- Caren Bohan is managing editor for domestic policy at National Journal ... Who Is Denis McDonough, Obama's New Chief of Staff? By
The hard-working, devout close confidant -- currently deputy
national security adviser -- will serve as the president's right-hand
man.
President Obama will officially tap Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough to become his next chief of staff Friday afternoon, turning to a member of his close inner circle to fill one of the most important jobs in his administration. He replaces Jack Lew, who Obama has nominated for Treasury secretary. Here's what you need to know about McDonough:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/who-is-denis-mcdonough-obamas-new-chief-of-staff/272519/
When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check
If President Obama is determined to select a former senator to serve as Secretary of Defense, the ideal pick would be someone who at the very least saw through the flimsy arguments for authorizing George Bush’s war with Iraq.
That excludes Chuck Hagel, the Vietnam veteran and former Republican senator who Obama has tapped for the Pentagon post.In 2002, as the senator from Nebraska, Hagel voted with the Bush-Cheney White House on that one, despite overwhelming evidence that the war was unnecessary and unwise, and that the pre-authorization was antithetical to the constitutional premise that wars must be declared by Congress.
Twenty-three senators—almost a quarter of the chamber—got the issue right. Their number included not just twenty-one Democrats but also a Republican (Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee) and a former Republican serving as an independent (Vermont’s Jim Jeffords). The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, opposed the legislation. So too did the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Florida’s Bob Graham. In the House, 133 members, including six Republicans from across the ideological spectrum of the party (moderates, conservatives and libertarians) voted “no.”
And in Illinois, a young state senator told a Chicago rally:
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