May 30th, 2014
I know Politico is all about up-to-the-moment politics, and doesn’t have time for weird historical nuggets from the Cleveland administration or what have you, but I was struck by this piece today on Obama and the problems in the VA system:
There’s a well-worn Obama playbook: Let conservative critics burn hot, put off decisions during a fact-finding mission, quietly set up a procedure that starts to tackle the problems. Count on his allies on the Hill to have his back. And definitely, definitely don’t appear to be cowed into firing people.
April of 2012 was a long time ago and everything, but does anybody at Politico remember Martha Johnson?
This doesn’t even require you scrap your lede! All you have to do is replace “definitely, definitely don’t” with “almost never allow yourself” and it’s fixed.
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