Ezra Klein: The difference between Jack Lew and Bill Daley

[flpoljunkie]

The difference between Jack Lew and Bill Daley
Posted by Ezra Klein
03:39 PM ET, 01/09/2012


Jacob "Jack" Lew has been the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget since November. (Ron Sachs - VIA BLOOMBERG) President Obama announced Monday that Bill Daley is out as White House chief of staff and Jack Lew is in. Lew, you might remember, is serving as director of the Office of Management and Budget — a position he held in the Clinton administration, too. He also served as number two in the State Department under Hillary Clinton, as a senior policy adviser to ex-speaker Tip O’Neill, and as an executive at Citigroup.

The changeover is simple enough to explain: Lew is well-liked both inside the administration and in Congress. Daley, after about a year in the job, isn’t.

Inside the administration, many look back with regret at the decision to send Lew to State and Larry Summers to lead the National Economics Council. In some early versions of the organization chart, Lew would have taken the NEC job and, some believe, run a calmer, more collaborative economic process.

In Congress, Lew’s stock is unusually high. He has emerged as one of the members of the Obama administration Republicans prefer working with. Earlier this year, Ben Smith, then at Politico, profiled Lew under the headline: “Lew: A liberal GOP says it trusts.” The piece included an admiring comment from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

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[tularetom]

1. Approval of Republicans should not be a requirement for Obama's COS

That said, anybody who replaces an asshole like Daley is bound to be an improvement.

And Daley, bad as he was, was a huge improvement over that POS Emanuel.

[villager]

3. Well, you don't imagine they give a flying shit who *liberals* think should be that position do you?

n/t

[theaocp]

5. I imagine not.

WS will just keep going until the host is killed. That's what parasites do. Why Obama keeps entertaining these fucks is anybody's guess.

[AtomicKitten]

2. Looks like a good move.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Both of them, like Rahm Emmanuel, were financially successful as Wall Streeters.

Jacob Lew briefly worked at Citigroup and received $900,000 after the 2008 bailout of the giant bank.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11370532/1/obama-taps-third-ex-wall-streeter-as-chief-of-staff.html

Before becoming Obama's Chief of Staff, William Daley spent several years at JPMorgan Chase.

His predecessor Rahm Emmanuel earned his spurs while working as an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella.

[G_j]

6. that is the part I find disturbing

it seems to be a job requirement...