how political reporters would run thing
[This reminds me of Adolph Reed’s characterization of elite liberals’
solution: get all the smart people together on the Vineyard, and they
can work things out. From Romenesko.]
Harris imagines how political reporters would run government PressThink
“Their ideal would be to have a blue ribbon commission go into
seclusion at Andrews Air Force base for a week and solve all
problems,” departing Washington Post political editor John Harris
tells Jay Rosen. “It would be chaired by Alan Greenspan and Sam Nunn.
David Gergen would be communications director, and the policy staff
would come from Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute. They
would not come back until they had come up with sober, centrist
solutions to the entitlements debate, the Iraq war, and the gay
marriage controversy.”