Lanhee Chen Nominated To SSAB
From the
Washington Post:
It seemed like a timely stroke of bipartisanship: the White House
announced Monday, on the eve of a government shutdown, that President
Obama would nominate a top adviser to Republican Mitt Romney's campaign
to an administration position.
Obama intends to nominate Lanhee J. Chen -- the policy director on
Romney's 2012 presidential campaign who, yes, repeatedly attacked
Obama's Social Security plans -- to the Social Security Advisory Board,
which advises the president as well as the Congress on Social Security
policy.
But that's not quite the full story. The board is independent and its
membership is bipartisan. Although the president nominates members, the
nominees alternate between the political parties. This vacancy was for a
Republican member, a White House aide explained, and Chen was actually
the pick of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
1 comment:
And Obama is not holding it up in a political grandstand?!
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