Chronically, within the White House and on Capitol...

"Chronically, within the White House and on Capitol Hill, [Obama] sought consensus as a starting point—the tranquility of resolution without the catharsis of conflict."

- Hendrik Hertzberg, on Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men. Shockingly, Larry Summers turns out to have been rankly insubordinate; he “stage-whispered ‘Home alone’ after meetings with the President and confided to a colleague, ‘There’s no adult in charge’.”

09.29.11
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"Chronically, within the White House and on Capitol Hill, [Obama] sought consensus as a starting point—the tranquility of resolution without the catharsis of conflict."