The Reign Of The Poet Kings | The New Republic

The Reign Of The Poet Kings

From Jonathan Cohn's account of health care reform:

After the meeting broke up, a few of his advisers milled in the hallways outside the Oval Office, pondering the prospect of taking up such a high-risk strategy because the president “felt lucky.” As one of them later told me, “It was like, holy shit.

From John Heilemann's article on Obama and Wall Street:

For Obama, Wall Street’s cluelessness is a source of intense frustration—“He’s like, ‘What the fuck, you guys?’ ” says a White House official