STOP Robert RUBIN Before He KILLS Again!

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When is enough enough?:wtf:



Robert Rubin is poisoning Washington again.


The former Treasury Secretary who presided over the nearly-fatal deregulation of the financial industry -- then made $126 million nearly killing Citigroup -- had been keeping an appropriately low profile in the nation's capital ever since everything he wrought went pear-shaped.


But now he's back, and once again trying to influence public policy.


On Friday he made his third major (and apology-free) Washington appearance in two weeks, delivering opening remarks at a conference that his pet think tank, the Hamilton Project, co-sponsored with the liberal Center for American Progress.


But the last thing Washington needs right now is another infusion of Rubinomics -- by which I mean the combination of deregulatory zeal, deficit obsession, free tradeism and general coziness with fat-cat Wall Street bankers that Rubin epitomizes.


It's long been troubling that so many of Obama's top economic advisers are former Rubin proteges, but the return and rehabilitation of the man himself is particularly unwelcome right now. Mild signs of recovery aside, we remain very much in the midst of an unemployment crisis that is devastating American families and that requires active, urgent government intervention -- not hand-wringing about the federal budget deficit. Financial regulation, to be effective, needs to limit what Rubin and his friends want to be able to do.


The Rubin effect could be felt at Friday's event, which was ostensibly about "The Future of American Jobs," but which -- with a few notable exceptions -- lacked a sense of urgency about the current unemployment crisis, focusing instead on long-terms "structural problems."


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1. I just had a scary thought

Rahm leaves the WH to run for Mayor, and Obama selects Rubin to fill his position.

He's out trying to resurrect his tarnished image in DC, which leads me to think he's angling to get near to the President again.

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2. Thats some scary thought.

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3. Yeah it is, sorry!

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4. "...so many of Obama's top economic advisers are former Rubin proteges..."

....our great fearless hoi polli President sure has wrap himself in melt-down scum....

....I guess they feel we're too dumb to notice....and as they say, "...too dumb to notice, too dumb to vote."

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5. You are bang on! Brings to mind a cliche about NOT ' foolin all of the people all of the time '