{"id":188464,"date":"2010-09-21T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/21\/larry-summers-to-resign-after-november-elections\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T23:59:00","slug":"larry-summers-to-resign-after-november-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/21\/larry-summers-to-resign-after-november-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Summers to Resign After November Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-09-21\/summers-may-leave-as-head-of-obama-s-national-economic-council-in-november.html\">Obama needed to make some change<\/a>, though it looks like they will be changes for the worse, because they are looking to replace him as director of Obama&#8217;s National Economic Council with someone who is even more of a wall street insider than Summers:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Administration officials are weighing whether to put a prominent corporate executive in the NEC director\u2019s job to counter criticism that the administration is anti-business, one person familiar with White House discussions said. White House aides are also eager to name a woman to serve in a high-level position, two people said.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because appeasing whining bankers is job 1 at the White House, I guess, because we are all just little people.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u2026 They also are concerned about finding someone with Summers\u2019 experience and stature, one person said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, if they want someone who can match Summers&#8217; record of being right, and his record of moral rectitude, I might suggest Dick Cheney, Ben Stein, or Vlad Tepes.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said many times, remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;as_q=&amp;as_epq=the+cossacks+work+for+the+czar&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;num=100&amp;lr=&amp;as_filetype=&amp;ft=i&amp;as_sitesearch=delong.typepad.com&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;as_rights=&amp;as_occt=any&amp;cr=&amp;as_nlo=&amp;as_nhi=&amp;safe=off\">the Cossacks work for the Czar<\/a>, and I think that the basic problem here is top down, not bottom up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Obama needed to make some change, though it looks like they will be changes for the worse, because they are looking to replace him as director of Obama&#8217;s National Economic Council with someone who is even more of a wall street insider than Summers: Administration officials are weighing whether to put a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1004,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-finance","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}