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The Washington Post’s Anne E. Kornblut says President Obama’s new man, Pete “The Fixer” Rouse, was once described by Obama as “completely ego-free.” Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, is already ego-free. Or he appears to be. Better than being weak, malleable and fawning. I’m not sure they really understand what “ego-free” means. Possibly they think of Rahm Emanuel as “egotistical” and Rouse the Fixer as the opposite or the anti-Emanuel. Emanuel is not egotistical. He is brash and aggressive. “Pushy,” as Executive Secretary Ida Blankenship said last week just before she died. It is different. But the choice to replace him with Rouse presents a flawed management model.

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