Is Larry Summers Leaving???

[monmouth]

I'm posting from the middle of the article, the part I found most interesting. The entire article is a good read..

But what really makes me believe that Summers won't stick around is that all this Machiavellian intrigue has failed to win him what he wanted most: power. Summers gets plenty of presidential face time, but he's not the nexus of White House activity that everyone expected him to be, and that doesn't sit well according to the Summers associates I spoke with. In my Atlantic piece, I go into considerable detail about how Geithner, and not Summers, came to be the key person on financial matters. But it wasn't just finance. Energy and health care care were also routed elsewhere, to Carol Browner and Nancy Ann DeParle. The hand-holding of anxious lawmakers that became an integral part of the NEC job under Summers's mentor, Bob Rubin, is being handled by another economist, Mark Zandi, a former McCain adviser. Marc points out that Summers does "ride herd over the administration's infrastructure renewal program." But I'd wager that infrastructure renewal is not what Larry Summers pictured for himself when he arrived at the White House. The question in my mind is not why Summers would leave, but why he would stay?



Complete article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/07/larry-summers-...

[DJ13]

1. .......

[marmar]

2. Don't let the doorknob hit his well-padded ass....

[HughMoran]

3. Fine with me

You can go Larry :hi:

[Greyhound]

4. Who cares? The damage is done and he and Rahm and Timeh can all

go reap their rewards any time now. Just as with the republicons, they got in and took care of what needed to be done quickly so that you never had a chance to stop them.

The epilogue is irrelevant.

[bvar22]

5. The horses are gone.

Time to close the gate.