The BlogObama's Budget Director a Bain Guy, Married a Bain Gal4:27 PM, Jul 16, 2012
• By DANIEL HALPER
President Obama's rhetoric would suggest that he's against Bain (both Bain Capital, the investment firm, and Bain Consulting, the consulting firm, as he makes little distinction between the two Bains where Mitt Romney worked in the past). But Obama's own hiring practice suggests something a little different: His own budget director is a Bain guy who married a Bain gal. Jeff Zients is the head of the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget. "Like Mitt Romney, the man who would unseat his boss, Mr. Zients (rhymes with science) got his professional start at Bain Consulting," the Wall Street Journal reports. Zients has only praise, it would seem, for Bain:
And as the Journal explains, "[Zients] oversees the administration's budget content and message, which are central to the president's argument that he has a balanced plan for the economy while Republicans would rip the country's social fabric and undermine the education and infrastructure needed to succeed economically." Recent Blog PostsThe Weekly Standard ArchivesBrowse 18 Years of the Weekly Standard
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