Rob Nabors
I was saying this morning that I found it interesting that the economic team had been announced in such detail so early. Not just a Treasury Secretary, but all the way down to a Deputy OMB Director. Meanwhile, Stan Collender says we should pay more attention to the new Deputy OMB Director:
For those of you who don’t know him, Nabors is the staff director of the House Appropriations Committee. That means that, with Nabors, the president-elect will have someone who not only can do the line-by-line review he wants (that is, after all, what the appropriations committee staff does for a living every year), he has someone who knows where every appropriated dollar is and, most important, how it got there.
This is part of a trend toward Obama building an unusually Hill-ed up administration. That starts with a President and a Vice President who’ve both moved over directly from the Senate. It continues as you ad some key staffers from both of their Senate offices to the team, and with a Chief of Staff plucked from the House leadership. Then you have people who used to be key staffers for key legislators like Henry Waxman and Max Baucus, and now you can add Nabors to that trend. It’s kind of like an ersatz parliamentary system in which the cabinet is literally made up of the key legislative players.
Meanwhile, Collender has a pizza-related suggestion:
Matthew…How about we plan a series of Pizza Public Policy (P3?) get togethers with readers at some of the places around the country everyone has recommended where we can talk politics and pepperoni?
I think this has promise. Sort of like the Kennedy School’s Pizza and Politics seminars, except with better pizza.
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November 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Oh hell yeah…How about Pizza Rustica in Ft. Lauderdale (I don’t know if it counts as great pizza, but the beach nearby has to be a selling point). In light of my local commnity, I think that the discussion should be about Middle-East policy (but US-Cuban policy would seem to apply too).
-g
November 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’m glad Matt’s come around to the point of view that a detailed staff is being assembled quickly. The other day, he was worrying it’d take too long after the inauguration because we don’t have a parliamentary system (as if Obama could get commitments from people outside his own party circle before they knew he’d be president). On the speed, it’s worth reading this in the forthcoming New York Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22170
Of course, such laudatory stuff aside, there remains questions from Matt and us all on the radically unradical slant of the administration thus far.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Sort of like the Kennedy School’s Pizza and Politics seminars, except with better pizza.
I just found out yesterday that the Kennedy School has an actual policy of never ordering from Pinocchio’s. It’s like they want their students to have inferior pizza.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
The Kennedy School’s pizza from Sodexho would be inedible if we weren’t grad students. I’d shell out the $4 to bring Pinocchio’s with me to meetings (again, if I weren’t a grad student).
November 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I actually would be extremely interested in this, though I suspect the availability of Long Island Matt Yglesias readers is limited – but forays into NYC would not be out of the question, particularly as this out-of-work public policy graduate student could use the career networking…
November 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
This is part of a trend toward Obama building an unusually Hill-ed up administration. That starts with a President and a Vice President who’ve both moved over directly from the Senate.
Yup. Will be interesting to see how this plays out… the last few (4 of 5?) transitions have been “the outsiders taking over”. Now we’ll see how the insiders do.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Those of us in Boston could totally have a P4 party (Pinocchio’s Pizza & Public Policy) just to spite KSG. Just a thought.
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