Greg Sargent: Bill Daley exit represents White House shift into populist mode
It’s tempting to see the news that Bill Daley is leaving as White House chief of staff — to be replaced by budget director Jack Lew — as a triumph of the new populist Obama over the old bipartisan and reconciliatory Obama. While there’s a grain of truth in that reading, it’s overstated. Bill Daley’s departure is not exactly heartbreaking news for Hill Democrats and liberals, because Daley is directly associated with many of the failings liberal Dems saw in the White House before Obama’s turn towards a more aggressive populism. Daley was brought in to repair relations with the business community, at a time (as liberals argued at the time) when literally nothing could have ever gotten corporate leaders and Republicans from from tarring Obama as anti-business. Daley’s olive branch went unrewarded, confirming liberal suspicions about the folly of hoping for improved relations. Read full article > >
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Greg Sargent:
Bill Daley exit represents White House shift into populist mode