Posted on 11/02/2009 8:27:18 AM PST by FromLori
Sounds a bit late, but at least some movement away from us all having to wear Mao suits. American Spectator tells the story:
White House senior adviser Susan Crawford resigned last week to little fanfare, but some White House insiders say her leaving may reveal growing tensions inside the Obama Administration about just how radical the administration has become in developing policies.
Crawford, who was one of the leading voices during the Obama transition period, and then stayed on as Obama's key adviser on technology and communications policy, was credited with putting in place the general policy overlays in those subject areas that guided many of the Administration's hiring and appointments to the Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department. She was a strong proponent of Net Neutrality regulations, which would allow the government to regulate the Internet, and in her role sitting on the president's councils on economic policy, she supported strong government interventions and controls of private business.
But White House sources say that she ran afoul of senior White House economics adviser Larry Summers, who claimed he and other senior Obama officials were unaware of how radical the draft Net Neutrality regulations were when they were initially internally circulated to Obama administration officials several weeks ago. "All of sudden Larry is getting calls from CEOs, Wall Street folks he talks to, Republicans and Democrats, asking him what the Administration is doing with the policies, and he isn't sure what they're talking about," says one White House aide. "He felt blind-sided, and Susan was one of those people who heard about it." In the end, the proposed regulations were slightly moderated from the original language FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a Crawford ally, circulated.
Crawford resigned, citing the need to return to her tenured position at the University of Michigan law school...,.
Crawford's exit comes at a time when some Obama Administration aides, after seeing the fallout from the resignation of Van Jones and the spotlight placed on leftists inside the administration, like Anita Dunn, wonder if it is too late to pull back many of the more radical aides now placed in a number of different cabinet level departments, including the Department of Justice, and the Energy and Education departments, and federal agencies. "They haven't done us any good on any level," says the White House aide. "And now they are just a bunch of targets on our back that we can't shake."
How pathetically bad and dangerous has the administration got to be when Larry Summers is the voice of reason?
Sounds like someone is starting to see the 2010, and 2012 writing on the wall.
<It only assures that the far Left can’t lose their jobs
And it assures right wing profs like myself that they can’t get fired for their opinions and beliefs.
The Voice of Reason, or a bureaucrat who didn't like being dissed via being left off the FORWARD TO list?
He might be a living fossil, a pro-American liberal Democrat.
Exactly! Many college administrators are way left of center and would purge conservatives profs and students if they could. Tenure and the threats of law suits stops them.
This administration is so far Left that Summers is actually a moderate in that bunch.
I am sure Larry Summers doesn’t think of himself as a bureaucrat! His head is much bigger than that, in fact, it is rumored he has trouble getting through doorways. And notice who was called with the complaints: Summers, not the ideologue-policy wonk with no real world experience whom BO has put in charge of these things. What a farce of an administration.
I remember the whole Larry Summers uproar. If he is pro-American, and I really don’t know that to be the case, his appointment to the BO administration must have been to provide cover, not because they really wanted and valued his input.
This must be one huge bus. How many people will fit under this thing?
Perhaps Summers learned something from the 2005 Harvard fiasco.
Remember the trouble Summers got into at Harvard? It's scary when the Clintonistas are the voice of moderation.
Sorry about the double post.
This is only the beginning of Obama's radicals being found out, leaving the American's to send them packing. Obama is a blooming Marxist....there is no argument about that....how much of our United States Constitution will he have to destroy before we mere citizens began to storm our State Capitols demanding he be removed from the Oval Office?
Oh, Intercourse...
No problem didn’t even notice and wouldn’t care anyway.
No problem didn’t even notice and wouldn’t care anyway. I am happy people are reading these things and finding out the truth.
**White House senior adviser Susan Crawford resigned last week to little fanfare, but some White House insiders say her leaving may reveal growing tensions inside the Obama Administration about just how radical the administration has become in developing policies.**
I wonder if any of Glenn Beck’s coverage enabled Summers to do this. Or is he taking credit for Beck’s work?
Indeed. I believe he holds the trademark for the phrase Smartest Guy In The Room.
Crawford is gone,and now it is Julius Genachowski’s turn. The FCC should be of concern to all freedom of speech advocates.
Unfortunately, the other 300 million of us aren't interested having our world destroyed to appease these idiots. The baby boom leftie Earth muffin brigade from Berkley, et all are about to crash and burn. This is the high water mark for the 1960s Leftist crazies and its all down hill from here. The American people will crush Leftism because they simply don't give a sh*t about it or any other political system that interferes with Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I sincerely hop so but I see little resistance thus far.
I sincerely hope so but I see little resistance thus far.
If only more democRats were actually “liberals” (ie, supportive of individual liberty) instead of simply communists trying to re-label themselves.
That is so true and with that being said, who we really need to watch out for is Congress. They are getting away with so much crap because we're all focusing on BO, which is the way he likes it of course.
I mean, who is really pushing the health care reform? Obama didn't write no 2000 pages of legislation. It was Congress that did.
Demanding WE leave the friggin Union if the federal government isn't dismantled and reorganized in to a weak and ineffective vassal of the states...
Pelosi and her communist radical staff members and the "progressives" are at the core of this mess. They control Congress and they are ramming this through before they lose power in 2010. Its a frantic end game in the House right now. Call your SENATORS!!!
You can drain the cesspool of leftism, but 0bama’s been marinating in it for so many decades that the flavor will always be there.
And NO, I'm not endorsing Hillary. I'd be sleeping a whole lot better at night if she were, however...
Let’s see what happens in the elections tomorrow. If it breaks our way, soft Dems will fold on ObamaCare. If it breaks the other way, we got issues...
Yes...these elections hold some hope.
Regarding ROTC...
Lieutenant Colonel Brian Baker, who is a professor of military science at MIT and commander of the Army battalion in which Harvard cadets participate, praised Summers as he introduced him to the audience. "Larry Summers and Dean Lewis have done more for ROTC in the past 12 months than any leader at Harvard in the past 40 years," he said of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=214996
Regarding antisemitism, Summers said...
I found it shocking and deeply troubling that a substantial group of faculty members at major universities would propose seriously, and indeed seek to pressure, for universities like Harvard to sell, to divest, any stock, any company that did any business with Israel. It seemed to me that such a boycott that singled out Israel was profoundly misguided. And so I raised the question of whether this action, because of its singling out of Israel, was antisemitic in its effect if not necessarily in its intent.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/?content=20070215
You got that right. Maybe Larry was just singling her out because she is a woman. He does have a history of 'genderism', you know . . .
We really need to eliminate “tenure” in Congress, by imposing term limits. That would clean out the McCains and many other RINOs along with Demonrats like Bawdy Fwanks, Robert Byrd, Nancy Pelosi, et al.
Doesn’t sound like a real policy dispute to me. Crawfords ‘sin’, according to the article, is in not keeping her boss fully informed. Convenient excuse? Only if the draft proposal for “Net Neutrality” is entirely revamped or scrapped. And that does not appear to be the case — yet.
That pretty much sums up the entire Obama administration.
“When Summers was president of Harvard, he supported ROTC. And he lost the job as a result of a politically incorrect question about the ability of women to excel in mathematics.
He might be a living fossil, a pro-American liberal Democrat.”
On campus, there are 2 groups: Liberals and leftists. So an Obama liberal Dem could actually be insufficiently left for some faculty.
Conservatives are maybe 1% of the faculty.
Exactly. The political spectrum ranges from Mao on the left to Hubert Humphrey on the right.
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