{"id":6730,"date":"2012-01-12T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:04:04","slug":"an-excellent-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/an-excellent-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excellent Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the areas in whi9ch I have been most critical of Barack Obama has been his terrible record of appointing Clintonista neo-liberals important jobs from Timmy \u201cthe tool\u201d Geithner down.  I could not be more pleased that, on the heels of appointing Elizabeth Warren\u2019s choice to head the CFPB, Barack Obama had just appointed a progressive activist to a key domestic post.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12Munoz\"President Obama’s announcement that Cecilia Munoz will be appointed to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council is great news for Progressives<\/strong> – and especially for advocates of immigration reform.<\/p>\n

Munoz is a passionate advocate of the interests of everyday working people and defending the embattled American middle class<\/strong>. She is also a talented and inspiring leader. Munoz knows how to get things done in a tangled world of government bureaucracy. And she knows her way around the byzantine corridors of the Capitol. <\/p>\n

More importantly, she is deeply committed to progressive values and to the welfare of ordinary, working Americans<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Her appointment is great government – and great politics. <\/p>\n

Her skill will bolster the President’s ability to take initiatives that will strengthen America’s economy, with or without Congress. And her appointment is symbolic of the Administration’s commitment to mount a major campaign to pass immigration reform in a new Congress if he is re-elected this fall<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Congrats to Cecilia Munoz, and kudos to Barack Obama for an excellent appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the areas in whi9ch I have been most critical of Barack Obama has been his terrible record of appointing Clintonista neo-liberals important jobs from Timmy \u201cthe tool\u201d Geithner down.  I could not be more pleased that, on the heels of appointing Elizabeth Warren\u2019s choice to head the CFPB, Barack Obama had just appointed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}