The Rats Begin Leaving Obama’s Sinking Ship

biggovernment.com ^ | Aug. 10, 2010 | Paul A. Rahe

[PROCON]

Ten months back, at the very end of September, I posted online a brief piece entitled Obama’s Wrecking Crew, in which I drew attention to a column in The New York Post in which Charles Gasparino reported two items of interest. First, that the titans of Wall Street – men such as Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Greg Fleming (once at Merrill Lynch), JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, and Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein – were beginning, in private, to express grave misgivings concerning the Obama administration’s stewardship of the economy. And, second, that these insiders were also telling him that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers were complaining to them that they had almost no say in policy decisions. “Obama,” these two were said to have lamented, “is acting as if he has a blank check to do what he wants, while ignoring the longterm costs of his policies.”

[hinckley buzzard]

the very end of September, I posted online a brief pie ce ... the titans of Wall Street – men such as Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Greg Fleming (once at Merrill Lynch), JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, and Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein – were beginning, to express grave misgivings concerning the Obama administration’s stewardship of the economy.

I'd like to know why these a-holes took nine whole months to discern the blatantly obvious.

"Titans of Wall Street" my ass. Gibbering elitist jerkoff dupes is more like it.

[Emile]

“Obama...is acting as if he has a blank check to do what he wants, while ignoring the longterm costs of his policies.”

If this complaint is true, Geithner and Summers learned the hard way what we've always known: that communists always know, better than economists, better than ordinary people, better than anyone else, how to run an economy. That's why they've always been so successful at it.

/Major sarc

[Aria]

Instead of keeping it to themselves maybe they should go on TV and tell the world that Obama is driving us off a cliff...and that you have to consider that this is intentional.

[flowerplough]

“acting as if he has a blank check to do what he wants, while ignoring the longterm costs of his policies.”

A Democrat’s Democrat. JFK & LBJ would be proud.

[februus]

The super-illusionist Obama ploy, huh? America would be better served if Washington DC & Wall Street were isolated and disposed of like two infected limbs.

[mamelukesabre]

Sure, they’re leaving obama til the november elections. Then after that they start kissing his backside again.

[!1776!]

Instead of keeping it to themselves maybe they should go on TV and tell the world that Obama is driving us off a cliff...

And if true, hiding it should be considered a conspiracyto be dealt with by applicable laws. If they have hid it - then they are conspirators by definition.

[SandRat]

[PROCON]

Good one, Sandy!..LOL!

[Louis Foxwell]

Caliphate Hussein must bring the US to its proverbial knees if he is to fulfill his ambition. Nothing else matters to him. It is his vision and his alone that informs his every word and deed. He is close, so very close, to ending the Democratic Republic that has been the cornerstone of our culture. Just one more SC judge will turn this nation over to Shariah law. It is that close.

[gotribe]

I think the Big Money will take care of him as soon as theirs is out of the crossfire. Impeachment or otherwise, hussein is cooked. We’ll be better off with Biden / Hillary leading, at least they don’t hate America.

[Windflier]

Instead of keeping it to themselves maybe they should go on TV and tell the world that Obama is driving us off a cliff.

I saw Timothy Geithner speaking on television recently. His body language, facial expressions, and eye movements SCREAMED corruption, betrayal, and fraud, of historic magnitude.

The man looked so guilty, I thought he'd break down any minute and either run, or beg for forgiveness.