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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-27-09 01:09 PM Original message |
Geithener is a distraction. It is probably Summers that has to go. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-27-09 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. They're both worthless |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-27-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Geithner has more power, tho....correct? People listen to Sumners, but Geithner actually |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Sumners is Geithner's mentor |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. But Sumners has no real authority to enact anything, right? Yes, I know Geithner used to work under |
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hulka38 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-27-09 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. They both must go. I still marvel at the audacity of appointing those two in the first place. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. I have enormous disdain for Larry Summers. He spent his academic career legitimizing |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 02:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. He is also a fucking misogynist. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. Why settle for one when you can toss both of them? |
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appal_jack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
7. k&r for tossing both Wall St. thieves |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. "Wrong man for the job. " |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
9. They both need to go - I give them equal |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 02:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. They do. Geither and Summers are a pair of lousy bookends. |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. They both should be replaced by Elizabeth Warren |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. She gets my vote in a heartbeat. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. Seeing as how so much of what Summers has advocated strongly for has FAILED |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
15. Ugh, you don't know who needs to go. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 05:28 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Actually, there are track records |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 06:16 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Yes and Warren's is quite impressive |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 06:35 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Agreed |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. She's not an economist. She's not. She's a lawyer. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 06:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I don't know |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Am I defending him? n/t |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Economists advocate crap like that a lot because they get so wrapped up in their |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. +1 |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. you will not hear everything from each of them. |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
24. fire both of them |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
27. I can tolerate Geithner, but Summers has to go. |
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