Weekend Reading — Politics and Policy

Posted on June 8, 2001 by Dan Gillmor

  • Frank Rich (NY Times): The Backslap Backlash. The administration proceeds on the belief that no one would possibly question its wisdom and that anything can be sold with the proper marketing strategy and enough repetition of an unvarying script.
  • Salon: Aluminum sliding. O’Neill has “made money by holding on to [the stock] while at the same time administration policies on energy have driven up the price of his stock.”
  • Washington Post: ‘Last-Minute’ Spin on Regulatory Rite. The Clinton administration published the most pages at the end. But taking into account how much the pace of regulation at the end surged above that during the rest of his tenure, the record-holder is the first President George Bush. “What you’re basically finding is there isn’t a partisan difference,” said Jay Cochran III, a Mercatus research fellow who did the analysis.

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