Who's Running Things?

John Kamensky has a thought-provoking and important post up today asking a key question: does the stimulus package create a parallel government? The amount of oversight, reporting, and sheer programmatic mobilization required by the bill are immense. And as Robert Brodsky reports, agencies are already missing the deadlines to get their spending oversight officials in place, in part because Obama hasn't appointed enough high-level people to provide suitable candidates for the positions. It's hard to have a parallel government when you don't really have the government up and running yet either...