By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--December 6, 2013
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"Nothing frustrates me more than when people aren't doing their jobs,” Obama has said. So, with so much riding on the line, one would assume he held weekly, if not daily, one-on-one meetings with his Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to isolate problems, challenge assumptions, apply executive pressure where needed and successfully manage a project of scale. Nope. That did not happen, at least not according to Obama's own official White House calendar. A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) analysis finds that from July 12, 2010, to Nov. 30, 2013, the president's public schedule records zero one-on-one meetings between Obama and Sebelius. Equally shocking, over the same period, the president's calendar lists 277 private meetings with his other Cabinet secretaries (excluding full Cabinet meetings). Given these startling findings, and the fact that the White House calendar did not reflect meetings prior to July 12, 2010, GAI researchers then performed a second analysis using another respected recorder of presidential activity, the POLITICO presidential calendar . The results: Just one April 21, 2010 entry was found listing a White House meeting between Obama and Sebelius—and even that was a joint meeting with then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.Ouch! What's gotten into the water over at the Politico? Is it possible that the dreamiest President in history has let them down so badly that they can no longer conceal their pain? Have they suddenly realized that what they've spent years calling "a hands off management style" is really just gross incompetence? Harsh stuff from the left's favorite online news source. ...and they conclude like this:
Whatever the cause, the launch of HealthCare.gov will go down in the annals of executive management as a case study of failure. Obama must answer for his absence of leadership.Yikes... Demanding accountability is so unlike the Politico. Perhaps the President isn't engaged because he seems to think a wave of his hand should be all that's required for success. The bottom line is, when you like to view yourself as a King who's above the tawdry, everyday, workings of Washington D.C., this is what happens. No wonder he has to learn about everything "by watching the news, just like you."
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