p>One development that surprises me is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aPf45MBp9E.w\">Barney Frank is strongly pushing for Sheila Bair, currend FDIC chair, to have a role<\/a>.  She did a good job with IndyMac, but she&#8217;s a Bushie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Rubin does not want to serve as treasury secretary, which I see as a good thing. The last thing we need is another Wall Street insider handling this. Rahmbo is in as chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama&#8217;s offer that he be chief of staff. I hate his politics, but like his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193922"}],"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=193922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}