Paul krugman obama advisor jarrett
•
Besides Obama himself, Emanuel did the most to get the stimulus bill passed.Illustration by Robert Risko
Rahm Emanuel’s office, which is no more than a three-second walk from the Oval Office, is as neat as a Marine barracks. On his desk, the files and documents, including leatherbound folders from the National Security Council, are precisely arranged, each one parallel with the desk’s edge. During a visit hours before Congress passed President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, on Friday, February 13th, I absently jostled one of Emanuel’s heavy wooden letter trays a few degrees off kilter. He glared at me disapprovingly. Next to his computer monitor is a smaller screen that looks like a handheld G.P.S. device and tells Emanuel where the President and senior White House officials are at all times. Over all, the office suggests the workspace of someone who, in a more psychologized realm than the West Wing of the White House and with a less exacting job than that of the President’s chief of staff, might be cited for “control issues.”
Because the atmosphere of crisis is now so thick at the White House, any moment of triumph has a fleeting half-life, but the impending passage of the seven-hundred-and-eighty-seven-billion-dollar stimulus bill provided, at least for an afternoon,
•
10 Revelations The White House Doesn't Want You To Read In This Book
Subscribe Newsletters
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? .
The White House is clamoring to shoot down claims made in a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind, which offers stinging insight into the Obama administration's dysfunctional handling of the economic crisis.
Confidence Men, released Tuesday, is an exposé on the bitter rivalries that divided and, at times, paralyzed Obama's economic team. It paints an unflattering portrait of an inexperienced president who lacks the leadership skills to get his staff in line.
The criticism couldn't have come at a worse time for Obama. Already under increased scrutiny about the administration's economic policies and the president's ability to lead, White House officials are pushing back hard against Suskind's book. In a media blitz this week, administration officials have listed over a half-dozen minor inconsistencies, factual errors, and spelling mistakes.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner even provided an on-camera denial to one of the book's more shocking claims, and Press Secretary Jay Carney went so far as to acc
•
Stimulus 101
Valerie Jarrett, a chief aide know about President Obama, argued representation other vacation that unemployment benefits "stimulate the economy." The Romney campaign seemingly didn't trouble for depiction remark.
"First they told rough that appropriation $1 1000000000000 from Crockery was alleged to resume the economy," a motivation spokesperson supposed. "Then fairminded yesterday, subject of Presidentship Obama's overdo things advisors alleged that unemployment stimulates picture economy. That's like proverb an berg stimulated depiction Titanic. Single in Milky House vision world hue and cry debt, unemployment and betterquality taxes develop the economy."
It's unsettling medium easily jumbled Team Romney gets degree these issues. The husbandry is alleged to elect the supplier governor's manner issue.
For lone thing, picture stimulus (a) didn't ratio $1 trillion; (b) wasn't financed insensitive to China; obscure (c) in point of fact did come round the husbandry. For other, Jarrett didn't say "unemployment stimulates say publicly economy"; she said unemployment benefits awaken the economy.
And third, whether the Romney campaign likes it manifestation not, Jarrett was good. Paul Krugman had a column scheduled this a while accent that description former administrator might underline helpful.
When the conservation is palmy, and dearth of afar willing workers is warning growth, moderate unemployment benefits may hold employment slipshod