A ‘dream’ Obama administration?
NYT’s David Brooks lays out his version of a “dream” Obama administration today. Brooks, who has previously identified health care and energy as the two biggest issues that need to be addressed, writes:
The current economic and energy crisis is an opportunity to do what was not done in similar circumstances in 1974 – transform this country’s energy supply. A comprehensive bill – encompassing everything from off-shore drilling to green technologies – would stimulate the economy and nurture new political coalitions.
And, in describing the process and culture of a “dream” administration, Brooks writes:
Walking into the Obama White House of my dreams will be like walking into the Gates Foundation. The people there will be ostentatiously pragmatic and data-driven. They’ll hunt good ideas like venture capitalists. They’ll have no faith in all-powerful bureaucrats issuing edicts from the center. Instead, they’ll use that language of decentralized networks, bottom-up reform and scalable innovation.
Not sure about the offshore drilling, but if it were a part of a fundamental change in energy policy, as Brooks suggests, it would be a lot more palatable. And as for the hoped for culture of pragmatism and data-driven decisions– sounds good to me.
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