Good Riddance, Larry Summers! Obama should appoint Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz to replace him.

[Better Believe It]

Now Obama has a chance to put a progressive economist in. How about Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz?
Good Riddance, Larry Summers!
By Matthew Rothschild
September 22, 2010

Summers has a resume of disaster.

.... when he was Clinton’s Treasury secretary, he helped deregulate Wall Street, which led to the current crisis.

Summers helped land Obama in the fix he’s in today: unemployment’s very high, resentment at the banks is even higher, and few people can feel the economic benefits that Obama and Summers say they’ve brought about.

So adios, Larry.

Now Obama has a chance to put a progressive economist in.

How about Paul Krugman of the New York Times?

Or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia?

Both have Nobel Prizes in economics.

Obama sure could use their wisdom, their tenacity, and their humanity now.

And so could we.

http://www.progressive.org/wx092210.html

[LAGC]

1. Hell yes! Replace Geithner too!

Show us real change we can believe in!

[ThomCat]

2. Obama should clean house.

He had a lot of progressive and liberal advisers during his campaign that he banished as soon as he was elected.

Suddenly he had a lot of moderate and conservative corporate-friendly advisers once he was getting ready to take office.

Bring back the progressive advisers! Show that the progressive stances he took during the campaign weren't just lies manufactured to win an election.

[SugarShack]

3. Yes...he should ask Krugman....

[Better Believe It]

4. Krugman might not accept but I think Joseph Stiglitz would and he might be better!

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Too much "thinking" and "math" and "being right"

from that crowd.

I'm betting on another Crypto-Republican.