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Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up | 41 comments (41 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 1)

Honestly, it's all about the merits of the plan. If the plan is good, it can and will be defended. In that case, why will it matter a week from now if the reviews today and tomorrow are bad? Surely, a meritorious plan will have its defenders too, even if the administration does not make an attempt to curry favor with a particular crowd.

On the other hand, if the plan is a poor one, well then the criticism was inevitable anyway.

I will note, though, that I assume the leaks of the plan ahead of time have some purpose. Perhaps the administration expected a more favorable response. Perhaps elements of the plan are a trial balloon. Or maybe I'm wrong and there is no purpose at all.

by gideon on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 04:15:43 PM EST

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Like it or not, the activist left listens to left-wing bloggers. And the administration is taking a bruising on their floated plan. They would be foolish to let this go on for the next 48 hours because they'll get blasted by Congress on Monday from all sides if they don't change this dynamic. Maybe their plan just sucks, but they do plan on defending it, right? Well, they should get on it.

by BooMan on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 04:48:08 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

I'm still scratching my head at the idea that the administration leaked details, with no effort at defending the plan, as you assume.

Do you agree that the leak-without-defense was a planned move? It seems very unlikely to me that it was just a matter of happenstance, without careful thinking.

So, why do it this way? Is it possible that the administration wants to hear some initial criticisms in order to anticipate and prepare for the full-fledged debut of the plan?

I'm just speculating, and would like to hear from someone with more inside-baseball knowledge.

by gideon on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:04:51 PM EST
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I haven't heard a peep from the Obama administration and it doesn't appear anyone else has. I haven't had the teevee on today, so I don't know if they have people on there defending the plan, but I don't think so.

I think they just screwed up here.

by BooMan on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:10:28 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

Ask the President

by AliceDem on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:37:08 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

But Boo .. even sites like Calculated Risk .. and John Cole .. who aren't DFH's are panning the program .. and I haven't seen what Roubini has to say about it .. but anything where the taxpayer is asked to burden almost all the risk is a sure loser

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 at 12:59:14 AM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 1)

I'm not sure if this plan is a good one or not. Are they trying to artificially re-inflate the bubble? That strikes me as trying to create a market for these securities. Which means that this game continues without any changes in regulations.

Part of me wants AIG to no longer exist in any form. Let someone else take their business.

by ishmael on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 04:54:51 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

It's a difficult thing to define.

An effort to create a market for toxic assets that prices them about thirty cents on the dollar can be argued to be inflating the bubble or it can be argued to be intervening to avert a panic.

Depending on the ultimate price, it could wind up being one or the other.

by BooMan on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:01:37 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

I agree, it is all about the plan. If it is a good plan, then maybe a conference telephone briefing would help. But if it is not a good plan, then a blogger briefing would have no impact. Frankly, I don't think it is a good plan. The sooner Obama throws Larry & Tim under the bus, the better it will be for everyone.

We are talking about the celebrity press corps, this is not a feed them shrimp situation.

by AliceDem on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:09:11 PM EST
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Re: Obama Administration Needs to Wake Up (none / 0)

we are NOT talking about the celebrity press corp

preview is our friend.

by AliceDem on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 05:10:01 PM EST
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