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February 24, 2005
Daniel Froomkin Observes the Topkapi Palace
He writes:
White House Briefing: Bush yesterday promoted Harvey S. Rosen, an economist on leave from Princeton University who is already a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to the position of chairman. But, as Edmund L. Andrews writes in the New York Times, 'White House officials indicated that Mr. Rosen will serve only as an interim chairman and plans to resume teaching at Princeton next fall. Mr. Bush's decision to name Mr. Rosen came as a surprise to some Republicans, who had been expecting the White House to nominate Ben S. Bernanke, a member of the Federal Reserve board of governors.
'And the way Mr. Bush announced Mr. Rosen's elevation was also a surprise: His name was mentioned at the bottom of a long list of personnel decisions that began with the nomination of a man to serve on the board of the Washington-area airport authority.'
Indeed.
Posted by DeLong at February 24, 2005 09:57 AM
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Comments
So what is the surprise. It just recognizes what the CEA is in the Bush administration. IRRELEVANT.
Posted by: cynic at February 24, 2005 10:06 AM
Bush already knows that Rosen will say what he is told to say. He is already part of the "new" CEA, that thinks up excuses for White House pet ideas rather than offering sound economic advice. I'd guess no outside economist that the White House thought would earn it some free reputation miles would agree to work under the "new" rules, so they kicked it down the road to the next scheduled resignation.
Posted by: kharris at February 24, 2005 10:12 AM
'And the way Mr. Bush announced Mr. Rosen's elevation was also a surprise: His name was mentioned at the bottom of a long list of personnel decisions that began with the nomination of a man to serve on the board of the Washington-area airport authority.'
And this is surprising why? Where in the list of personnel announcements by a major business does the wearer of the company's advertising sandwich board on the street appear?
Posted by: Lewis Carroll at February 24, 2005 10:25 AM
I didn't realize the piano player in the whorehouse was appointed by the President.
Posted by: Davis X. Machina at February 24, 2005 11:21 AM
Ever get the feeling that some copy clerk in teh Whitehouse could easily make policy for this group? They are willing to never admit any sort of mistake that Rosen's name could have just been slid onto the bottom of the document and no one will even ask who did it because it would look bad.
Posted by: Rob at February 24, 2005 11:53 AM
Maybe Bernanke didn't want to be the incumbent CEA chair during a bond market crash.
Posted by: P O'Neill at February 24, 2005 12:04 PM
Entirely possible -- this is the No Messenger Left Unshot administration....
Posted by: Davis X. Machina at February 24, 2005 01:42 PM
I tend to ignore a passage when it ends with the word "indeed."
Posted by: cloquet at February 24, 2005 09:05 PM