Howard Dean never ceases to amaze me. Just when everyone had me convinced that William Daley was an awful choice for White House Chief of Staff, along comes Howard to tell me otherwise.
He also had choice words for the staff shake-up taking place in the administration.
My favorite:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
While Obama may differ with progressives on certain policy issues, Dean said, "The core issue is the contempt, which not just the progressives were treated by but lots of people were treated by, by senior advisers around the president who have been here for 20 years and thought they knew everything and we knew nothing. That is a fundamental flaw in any kind of administration. As they say, 'Don't let the door hit you in the you-know-what on the way out.'"
And why the heck does he like the choice of Daley?
But Dean said that his ascendancy to the chief of staff role would be a positive development, in the process giving Daley the type of progressive validater that he has so far lacked.
Go figure! If he was against the health care reform and a consumer financial protection agency, how can he be any help to us?
"I don't agree with [him] on a lot of stuff politically, but I do think -- A, he is a grownup and B, he gets that you don't treat people like you know everything and they don't," said Dean. "If Bill Daley becomes the chief of staff, that is going to be a huge plus because he is outside of Washington, he sees things the way people outside Washington do. It is not a left or right issue."
ONOZ! Just like in the movie, "The Exorcist" my head is twisting.
On the other hand, Rahm didn't want Obama to take on healthcare reform and Obama did it anyway. Biden didn't want him to increase troops in Afghanistan, yet Obama did it. Bottom line, if you have a president who thinks for himself, maybe it really doesn't matter.