Bernie Sanders To Larry Summers: more or less go to hell

[Ichingcarpenter]

In a statement Sen. Sanders said, “I applaud Larry Summers for withdrawing his name from consideration. The truth is that it was unlikely he would have been confirmed by the Senate. What the American people want now is a Fed chairman prepared to stand up to the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, not a Wall Street insider whose deregulation efforts helped pave the way for a horrendous financial crisis and the worst economic downturn in the country since the Great Depression. The Fed now must help develop policies which create millions of decent-paying jobs and rebuild the middle class.”

As Summers wrote in a letter to the president, the simple reality was that he was never going to be confirmed,

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/15/bernie-sanders-larry-summers-door-hit-backside.html


Ha... Ha.....

[Stargazer09]

1. I love Bernie

He's right, again. We don't want another greedy punk coming in and making things worse for our country.

[ProSense]

2. Repealing Glass-Steagall will come back to haunt anyone from the Clinton administration. n/t

[SugarShack]

4. Well removing Glass/Steagall was inserted in a VETO PROOF BILL.

Presidents come and go. Congress seems to stay. Thirty years of shit, I'd think people would get it. The "mid-terms" as they are coined to be the least exciting, are actually the most important.

And, I'm tired of repeating it, to everyone. Get a real congress, and it won't matter so much who the preznit is.....

[ProSense]

6. So you dislike Summers for his role, but you're attempting to defend Clinton

who said he had no-regrets about repealing it?

[pnwmom]

8. If the bill was veto-proof, what difference would it have made? n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

17. I don't know, maybe he could have done something crazy...

like stand on principle and force congress to override his veto.

[Vanje]

14. Summers, (and Geithner too) were Clinton's creatures

They both were on Clinton's economic team, before they were on Obama's economic team.

[bvar22]

16. Nothing really "changed".

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[awoke_in_2003]

18. And will be on the next Clinton team...

if we are silly enough to nominate Hillary.

[rhett o rick]

20. Unless we can overcome Citizens United, I dont see a chance to keep

another Clinton out of the presidential race. Clinton vs. Christie = win-win for the 1%.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Very true. It has probably...

already been decided- the ensuing months are just theater

[SugarShack]

3. I love Bernie too! The question here is a character flaw in the president to even suggest Summers.

[ProSense]

5. Summers wasn't the nominee. n/t

[corkhead]

10. who said he was?

[ljm2002]

11. That is undeniably true...

...he never made it that far.

Are you denying he was on the short list? If you are denying that, then please explain what he withdrew from this weekend. I seem to remember it was a fairly big news story when he removed his name from... something.

[rhett o rick]

21. You are 100% correct. But what point are you trying to make? That Pres Obama didnt love him

some Summers? The President is so up-in the Wall Street gang it's funny. And there is Ms. Clinton. Elect her and kiss the middle class good bye.

[cui bono]

24. Do you eat Energizer batteries for breakfast?

It's astounding how you never stop.

[indepat]

19. See it as nothing more than fortifying the establishment by maintaining the status quo of

benefiting the wealthy and large corporations to the detriment of all others, to wit: welfare for the 1% and misery for a goodly portion of the 99%.

[FreakinDJ]

7. Summers is a "Disaster Capitolist"

Create the disaster and profit from it

[gopiscrap]

9. Thank you Senator Sanders!!!

[NealK]

12. K&R

[KansDem]

13. Bernie Sanders sounds like the guy who not only can tell you to go to Hell...

...in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip,* but will help you pack as well!

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*[font size="1"]Winston Churchill, “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
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[Enthusiast]

15. K&R................nt

[Skittles]

23. PREACH IT BERNIE

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK OF BUSINESS AS USUAL

[cui bono]

25. And what does that tell you about the man who would consider him for that position?

A whole hell of a lot.

[orpupilofnature57]

26. Bernie is Thomas Jefferson .