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Washington czarism reflects the fact that some of our thorniest problems sprawl over turf belonging to more than one agency. Bruce Reed experienced this firsthand as director of domestic policy under President Clinton - the czar czar, if you will. He concluded that whether you say "czar" or "point person," it's important that someone have a mandate that cuts across competing domains. "The Cabinet may carry out policy," Reed says, "but the White House makes policy. Every White House has to find the right balance to make clear who has responsibility for what and how to resolve differences when turfs...
...word - and video - of the embarrassing incident got out, Nakagawa also stole positive attention away from this week's historic visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Japan. Nakagawa's press conference Tuesday nearly coincided with the briefing that announced the invitation that Clinton extended to Aso to be the first foreign leader to visit the White House under President Barack Obama's administration. "The opposition party is looking to make an opportunity out of this big mistake," says Credit Suisse chief economist Hiromichi Shirakawa. Shirakawa says that if there were economic implications of Nakagawa's resignation, they...
...Obama’s aides, the nightmare is a depression like the one that struck Japan in the 1990s, and a slow government response is the bogeyman. Geithner and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers were Clinton officials when a real-estate bubble in Japan burst, dragging the country into a decade-long slump. Alarmed by the downfall, they watched Tokyo gradually approve stimulus spending and scatter funding across projects—to no avail...
...everyone is waiting. Another longtime Golden State political pro, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a two-time former insurance commissioner and Deputy Interior Secretary under President Clinton, told TIME, "I am in. Period." (Garamendi, 64, was once a political rival of Brown's sister Kathleen.) California, Garamendi said, needs a leader who will put progressive back into the state's political lexicon. Despite Schwarzenegger's recent swing to the middle, Garamendi said the governor has lost his ability to lead the state out of its troubles. Schwarzenegger's two terms, Garamendi said, "have been a failure of leadership." (See 25 people...
...someone who is expected to meet with Hillary Clinton during her first trip to Asia as U.S. Secretary of State, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso appears to be a host not yet ready for the party. Japan's economy continues to shrivel, the government remains gridlocked as elections loom, and public approval for Aso's administration is plunging. Even influential former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is criticizing Aso's performance, though both are members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...