{"id":2233,"date":"2009-01-08T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2009-01-08T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:34:41","slug":"getting-used-to-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/08\/getting-used-to-competence\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Used to Competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a really hard time adjusting out of the past eight years, I&#8217;ve discovered, especially when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-obama-sunsteinjan08,0,263754.story\">the appointment of qualified people<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cass Sunstein, a longtime <a id=\"OREDU0000151\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"University of Chicago\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/university-of-chicago-OREDU0000151.topic\">University of Chicago<\/a> legal scholar and prominent author, is set to take up a key cause in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/obama\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> administration: regulation.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Obama has promised an overhaul to federal regulation, specifically of the U.S. financial markets, and Sunstein&#8217;s job description suggests a sweeping agenda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rail\"><!-- google ads --> <!-- END google ads --><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This office is in charge of coordinating and overseeing government regulations,&#8221; a transition official said Wednesday, &#8220;and a smarter approach to regulation is key to making government work better and getting better results in terms of protecting health, the environment, etc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- END rail -->Regulatory rulemaking and enforcement is probably one of the least-sexy and most misunderstood functions of our Federal government, yet it provides some of the most tangible benefits (and costs) to citizens.\u00c2\u00a0 Given that the rulemaking environments vary drastically from agency to agency, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what Sunstein hopes to &#8211; and can &#8211; accomplish in this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a really hard time adjusting out of the past eight years, I&#8217;ve discovered, especially when it comes to the appointment of qualified people: Cass Sunstein, a longtime University of Chicago legal scholar and prominent author, is set to take up a key cause in the Barack Obama administration: regulation. [ . . . ] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}