Comments on: Summers Out http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41894 Chris Weigant Sat, 21 Sep 2013 08:15:00 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41894 Michale - OK, now <em>that</em> was funny! Credit where credit is due... :-) -CW Michale -

OK, now that was funny!

Credit where credit is due...

:-)

-CW

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]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41850 Michale Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:20:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41850 <I>Yea, we just dated ourselves... :D</I> Which IS legal in the state of Alabama, don'tcha know... :D Yea, we just dated ourselves... :D

Which IS legal in the state of Alabama, don'tcha know... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41843 Michale Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:54:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41843 <I>OK, I knew there was something about it that rang a bell. "Solid Gold Dancers" was what I was trying to think of, you are right...</I> Yea, we just dated ourselves... :D OK, I knew there was something about it that rang a bell. "Solid Gold Dancers" was what I was trying to think of, you are right...

Yea, we just dated ourselves... :D

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41840 Chris Weigant Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:18:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41840 Michale [4] - While I agree in general that "policing your own ranks" is an important aspect of any movement or protest, I have to disagree on your larger point. Because it was just one more symptom of the larger problems of organization that OWS created for itself. TheStig [5] - I have been rolling the whole "Yellin' for Yellen" thing around, but so far it just seems a little trite... [6] - How about the Golden Oldie Age? Heh. nypoet22 - Sadly, you may be right. See: Dennis Kucinich, among others. Michale [11] - OK, I knew there was something about it that rang a bell. "Solid Gold Dancers" was what I was trying to think of, you are right... :-) -CW Michale [4] -

While I agree in general that "policing your own ranks" is an important aspect of any movement or protest, I have to disagree on your larger point. Because it was just one more symptom of the larger problems of organization that OWS created for itself.

TheStig [5] -

I have been rolling the whole "Yellin' for Yellen" thing around, but so far it just seems a little trite...

[6] -

How about the Golden Oldie Age?

Heh.

nypoet22 -

Sadly, you may be right. See: Dennis Kucinich, among others.

Michale [11] -

OK, I knew there was something about it that rang a bell. "Solid Gold Dancers" was what I was trying to think of, you are right...

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41832 Michale Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:24:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41832 <I>If the period 1870-1900 was the Gilded Age, than I submit we are living in a Solid Gold Age. </I> Visions of Solid Gold Dancers keep flashing thru my brain.. :D If the period 1870-1900 was the Gilded Age, than I submit we are living in a Solid Gold Age.

Visions of Solid Gold Dancers keep flashing thru my brain.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41831 Michale Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:08:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41831 <I>as michale pointed out, many on the left fervently hoped that obama would skew populist, based on the content of some of his speeches. but that wasn't the case, was it?</I> <B>"Could you say that again in my GOOD ear?" </B> -Jim Carrey, ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE :D as michale pointed out, many on the left fervently hoped that obama would skew populist, based on the content of some of his speeches. but that wasn't the case, was it?

"Could you say that again in my GOOD ear?"
-Jim Carrey, ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE

:D

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41825 nypoet22 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:05:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41825 <i>Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both made no secret about how much they crave Wall Street's approval, but wouldn't it be refreshing to see a Democratic candidate who didn't care and who in fact welcomed Wall Street's opposition?</i> it would be refreshing, but very unlikely to succeed. as michale pointed out, many on the left fervently hoped that obama would skew populist, based on the content of some of his speeches. but that wasn't the case, was it? money is just too entrenched in the political process for anyone to make it to the highest levels of government without clearing wall street approval first. JL Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both made no secret about how much they crave Wall Street's approval, but wouldn't it be refreshing to see a Democratic candidate who didn't care and who in fact welcomed Wall Street's opposition?

it would be refreshing, but very unlikely to succeed. as michale pointed out, many on the left fervently hoped that obama would skew populist, based on the content of some of his speeches. but that wasn't the case, was it? money is just too entrenched in the political process for anyone to make it to the highest levels of government without clearing wall street approval first.

JL

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41824 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:04:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41824 Chris, I don't really believe Geithner will end up at the Fed. Besides, I don't want anything to interfere with finishing up his book about the financial crisis. It is a shame, though. I don't believe there is anyone out there more qualified than Geithner, any way you slice it, or a more appropriate pick. Obama probably didn't try hard enough. That's my guess, anyway. :) Chris,

I don't really believe Geithner will end up at the Fed. Besides, I don't want anything to interfere with finishing up his book about the financial crisis.

It is a shame, though. I don't believe there is anyone out there more qualified than Geithner, any way you slice it, or a more appropriate pick.

Obama probably didn't try hard enough. That's my guess, anyway. :)

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41820 Michale Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:08:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41820 <I>The wealthy have never been wealthier nor more securely in control.</I> And here I thought we elected Obama and the Democrats to STOP that from happening!!! What gives?!? The wealthy have never been wealthier nor more securely in control.

And here I thought we elected Obama and the Democrats to STOP that from happening!!!

What gives?!?

]]> By: TheStig http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41818 TheStig Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:59:20 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41818 If the period 1870-1900 was the Gilded Age, than I submit we are living in a Solid Gold Age. The wealthy have never been wealthier nor more securely in control. If the period 1870-1900 was the Gilded Age, than I submit we are living in a Solid Gold Age. The wealthy have never been wealthier nor more securely in control.

]]> By: TheStig http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41810 TheStig Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:39:57 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41810 CW- I like your title, but I submit.... "Schools out for Summers" Or Everyone's Screamin' for Yellen Has a nice Rockey and Bullwinkle ring to it! CW-

I like your title, but I submit....

"Schools out for Summers"

Or

Everyone's Screamin' for Yellen

Has a nice Rockey and Bullwinkle ring to it!

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41804 Michale Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:27:35 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41804 <I>Of course, to be brutally honest, Occupy Wall Street (and all of its spinoff Occupy locations) didn't directly accomplish much in the way of concrete goals, beyond the boundaries of the park it existed in. The "from the bottom up" organization learned some brutal lessons about the difference between sloganeering and actual governing. </I> I would say that the biggest reason the OOzers didn't accomplish much is because they couldn't keep the more violent members of the group under control... Of course, to be brutally honest, Occupy Wall Street (and all of its spinoff Occupy locations) didn't directly accomplish much in the way of concrete goals, beyond the boundaries of the park it existed in. The "from the bottom up" organization learned some brutal lessons about the difference between sloganeering and actual governing.

I would say that the biggest reason the OOzers didn't accomplish much is because they couldn't keep the more violent members of the group under control...

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41800 Chris Weigant Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:24:39 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41800 LizM - Give it up. Geithner's repeatedly said he's not interested. You are correct, he probably was choice #1, but he's turned it down over and over again. Give up the dream. It ain't gonna happen... :-) -CW LizM -

Give it up. Geithner's repeatedly said he's not interested. You are correct, he probably was choice #1, but he's turned it down over and over again.

Give up the dream. It ain't gonna happen...

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41798 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:17:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41798 With the withdrawal of Larry Summers, President Obama's <I>second</I> choice for Fed Chairman, my hopes are being raised once again that another former Secretary of the Treasury will finally accept the job. Secretary Geithner must surely be near finished his memoir by now or will be by January - an advance copy of which I believe I have well earned, ahem - and will, with any luck, happily reconsider extending his public service career despite working for an ungrateful public. With the withdrawal of Larry Summers, President Obama's second choice for Fed Chairman, my hopes are being raised once again that another former Secretary of the Treasury will finally accept the job.

Secretary Geithner must surely be near finished his memoir by now or will be by January - an advance copy of which I believe I have well earned, ahem - and will, with any luck, happily reconsider extending his public service career despite working for an ungrateful public.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2013/09/16/summers-out/#comment-41797 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:14:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=7931#comment-41797 With the withdrawal of Larry Summers, President Obama's <I>second</I> choice for Fed Chairman, my hopes are being raised once again that another former Secretary of the Treasury will finally accept the job. Surely he must be near finished his memoir by now or will be January - an advance copy of which I believe I have well earned, ahem - and will happily reconsider extending his public service career despite working for an ungrateful public. With the withdrawal of Larry Summers, President Obama's second choice for Fed Chairman, my hopes are being raised once again that another former Secretary of the Treasury will finally accept the job.

Surely he must be near finished his memoir by now or will be January - an advance copy of which I believe I have well earned, ahem - and will happily reconsider extending his public service career despite working for an ungrateful public.

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