{"id":193673,"date":"2008-11-25T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/25\/obama-staffing-update-14\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:16:00","slug":"obama-staffing-update-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/25\/obama-staffing-update-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Staffing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Geithner as <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122740604807650973.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop\">Secretary of the Treasury<\/a>, and Lawrence Summers, aka the human stain, as director of the National Economic Council.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Summers, crap.  This man leaves a trail of misery wherever he goes.<\/p>\n<p>Melody Barnes, <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2008\/11\/melody_barnes_to_run_domestic_policy_council.php\"> to head the Domestic Policy Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Romer as <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/24\/obama-names-romer-to-chair-council-of-economic-advisers\/\">head of the Council of Economic Advisers<\/a>, she&#8217;s cut her teeth in the study of depression era economic, like, here is the scary part, Ben Bernanke.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Orszag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/23\/america\/profiles.php\">director of the Office of Management and Budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury, and Lawrence Summers, aka the human stain, as director of the National Economic Council. Lawrence Summers, crap. This man leaves a trail of misery wherever he goes. Melody Barnes, to head the Domestic Policy Council. Christina Romer as head of the Council of Economic Advisers, she&#8217;s cut her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193673"}],"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=193673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}