Winged
Did you hear Lawrence O'Donnell's fascinating description of the Clinton White House on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday? Susanna over at Cut on the Bias has transcribed that section of the interview. It's something else, far more effectively damning for its understatement than reams of histrionic partisan boilerplate:
Andy Card has run the most stable West Wing we have seen since possibly they built the West Wing. And he's a completely ego-less White House Chief of Staff who does a tremendous job and knows how to do it. I would have loved to have come into that kind of White House to do business instead of coming into a White House where people feared, who is going to tell this bad news about this vote count to the President's wife? Because no one wants to do that, because if they do they will be perceived by various people as an enemy, you know, it was madness, it was just madness, and unprofessional, and rampantly so... It was as bad as any Hollywood studio I ever had to deal with.