onehandle
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:14 PM
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It isn't going to be Governor Dean for HHS. |
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Edited on Tue Feb-03-09 01:15 PM by onehandle
Whatever the problem was between him, Obama, and the DNC. It doesn't matter.
Dr. Dean has gone into the private sector to get his due.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:15 PM
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1. do you have a link to back that up? |
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I am pretty sure that Dr.Dean would happily and competently serve
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:20 PM
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2. It's my opinion that he will not be asked. |
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His future plans are in interviews and in his Wikipedia entry.
Speeches, boards, money.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:22 PM
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4. I never understood why he had to step down from the DNC chair |
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It was he, after all, who came with the 50 states strategy that gave us both the White House - at a huge margin - and Congress.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:24 PM
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5. He said multiple times he would step down if Obama won. He said the job then became |
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:26 PM
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8. He said over a year ago that he would step down if the Dems took the White House, |
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since he didn't want to be a puppet in charge of nothing more than the political arm of the White House.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:22 PM
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3. I don't think the problem was/is with Obama |
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Dean leaving the DNC chairmanship was totally normal practice: it is highly unusual for any chair to serve over four years.
As much as I would like to see it be Dean, I think the first qualification (if the issue is going to be passing health legislation) is a good working relationship with Congress and the ability to know how to get the legislation through. On that score, I think the problem would be with the Congressional Republicans, who will paint him as a socialist maniac ... and even with some Dems, (hint: Schumer et al) who remained pissed with him for not giving them more money for reelection races.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:25 PM
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6. I think if Obama wanted Howard Dean as a high-level adviser, Dean would already be one. |
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All that would require of Dean would be a few short policy papers from time to time. I suppose there's an outside chance Dean will be picked, but I'm guessing Obama will pick someone less brazenly political than the outgoing chair of the Democratic party.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:27 PM
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9. People often overlook the possibility that Dean may not want a position. |
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:25 PM
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7. Is It Too Much to Ask, For Rahm To Have a $200k Tax Bill? |
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:28 PM
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10. Yes. Rahm was one of Obama's best picks. |
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Hillary, Joe, Rahm...
A stellar team.
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:32 PM
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..expect the usual meltdown here on DU.
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