WaPo Pushes White House Berwick Spin
In his July 9th column praising the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), David Ignatius reports:
The CMS post has been unfilled since 2006 and Obama finally decided enough, already. The White House said Republicans “were going to stall the nomination as long as they could, solely to score political points.”
The White House can say whatever it wants but even columnists should check and see if they are telling the truth. And as ABC’s Jake Tapper reported, the GOP had no interest in stalling Dr. Berwick’s hearing:
Sen. John Kerry,
Conn Carroll
July 14, 2010
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