Legal Commentary

Remember No Drama Obama?

By Big Tent Democrat

Mike Lux argues that the anonymous leaks from the White House may be coming from people seeking to undermine the President's agenda:

My question now is why are certain anonymous White House officials trying to undermine the President? I ask this question in all seriousness, because this is exactly what happened in the Clinton fight for health care reform. We would do these terrific, thoughtful, complex policy meetings where we go over various options on the health care bill but make no firm decisions. The next day in the New York Times or Washington Post, some particularly controversial aspect of the bill would be headlined as in "High-ranking administration officials say Clinton is considering X." It was without question one of the things that eventually killed health care reform.

What I discovered when I worked in the White House was that there were plenty of people who work in that building whose primary loyalty is not to the President but to themselves. They leak things to reporters to cultivate them and make sure they write puff job articles about them.

Hmm. Anyway, Lux's argument hardly explains the contradictions today between Rahmbo and Gibbs. Not such a well oiled machine anymore.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).