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...order to deal with the current shifting political landscape, Steele said that aspiring politicians must be honest with the public and be comfortable following others when necessary...
...rocked Capitol Hill when he testified that instead of bringing the government's health care costs down, earlier versions of legislation under consideration in both the House and the Senate would drive them up faster. "I can think of 30 ways to say that, that would have been honest but would have gotten less in the way of headlines," says Urban Institute president Robert Reischauer, one of Elmendorf's predecessors as the head of the CBO. "I fired off a congratulatory e-mail...
...with the health care plan in deep political trouble, the focus for both Congress and the White House is shifting from expanding government to shrinking it. Lawmakers will again turn to the CBO for an honest assessment of what actually cuts the deficit and what merely pretends to. Elmendorf is the first to concede that even the most sophisticated CBO microsimulation model is not the same thing as a crystal ball. "We tell people all the time that our results are very uncertain," he says. "Every number that we give needs to be viewed as the middle of a fairly...
Gates is prone to bracingly honest language that is not necessarily reassuring from a man who has the weight of Obama's Afghanistan policy on his shoulders. But that may be because Gates has something of the writer's sensibility about him. He has the look of a man both in the moment and at a slight angle, peering in, through dark glasses, upon the human comedy. In his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows, he wrote, "I was, during the remarkable events from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, there in the shadows, the proverbial fly on the wall...
Yegor Lupan calls himself "the most honest presidential candidate" in the country. In his campaign videos, he admits that he'll rig the results in order to win, and once in power, plans to embezzle state funds. Ukrainians also shouldn't expect a rise in pensions under his leadership, he says. "When you see my villas, you'll understand...