"I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write," said TV commentator Howard Beale in the 1976 movie Network. I don't know what to do about the depression, the inflation, the Russians, or the crime in the streets. All I know is that first... You've got to get mad."
Posted by: R. J. Behn in populism, politics, palin, McCain on
Mar 30, 2009
It's about credibility. It's only 2009 but the attacks on the credibility of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are heating up again. If the governor seeks the Republican Party nomination for president in 2012, the initial contest may be a match-up between her credibility and that of the media.
Treasury Secretaries aren't particularly loved. It is not a job for the politically ambitious. No treasury secretary has ever become president - unlike Secretaries of State Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan, all of whom ascended to that post. Treasury is a post that can burn out the incumbent.
The Center for Young Professionals in Politics is a non-partisan research, advocacy, educational, and networking center at The George Washington University within the Graduate School of Political Management.
The Center has four divisions:
Research
The Center brings together teams of GW researchers to study the experience of young professionals in politics. Researchers are awarded both credit and a scholarship for their work. Additionally, they are given the opportunity to publish their work as a team.
Educate
The Center makes use of its research and its advisory board to educate young professionals on how to navigate the political profession.
Advocate
The Center uses its research to create non-partisan policies regarding young professionals.
Network
The Center takes advantage of its unique position in DC, and its outstanding advisory board and members, to help young professionals entering the profession gain a foot hold in the business.
This summer they will begin the first round of research! The Center is looking to compile, organize, and explain Staff charts of elected offices from the local, state, and federal levels.
At the moment, they are building the website and accepting research proposals.
As more and more newspapers shut down and people rely solely upon online news sources to get their news and analysis, it is important to be strategic about where we choose to get our news and opinion pieces. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof describes the effects of an increased control over where one gets his or her news from in the online world, termed "The Daily Me." He writes:
"The decline of traditional news media will accelerate the rise of The Daily Me, and we'll be irritated less by what we read and find our wisdom confirmed more often. The danger is that this self-selected "news" acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays."
(cross-posted at IPDI)
A few days ago
we announced that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner will participate in a keynote session at POLC 09.
Today we announce that California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will join the keynote session.
Business interests, the media, and Republicans are complaining because President Obama has too much on his plate. They claim to be worried that he is trying to do too much before the economic problems of the country are under control.
Even supporter Warren Buffet has said that Obama's "job 1 is to win the war, the economic war; job 2 is to win the economic war, and job 3." I n an op-ed in the Washington Post, Intel founder Andrew Grove argued that "the people are eager for the administration to rein in chaos. But this is not happening. Until the administration does this, we should not embark on attempting to fix another major part of the economy. "
Rogues, despicable as they may be, can serve a purpose. Most obviously, rogues in the financial world provide appealing targets for those in the political world. Congress may not be a much-loved institution, but surely Bernard Madoff , the so-called "Monster Mensch," is more despised than most senators and representatives. There are few resources more useful to a politician than a world-class demon.
"I want a program so long as the papers are not being delivered," the mayor told WNYC, the city-owned radio station. During the 17-day New York City newspaper strike of July 1945, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia daily took to the radio waves to read the comics to Gotham's "kiddies." Those were the days when people read newspapers.
Posted by: Ben Veghte in Untagged on
Mar 25, 2009
Is it just me, or was something fishy about President Obama’s opening statement last night before the start of his press conference? At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. He was elegant, confident and clear in his remarks; all the things we’ve come to expect from our Commander in Speech.
Then…suddenly it hit me—“HIS CRUTCHES,” I said to myself; “they’re gone!”
