Bremer Then and Bremer Now Paul Bremer, Feb. 26, 2001: “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’ “That’s too bad. They’ve […]

Reputation Update In the previous post, I wrote that Brad DeLong might have been a bit hasty in saying, “No one, absolutely no one, is getting out of this administration with even the shreds of a reputation.” My counter example was, and so far remains, Mark McClellan (previously in charge of the FDA, now heading […]

Medicare.gov Seniors basically don’t like the Republican prescription drug plan. We’ve known that for a while (this graph shows why). This lack of enthusiasm explains why DHHS issued the infamous “video news releases” that purported to contain reporting from Karen Ryan on the myriad ways in which the new plan would be the greatest thing […]