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Here is something weird, and thank you, First Read, for pointing this out recently: the press has already found out the identity of like half of the future Obama cabinet. And yet we have no idea who’s being vetted to fill one of the most important positions of all — Treasury Secretary. What is up with that HMMM? Will it be the kindly ancient giant Paul Volcker? The stouthearted Kansan Republican Sheila Bair? The repellent NAFTA whore Larry Summers? Nobody knows — or at least, nobody’s telling! Our prediction: Ron Paul, who will unleash a “money bomb” on the United States economy in February of 2009 and then sell us to the nation of Galt’s Gulch for 50 Ameros. [Washington Post]
If you want to share your opinions/suggestions (keep it clean) with Obama’s transition team, there is a web form:
http://www.change.gov/page/s/contact
John Edwards for Trim Coordinator!
Maybe he’s weighing appointing Jim Cramer.
Pac Man Jones could ‘make it rain.’
truck nutz 4 0bammahz!!1!??!@!!
How about Richie Rich? (Not Mark Rich. Or Rich Rodriguez.)
…I nominate Scrooge McDuck.
I thought Paulson is our benevolent treasury-secretary-for-life?
Yay! Gold Standard here we come, followed by Great Depressions 2, 3, and 4 and a halfhearted version 5 where Ron Paul has to fight his protege in the street for a piece of dog meat.
The New Republic loves Larry Summers, so he can’t be all bad, can he?
I think he’ll pick a Treasury Secretary when we actually have some money again.
Hopey’s working on Warren Buffet, but it’s hard to meet his salary demands.
Sarah Palin to the rescue
TGY: Actually, Warren Buffett gets a salary of $100,000 now, so a cabinet-level pay grade (currently $191,300) would be a real step up for him.
The team of Paul Wolfowitz and Dominique Strauss-Kahn: experienced in international finance + could have threesomes with Napolitano or whoever.
WANTED: one miracle worker with masochistic tendencies (to actually enjoy being mauled by angry congress critters: see Kucinich, Dennis).
We haz a Treasury?
Serolf Divad:
Yes! Especially after his “Buy” on Bear Stearns and his near panic attack meltdown in Sept.
Jim is definitely the steady sane hand the world needs to run the US America Treasury, a fully owned and operated subsidiary of the Fed, Freemasons, the Bilderberg Guild, Aliens and, of course the world’s number one whipping boys, the Jews.
InKnockYouUs: “miracle worker with masochistic tendencies” is, oddly enough, also the exact job description for the Secretaries of State, Defence, Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the Presidency, and basically everything else in the executive branch. The only exceptions are Agriculture (where the only requirement is that he be Iowan) and the Vice Presidency (where it’s only necessary to be too old and too second rate to pose any competition to the President).
ManchuCandidate: psst… it’s impolitic to say “the Jews” are running world finance nowadays. The preferred term is “Goldman Sachs”.
This appointment has been delayed because the 12 Jew Bankers are still fighting amongst themselves who has to emerge out of the shadows and take the job.
Thank you, Sara, for the wikipedia link to Atlas Shrugged. Up to this point I had no idea what that book was about.
Seriously, why does Ayn Rand have any reputation at all as a writer?
Just put the names of every American who owns a private jet in a hat and pick one already. Then kill the rest.
Barry realizes at this rate, there won’t be any need for a “Treasury” come Jan.
Which of the Somali pirates is the best at math? That’s your guy.
jagorev: No, the fact is we do run everything- finance, media, agriculture,weaponry, gaming and Apple and the real surprise is Obama was never a muslin - he is Jewish- we(the Jews) all know his real first name is Baruch. I will be the Secretary of Treasury because I am Jewish and I just want to be.
I nominate the Somali Pirates! Clearly, they know the true worth of everything!
Cape Clod: Who needs writing skills when you have a deplorable worldview?
hedgehog: Damn — I was too slow!
Frankly he needs someone who’ll have sway with all the various hobo councils that will rise up when centralized government is eradicated. It’ll have to be someone well versed in agrarian barter economics. You can’t rush these important decisions.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Robespierre - because heads need to rolll
uhm, that’s like trying to find a a new ship captain for the titanic a few minutes after it hit the iceberg.
all the possible captains were too busy navigating their way to the life boats before the women and children hogged them for themselves.
Cape Clod:
For about the same reason L. Ron Hubbard does.
Just as long as whoever he picks doesn’t pass out on the podium from oldness. That would be a fresh start.
“Leaks” is the new “sources.”
Sources have told me that Peru will declare war on Kyrgyzstan in February, and in March Mattel will announce that all Monopoly money is henceforward to be treated as real money.
Sorry to burst this item’s bubble, but: There have been literally dozens–as in, more than 24–news stories in just the past three weeks noting at least SIX PEOPLE who are indeed being “vetted”–there’s a word that needs to be retired already–or, considered, discussed, reviewed and talked about, as the next Secretary of the Treasury. At least six people, including Sommers, a Federal Reserve official out of New York, several high-ranking government finance folks, some industry veterans, and some veterans from the Clinton administration. They are all being looked into, discussed and being considered for the position of Treasury Secretary.
With upcoming trillion-dollar deficits, this is going to be like hiring an armed guard for an empty warehouse full of fucking radon.
shortsshortsshorts: People don’t realize that whole thing was just a gag. Later on, at the hospital, the first thing he said when he regained consciousness was,
“THE ARISTOCRATS!”
Everyone cracked up, nurses had orgasms and nearby old people dumped in their pajamas.
Cape Clod: Maybe you should read it? Just sayin’ I happen to love that book (everyone will go ahead and shit on me now) and I am as liberal and progressive as they come. Yeah, she was way off on some things, like her views on laissez-faire capitalism, but there is also the supreme notion that reason, rationality, and intellect are ethicallly imperative. Blah, Blah, Blah.
BUTSEKS!!!!
Deepthroat: Of reason, purpose and self-esteem, I’ll take……..well, I’d replace purpose with buttseks.
checkonechecktwo: Naturally. Buttseks trumps all.
Deepthroat: I see you had a recent meeting with some old friends:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081120/NEWS/811200327/1348/NEWS09?Title=A__Deep_Throat__reunion
FinallyHappy: Pick me! Pick me! I love my bling-filled matzah!
On a related note, here’s an absolutely true story: I taught at a uni in Europe a few years back and an Ethiopian colleague asked me to take over some business/mba classes. I politely noted that I know jack-all about business. He laughed and said “It’s okay, its in your blood.”
FACE: My little red jacket turns you on, no?
Ralph Nader for Minister of Fashion Sense
S.Luggo:
As long as he isn’t Minister of Hummus.
Deepthroat: Anyone posting in here who needed the link to learned about “Galt’s Gulch” should not be posting in here in the first place.
:::Grump:::