{"id":3348,"date":"2005-01-11T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3348.html"},"modified":"2005-01-11T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T17:58:00","slug":"left-with-no-other-choice-bush-turns-to-fundraiser-for-economic-policy-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/left-with-no-other-choice-bush-turns-to-fundraiser-for-economic-policy-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Left with no other choice, Bush turns to fundraiser for economic policy advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cause<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[T]he White House has found it harder to attract a top-flight team because some candidates are unwilling to give up lucrative posts to come to Washington to be White House cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

One economist, who was rumored to be up for a position on the Council of Economic Advisers, said he could not take a job that has been steadily pushed to the sidelines over the past two years. “You can’t be attracted to a job where you’d be out of the loop,” he said. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[S]ome Republican economists say the administration’s top economic jobs have been marginalized, while their inhabitants have been publicly humiliated. <\/p>\n

“Why would you want to take a job where you have no influence?” asked Bruce Bartlett of the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis. “What’s the point?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Effect<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Bush has chosen Allan B. Hubbard, a longtime friend and fund-raiser who helped shape Mr. Bush’s platform in the 2000 campaign, to be director of the National Economic Council, the White House said on Monday.<\/p>\n

In his new job, which does not require Senate confirmation, Mr. Hubbard will coordinate economic policymaking across the administration and serve as a senior economic adviser to Mr. Bush. Currently the president of E&A Industries, a manufacturing company based in Indianapolis, Mr. Hubbard served in the administration of the president’s father as executive director of the Competitiveness Council, a White House group established to reduce regulation on business, and as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hubbard has known Mr. Bush since the two attended Harvard Business School at the same time in the mid-1970’s. He was one of the top fund-raisers for Mr. Bush’s 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s something of a pattern with this gang. When in a jam, forget merit and qualifications and turn to wealthy and loyal friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cause: [T]he White House has found it harder to attract a top-flight team because some candidates are unwilling to give up lucrative posts to come to Washington to be White House cheerleaders. One economist, who was rumored to be up for a position on the Council of Economic Advisers, said he could not take a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}