MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Larry Summers on 'How to avoid a lost decade'
By we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 12:45pm |Some nerve. But he loves the payroll tax holiday for employers; advises $200 billion for it. What an asshat.
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Nerve? Dunno. It is great that stimulus is back getting some play. And the emerging evidence is that Summers wasn't against stimulus, but merely brokering deals between two opposing views in the administration: Timmy "government-doesn't-create-jobs" Geithner against Goolsbee-Romer-Bernstein.
I think by next year, with the banks back on the ropes and no recovery in sight, Geithner will be recognized as the worst government bureaucrat since Don Rumsfeld.
by Cho on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 4:23pm
Don't cheer me up.
Rumsfeld's flaws were so widely-understood that he spent 40 years in and out of Washington.
by quinn esq on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:32pm
Very fair and pragmatic of you, Mr. Cho. Setting aside the fact that there could be far more direct uses for the $200 billion; even he recommends not withholding infrastructure investment, whatever anyone really means by that beyond paving highways any more, but names payroll taxes as the best beneficiary.
He also boosts the idea that Obama should lift 'burdensome regulatory laws' that might impede business' or something, ususally code for jettisoning something in the name of safety and health, IMO.
But even more I pictured his major parts in pushing for Graham/Leach/Bliley and CFMA, trashing Brooksley Born with vicious innuendo and skullduggery, all of which helped banks take a free ride on the Anti-regulatory Express, and leading to the incredible Shock Doctrine tax-payer funded bailout of Wall Street that cost trillions in losses for everyone but Wall Street.
That's what I meant by 'having some nerve'.
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:42pm
That said... time for a sanity break. ;-)
by quinn esq on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:57pm
Uh-oh; did my rant give me away, LOL? There weren't any puppies to kick around, I guess.
Thank you; you think I should take a break and watch the Polar Bear in the Lupine Field for an hour or two? Maybe put on some Mozart?
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:06pm
Well, Quinn; not being exactly in the Mozart kind of mood, I'm goin' with this:
"When the stars make you drool... just like pasta fasoul..." They just don't write love songs like that any more!
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:39pm
I think we need a blog movement to nominate Dino as Geithner's replacement.
Seriously.
Let's see how many million signatures we can get of people who would prefer a dead drunken crooner to a live addled banker to run the US Treasury.
Here's my X -
X
Co-signers? (Or co-singers?)
by quinn esq on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:56pm
X (As long as there's free pasta fasoul...) Dead Dino still loves the Middle East; knows where all the bodies are buried, too. And that's a Good Thing.
Ahhhh... my papa would dance me around the room with my feet on top of his enormous polished shoes....
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:15pm
Polar bears, pffft.
Maybe this will help (Jared Bernstein airing his linen)...
by Cho on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:19pm
LOL! Hard to spit tacks while laughing sooo hard, Mr. Cho! Love the title, but it does look a wee bit like Pierce Brosnan, no? (All my gay friends are hot for Brosnan, by the by.)
Thank you; I was actually hunting for that photo of the polar bear that was being hunted; the guy hid from him in his truck, and the bear crashed right through the windshield and nailed him dead.
"Daddy; why is the man using so much toilet paper? You always say 'only four squares!'"
p.s. What is up with Bernstein as the liberal's New Darling, anyway?
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:34pm
Yeah. What is it with artists and their non-environmentally friendly attitude towards toilet paper...?
(yup. more high art)
by Cho on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:41pm
I hope people noted what happened here.
It took less than 45 minutes for you and Stardust to drag us from my perfectly wonderful picture of a polar bear in a field of lupins... down through naked dudes doing their underparts... then Dean Martin being drunken Dean Martin... all the way down to some French chick doing toilet-time.
Thanks, you two.
Basically, you two are the LeBron and D-Wade of bloggers.
by quinn esq on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:52pm
Aw, man. I think we're more like the Deadpool and Spiderman of bloggers...
by Cho on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:00pm
Nope; we're the Boris and Natasha of bloggers. (Who's D-Wade?)
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:20pm
He used to be a basketball player, dahlink.
by quinn esq on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:28pm
No, thank you, dahlink. He and his homies got sent to the urinals, I see googling...
by we are stardust on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:16pm