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Well, that's a very nice compliment, but I think my first choice would be to keep Governor Mike Leavitt in the spot. I think he's been one of the best HHS secretaries this country has ever seen...
That's not something I think is very likely at all. But I'm honored by the compliment...
...written, Markopolos outlined his recommendations for fixing the SEC. Markopolos said that "right now investors are afraid." He cited investor fears of banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, credit rating agencies, investment manager, and the country's regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Treasury. In a backhanded compliment, Markopolos said the SEC is a "bad regulator, but the best of a very sorry lot," though at one point he also suggested that it might be better to disband it or merge it with another agency. The bigger fix, he said, was to create one "super regulatory agency...
...comforted by the reaction of Rangoon's police chief. "DVB are the worst," growls Major General Khin Yi in the closing scenes of Burma VJ. "DVB are the ones who broadcast most of the false news about us." My brave Burmese colleagues couldn't ask for a bigger compliment, or for a better reason to continue their extraordinary work...
...begin to dissipate by the midterm elections of 2010, limiting the Democratic losses, and disappear entirely by 2012. Reagan was lucky in that way. Obama is facing more difficult problems and might not be so lucky. But at least, for the moment, he is paying his public the great compliment of taking his job seriously, focusing on the long-term substance rather than the bread and circuses that masqueraded as leadership in the recent past...