AP sources: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff

Bill Daley's Real Agenda: Obama's Reelection (The Daily Beast)
NEW YORK – The president's new Chief of Staff will be focused on 2012, insiders tell Jonathan Alter. Plus, why Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse see Bill Daley as their fixer. The coverage of Bill Daley’s appointment as White House Chief of Staff has focused mostly on how he’ll use his stature as a grownup to work with Republicans on a growth package and help President Obama mend his relations with the business world. But White House insiders say th...

The Other New Chicago Crony Chief of Staff
Fun fact: Bill Daley isn't the only new Chief of Staff in the White House with longtime ties to the Chicago Way. Yep, it's No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in the nation's capital. On the other side of the White House, deep-pocketed Campaign Finance mega-bundler Tina Tchen was named First Lady Michelle Obama's new right-hand woman. Or rather, left-hand woman. The self-described "progressive" attorney from Chicago is taking over as Chief of Staff in the East Wing following the exp...

Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama named Veteran political manager William Daley to be his new Chief of Staff Thursday, selecting a Centrist with Wall Street ties to help navigate a newly divided Congress and a looming re-election. "Few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to this job," Obama told reporters in the East Room as Daley, 62, stood at his side. "But most of all, I know Bill to be somebody who cares deeply about this country, believes in its promise, a...

Day One of Obama 2.0: the William Daley era
Well, this time William Daley didn't faint when a president named him to a senior administration job. (Watch video here.) Although perhaps the Democrat should have, given the daunting assignment of remaking the public image of the Obama White House crowd in the 670 dwindling days before the 2012 Presidential Election. Daley's choice is an excellent one by Obama because it shows a young president maturing away from the comfortable ideological tack he's instinctively favored previous...

Meet the New Boss: William Daley is Obama Chief of Staff
WASHINGTON — Overhauling his team at the top, President Barack Obama on Thursday named Banker and seasoned political fighter William Daley as his new Chief of Staff, hoping to rejuvenate both a White House storming into re-election mode and an economy still gasping for help. The choice of Daley immediately brought howls of Protest from the left flank of the Democratic Party, where advocates questioned his insider ties to Wall Street. Centrists, business leaders and Republican lawmakers r...

Obama appoints new chief of staff
President Barack Obama named JP Morgan Chase executive William Daley as his new White House Chief of Staff yesterday. Announcing his decision at a White House ceremony, Mr Obama said he hoped Mr Daley – who was commerce secretary under former President Bill Clinton – would help energise the US economy. "He possesses a deep understanding of how jobs are created and how to grow our economy," Mr Obama said. Mr Daley was not part of the White House inner circle, but – at a time whe...

Mayor Daley: Theres No Chicago Mafia in The White House
And if you disagree he’ll set you up with a new pair of cement shoes. (The Hill)- President Obama’s selection of William Daley as his new Chief of Staff is not an example of a “Chicago mafia,” Mayor Richard M. Daley, William Daley’s brother, said Thursday. At a Press Conference about Chicago schools Thursday, Mayor Daley said that his brother’s appointment to be President Obama’s new Chief of Staff was not an example of a “Chicago mafia.” ...

Obama Appoints Ultimate Wall Street Insiders to Top Posts Again
Washington’s Blog strives to provide real-time, well-researched and actionable information.  George - the head writer at Washington’s Blog - is a busy professional and a former adjunct Professor. ~~~ Obama is replacing his chief economic adviser - Larry Summers - with Gene Sperling. Sperling is currently a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and is now being appointed as Obama’s chief economic adviser. He’s been there before: Sperling will

I Love the Smell of Corporatocracy in the Morning
...The president has been reaching out directly to U.S. companies, meeting with 20 chief executives last month to ask for ideas on policies that would inspire them to invest and hire. And on Feb. 7, Mr. Obama will cross Lafayette Park from the White House to the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, his longtime political nemesis, to discuss working together on Job Creation. "The administration took some positive steps recently, striking a Bipartisan agreement to extend current Tax Rates...

What to Expect for the Next Two Years
In a nutshell: Senator Harry Reid will block any Republican reforms, and President Obama will only pretend to move to the center. Kimberly Strassel provides a preview of the next two years with Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. He will do President Obama’s bidding. Expect many of the Reform Bills the House Republicans will pass to be stopped in their tracks in the Senate. Once full Repeal [of ObamaCare] goes nowhere, House Republicans (joined by some Democrats) will begin sending the...

AP sources: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hiring William Daley to be his Chief of Staff, choosing a Veteran political manager with Wall Street ties to direct an operation now steaming toward re-election mode. Daley will step into one of the most important and influential jobs in American government as an adviser and gatekeeper to Obama. He will replace Pete Rouse, the interim chief of the last three months, a behind-the-scenes Obama adviser who did not want the position permanently and recomm...

Obama names Daley as chief of staff
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama tapped former Commerce Secretary William Daley as his Chief of Staff Thursday, calling Daley an experienced public servant. Daley "possesses a deep understanding about how jobs are created" and knows what must be done to grow The Economy, Obama said when introducing Daley as a member of his staff. "He is an experienced public servant, a devoted patriot, a friend and fellow Chicagoan," Obama said of Daley, who was commerce secretary during Presiden...

Obama Picks William Daley for Chief of Staff
President Barack Obama has announced that William Daley will be the new White House Chief of Staff. Daley served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce during Bill Clinton’s Second Term and is the brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Pete Rouse has filled the position since October, when Obama's first Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, resigned to run for mayor of Chicago. Follow the money in Congress. Check out a roundup of this month's best political cartoons. ...

Daley is a reflection, not a cause
AP Few things interest me less at this point than royal court personnel changes.  I actually agree with the pro-Obama/Democratic-Party-loyal commentators who insist it doesn't much matter who becomes White House Chief of Staff because it's Obama who drives administration policy.  Obama didn't do what he did in the first two years because Rahm Emanuel was his Chief of Staff.  That view has the causation reversed:  he chose Emanuel for that position because that's who Ob...

Obama picks Bill Daley to head staff
WASHINGTON -- President Obama has chosen William Daley to serve as his new Chief of Staff, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday morning. Daley, the former Commerce secretary under Bill Clinton, will take over from Pete Rouse, who has been serving as interim chief of staff. Rouse will be given the role of "counselor to the president," a new position considered an advancement from his previous position as senior advisor. Obama will hold a news conference announcing the move at 2:30 p.m. EST...

Obama names Daley as chief
President Obama on Thursday named William Daley to be his new Chief of Staff, elevating interim chief Pete Rouse to the role of councilor to the president. In an East Room ceremony at the White House, Obama heaped praise on Rouse before introducing Daley who assured the president that his “team will not let you down or the nation.” Daley said that Obama has shown by example that public service is “an honorable calling, and I am pleased to answer your call.” Tapping former Clinton o

Obama introduces new chief of staff (Politico)
President Barack Obama on Thursday introduced William Daley as his new Chief of Staff, tapping a political heavyweight with an unusual combination of high-level experience both in the business world and in Washington to oversee the White House as it grapples with a more Republican Congress and prepares for the president’s expected re-election campaign in 2012. At a brief East Room ceremony Thursday afternoon, Obama described Daley, a former Commerce secretary who currently works as a senio...

Business community lauds Obama's new chief of staff
Moderate Democrats and the business community on Thursday hailed President Obama's choice of banking executive William Daley as his next Chief of Staff while some progressive Activists balked at the return of a Centrist Washington Veteran whom they warned would alienate Mr. Obama's left flank ahead of 2012. In a brief East Room announcement, Mr. Obama described Mr. Daley, who served as commerce secretary under President Clinton, as "an experienced public servant, a devoted patriot." "Few America...

In picking Daley, Obama edges out of his comfort zone (The Ticket)
Signaling a desire to steer the West Wing in a new direction, President Obama announced today that he's tapped former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley as his next Chief of Staff. News of the move brought instant praise from the business community, which has had a shaky relationship with the White House over the last two years. But it's likely to further inflame tensions between Obama and Liberal Democrats, who aren't fans of Daley's ties to Wall Street or his Centrist political leanings. Speaking...

William Daley tabbed to be President Obama's new chief of staff: reports
President Obama chose another Chicago political powerhouse Thursday to be his new Chief of Staff. William Daley, son of one legendary Chicago mayor and brother to the current one, replaces Rahm Emmanuel, who returned last fall to the Windy City to run for mayor. Obama was expected to formally announce his pick of Daley later today, sources confirmed. Daley, 62, may be a Chicagoan to the core, but he's an old Washington hand as well. He was Secretary of Commerce during the Clinton administratio...

William Daley
Family: Born in Chicago, the seventh and youngest child of Chicago’s famed mayor, Richard J Daley. William Daley’s brother, Richard M. Daley, is the current mayor of the city. He is 62 and married. Education: Loyola University in Chicago, B.A.; John Marshall Law School. Political Career: Key aide for Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton in Illinois in 1992; shepherded the North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress for the Clinton White House; US Secretary of Commerce, Janua...

Who is William M. Daley?
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama's new Chief of Staff could help improve White House relations with the business community, but may harm White House relations with liberals, according to some observers. Daley replaces Rahm Emanuel, Obama's first chief of staff, who is running for mayor of Chicago. Daley's name is synonymous with Chicago politics, where his father and older brother have been mayor for most of the past half-century. • He left the Clinton Administration in mid-2000 to beco...

New WH Chief Of Staff William Daley Raises Questions
William Daley and Richard Daley are two entirely different Democrats, even if both are from Chicago (Richard's the mayor), and seem to both exemplify the more moderate wing of the political party. But now that William Daley is expected to take the reins from interim White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse, questions are emerging as Journalists realize how different he is from Rahm Emanuel. For one thing, President Barack Obama and Daley are not particularly personally close, notes the Chicago Tribune.

AP: William Daley To Be WH Chief Of Staff...
WASHINGTON – Ushering in change at the top of his team, President Barack Obama has chosen William Daley to be his new Chief of Staff, choosing a Veteran political manager with Wall Street ties to direct an operation now steaming toward re-election mode. Daley will step into one of the most important and influential jobs in American government as an adviser and gatekeeper to Obama. He will replace Pete Rouse, the interim chief of the last three months, a behind-the-scenes Obama adviser who ...

White House to try the same thing again
…in the hopes that this time, it’ll be different.  The ‘Benjamin Button’ reference made by Ronald Brownstein below is in reference to the GOP’s policy agenda, which is pretty explicitly to reverse all of the catastrophic features of  President Obama’s policy agenda: the conceit is that we’re going to have the same debates over again.  And Brownstein reports that this is just fine with the White House, for some reason: …early indications are th