{"id":5627,"date":"2005-10-25T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2005-10-25T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:44:15","slug":"timing-is-everything-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/timing-is-everything-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no strong feelings about Ben Bernanke’s nomination to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. I’ve seen several trusted sources say positive things about him — including Prof. DeLong<\/a>, Max Sawicki<\/a>, and Angry Bear<\/a> — so I’m inclined to say he’s a good choice. I am, however, intrigued by the timing of the announcement.<\/p>\n

In a Wall Street Journal column today, Fred Barnes, who described the nomination as being as “risk-free as possible,” said Bernanke was slated to get the call anyway, but the announcement was moved up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, the president had settled on Mr. Bernanke, 51, by late last week, though the actual nomination was not to be announced until later this month or early November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm, the White House had planned to wait on Bernanke, but pushed the nomination up. I wonder what other story they were hoping to distract attention from? It’s not like there’s anything else of political importance in the news, right? Oh wait…<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s also not forget, this is the second time in recent months that the White House has played fast and loose with their nomination calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush’s nomination of a new Supreme Court justice [John Roberts] may give White House adviser Karl Rove a temporary reprieve from public scrutiny of his role in the disclosure of an intelligence operative’s identity.<\/p>\n

Bush accelerated his search for a Supreme Court nominee in part because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s name, according to Republicans familiar with administration strategy.<\/p>\n

Bush originally had planned to announce a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on July 26 or 27, just before his planned July 28 departure for a month-long vacation at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, said two administration officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named.<\/p>\n

The officials said those plans changed because Rove has become a focus of Fitzgerald’s interest and of news accounts about the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least the Bush gang is consistent. They have one cynical, media-manipulation strategy and they stick with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no strong feelings about Ben Bernanke’s nomination to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. I’ve seen several trusted sources say positive things about him — including Prof. DeLong, Max Sawicki, and Angry Bear — so I’m inclined to say he’s a good choice. I am, however, intrigued by the timing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}