Goolsbee, ANOTHER Obama Insider to Resign

[marshabar1]

Austan Goolsbee, Obama's top economic adviser will step down. Couldn't have anything to do with that dismal jobs report now could it?

This leaves only Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner as the last remaining original Obama appointee. Of course G.E. is still there, although the offshore outsourcer left along with Larry Summers.

Larry Summers, former director of the White House National Economic Council, stepped down at the end of last year to return to his teaching job at Harvard University.

Christina Romer, his predecessor as CEA chair, left last August, also to return to academia, and Peter Orszag resigned as White House budget director last July.

While Goolsbee was better than others, unfortunately he stayed in denial on the trade deficit. He also denied the jobs crisis to the point of proclaiming this month as a bump in the road to recovery. Literally the BLS commissioner had to correct him as well as others echoing such feel good don't worry sentiment, indirectly. Sorry folks, the BLS says the pathetic jobs data is not due to weather. The jobs crisis is clearly not a blip, not a bump in the road.

Most interesting Goolsbee hits the road back to the University of Chicago immediately after that fumble play.

No replacement was announced although, we'll probably get yet another corporate lobbyist wet dream as the next Council of Economic Advisers chair, complete with bad trade agendas, offshore outsourcing and labor arbitrage. After all, that's the puppet suit which comes with the job.

The Presidential Council of Economic Advisers Chair replacement needs Senate confirmation though, but don't worry, assuredly Goldman Sachs has someone on stand-by.

www.economicpopulist.org/content/and-then-there-was-one-obamas-top-economic-adviser-goolsbee-step-down

Is he going to run out of Chicago boys?

Axelrod and Plouffe handled the big politics. But who has been handling policy?

Obama has kept that information to himself. During the campaign, the University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee appeared in stories describing him as a top adviser.

The stories appeared because the free trade advocate Goolsbee was said to have explained away (almost certainly correctly) his candidate's desire to renegotiate NAFTA as mere political posturing. The response of the Obama campaign? That Goolsbee wasn't remotely an insider.

Yet the truth is that Goolsbee had been vetting most of Obama's policy.

timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/11/who-isobamas-in.html

Why do these whack jobs get to pollute the minds of American children?

[deziloooooo]

Gates is leaving the end of the month too, but since he has been wanting to leave for a long time , having been in Washington, first with Bush then with Obama, I can't blame him and thank him for his service, I feel he has been a fine administrator and we were lucky to have him there as long as we did.

[ed1066]

Good riddance, too bad Obama will replace him with another radical left-wing anti-Semite...

[marshabar1]

Jun 7, 2011 18:27:25 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Good riddance, too bad Obama will replace him with another radical left-wing anti-Semite...

I know, but he's getting deeper and deeper into the barrel. How long will regular Americans fail to notice the fishy stench?

[ed1066]

Jun 7, 2011 18:31:00 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

Jun 7, 2011 18:27:25 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Good riddance, too bad Obama will replace him with another radical left-wing anti-Semite...

I know, but he's getting deeper and deeper into the barrel. How long will regular Americans fail to notice the fishy stench?

Real Americans have been smelling it for a long time. "Progressives" and other Obama-zombies have had their noses cut off, sharia-style, by the twisted hand of fundamentalist liberalism...

[Deleted]

Are any of Obama's originals still in place? Didn't quite go as planned, did it? Must be a shock to Obama......

[deziloooooo]

Jun 7, 2011 18:27:25 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Good riddance, too bad Obama will replace him with another radical left-wing anti-Semite...

Can I ask who you are referring to ed..not Gates by any chancce?

[deziloooooo]

Jun 7, 2011 18:27:25 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Good riddance, too bad Obama will replace him with another radical left-wing anti-Semite...

Realize you are not referring to Gates ed..so my only response to your post , my typical for so many of yours...

[deziloooooo]

Jun 7, 2011 19:20:21 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

Are any of Obama's originals still in place? Didn't quite go as planned, did it? Must be a shock to Obama......

Krickett that cabinet members leave, sometimes replaced by POTUS is not unusual..the hours are grueling, the power and prestige wears off quickly, burn out happens, families suffer and as strenuous as a marriage can be, this type of job does not add to the happiness of no matte how many State Dinners one may go to, even those after a while don't make up for the stress on a relationship and some times what is thought as a good fit, just isn't there..to read any more into it is just being naive and uninformed IMHO.

Now Gaddafis people moving out..abandoning ship, actually going over to the other side and speaking out against him and his regime, now that is a different story.