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...expectation is that we are going to be seeing an increase in manufacturing, and that is certainly a shift from where the economy has been headed," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal-leaning think tank in Washington. "Clearly you are going to have people moving down the pay scale...
...unions. Podesta himself is leading Obama's transition effort, holding press conferences to speak for the President-elect, with an operation beneath him filled with CAP alum. The transition's operations director, the general counsel and the co-director all have come over from similar jobs at the think tank. At least six other CAP alums or board members, including Daschle and former EPA Commissioner Carol Browner, continue to advise the transition or campaign on matters of policy; Daschle looks likely to become a part of Obama's cabinet as Secretary of Health and Human Services, in part because...
...personnel only tells part of the story. "There was not a policy ad that Obama did that did not quote us," boasts Jennifer Palmieri, who does communications for the think tank, and its more politically active offshoot, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Remember the claim that John McCain wanted to give $4 billion in tax breaks to oil companies like Exxon? The Action Fund came up with that number. What about the dubious charge that McCain planned a 22% cut in Medicare? That was based on a speculative research paper by the same group. While most political...
...When Democrats first started dreaming up a powerful think tank like CAP, they studied carefully how conservative organizations like Heritage had been so successful. That would explain the fact that in January Podesta's organization plans to publish a 600-page manuscript called Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint For The 44th President that is consciously modeled on a very similar conservative document produced at the dawn of the Reagan era. That 1,000-page book written by the Heritage Foundation in 1981, Mandate For Leadership, became the blueprint for the incoming administration of Ronald Reagan. The book was placed...
...they do not want the organization to become an arm of the Obama Administration, but there will be clear pressures . "Much of the change is yet to happen," says Wartell, who is running CAP until Podesta completes the transition and returns. "The idea here is to be a think tank. It's not to be a government is waiting. We created this institution to be here 30 years from...