If not for pants on fire speculation---Summers would have been nominated.

[trumad]

Let's here it for the POF gang!

[Warren Stupidity]

1. First we can't have a neocon unilateral war, now we can't have a bankster thug at the fed,

this is stunning, it just BOGgles the mind.

[Autumn]

3. What's that smell in the air???

I think it smells like change. And I fucking like it. I wonder if Skinner would give us a POF group?

[dkf]

2. Don't complain til he does it. Yeah that would work well.

[Safetykitten]

4. Is it the fact that we practice our right to voice our opinion, or is it

the perceived traitor status that is bestowed on us because we don't agree with everything that President Obama does?

Your constant boxing of us as Democrats in separate compartments by what you believe and others like you is cynical and really drives more away than bring in.

You and the others that feel the way you do, you really are now walking the line on what this party can become. There is a shift, yet you refuse to accept or acknowledge it. This is not helping.

[KG]

5. apparently summers withdrew his name from consideration for something he was not be considered for.

or something.

[scarletwoman]

6. Er, not to nitpick, but I believe that "Hair on Fire" is the correct idiom in this case.

"Pants on Fire" generally refers to someone who is lying.

None of us who were aghast at the possibility of Summers being nominated to chair the Fed were lying about being aghast. Nor was it untrue that he was, in fact, under consideration.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Of course the 'trail balloon' went aloft months ago and the discussion was not centered

here on DU. Here's an article about opposition to Summers from July, for example.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/usa-fed-summers-idUSL1N0FV0T820130726

This was pretty much over by the time DU got wind of it. Folks were calling objection to Summers 'abject hatred' when several Democratic Senators had already decided to announce they would not support him.

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. While we're at it, how about 3 cheers for us "pony demanders"?