Obama Selects Heads of His Deficit Panel
By JACKIE CALMES
NYT
President Obama is going to name Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, as the co-chairmen of a bipartisan commission to recommend how to reduce high deficits that are building the national debt to perilous levels, according to a senior administration official.
Mr. Obama is expected to announce his choices on Thursday, these people say. In an interview earlier on Tuesday, Mr. Simpson declined to address whether he had been approached about the job, but his frustration with the partisan impasse over fiscal policies was plain.
Asked if he would serve on the commission if asked, Mr. Simpson, reached in Cody, Wyo., said, “I’ll just say I’m very frustrated and I can’t believe what’s happening to our country.”
“There isn’t a single sitting member of Congress, not one, that doesn’t know exactly where we’re headed,” Mr. Simpson continued. “And to use the politics of fear and division and hate on each other–we are at a point right now where it doesn’t make a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican if you’ve forgotten you’re an American.”
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NYT
President Obama is going to name Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, as the co-chairmen of a bipartisan commission to recommend how to reduce high deficits that are building the national debt to perilous levels, according to a senior administration official.
Mr. Obama is expected to announce his choices on Thursday, these people say. In an interview earlier on Tuesday, Mr. Simpson declined to address whether he had been approached about the job, but his frustration with the partisan impasse over fiscal policies was plain.
Asked if he would serve on the commission if asked, Mr. Simpson, reached in Cody, Wyo., said, “I’ll just say I’m very frustrated and I can’t believe what’s happening to our country.”
“There isn’t a single sitting member of Congress, not one, that doesn’t know exactly where we’re headed,” Mr. Simpson continued. “And to use the politics of fear and division and hate on each other–we are at a point right now where it doesn’t make a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican if you’ve forgotten you’re an American.”
(More here.)
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