Wonkette
The New York Times has a SCOOP, about Larry Summers! He is still a dick to everybody, and the rest of the White House economics team pretty much hates him — except for the President, who endures his terrible behavior because he is so BRILLIANT.
President Obama was getting his daily economic briefing one recent morning when a fly distracted him. The president swatted and missed, just as the pest buzzed near the shoes of Lawrence H. Summers, the chief White House economic adviser. “Couldn’t you aim a little higher?” deadpanned Christina D. Romer, the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Mrs. Romer was joking, she said in an interview, adding, “There are only a few times that I felt like smacking Larry.”
Other SCOOPworthy notes: he has “forcefully debated” Tim Geithner, “clashed” with Pete Orszag, “collided with” Austan Goolsbee, “squabbled” with Christina Romer, and told Rahm Emanuel to “choke on a bag of hot dicks” while pooping on President Obama’s carpets.
This is why our economy is in such wonderful shape.
Obama’s Economic Circle Keeps Tensions Simmering [New York Times]
Please! More respect for doughy middle aged white guys.
That rug really tied the room together.
Larry the Finance Fly Guy.
This is news? Didn’t they run him out on a rail from Haavad cuz he didn’t like da ladies?
No flies on Summers.
I was sure that anecdote was going to end with Larry Summers snatching fly out of midair with his reptilian tongue.
I hated him until that bag of dicks part, then I started to respect him.
Was the fly there because Summers is a shit-demon, or because Obama is Lord Beelzebub himself.
…he has “forcefully debated” Tim Geithner, “clashed” with Pete Orszag, “collided with” Austan Goolsbee, “squabbled” with Christina Romer…
Don’t forget that he has “golden showered” Barney Frank, and “fisted” Larry Craig. Politics, y’know.
seriesoftubescleaner: When he gets really agitated or in a heated conversation, the neck-sac comes into play.
too early for a Dune reference?? .. he seems like a young Baron Harkonen. “He who controls the Geithner, controls the Universe”
“Larry Summers and the Clash of the Orszag”…sounds like a Bruce Campbell vehicle.
4tehlulz: word
Summers is known to openly masturbate at odd moments during the day. He doesn’t “believe bodily functions need to be concealed.” Although some people claim this activity occurs more often when women are talking, accompanied by a diversion of the eyes and loud humming.
seriesoftubescleaner: Or while donning his black and white halved grapefruit bandana, the young President catches the fly in mid-flight with a pair of chopsticks. Larry Summers then storms out of the oval office after exclaiming, “You beginner luck!”
“Larry Summers is one of the world’s most brilliant economists,” said Mr. Orszag, who along with Mr. Geithner, successfully resisted Mr. Summers’s attempts early on to control their access to Mr. Obama.
“What’s really sad,” continued Mr. Orszag, “is when meetings are over and we have to pry his huge, sobbing frame from the Oval Office desk. He’s usually okay after a few minutes in the car, though.”
What they’re not reporting is that after her “funny” remark, Summers told her “she’d just earned herself another black eye.” Obama then told the joke that begins, “What do all battered women have in common?” while memos were being passed back and forth that said things like “I think she needs the high hard one…”
The NYT shouldn’t not give this guy too much credit for saving the economy, because 1) it’s not saved yet, and 2) this guy worked to destroy it while working for Clinton (and no, I’m not talking about Freedie Mac loan policy for disadvantaged communities).
The Hutts always were masters of trade, despite their odious form and demeanor.
Soon, Mrs. Romner will choke him with a chain while wearing a metal bikini.
loudmouthredhead: Oops, ROMER…Romer. That was a Mittens-ian slip?
Aside from the fact that many NYTimes went to Harvard and may feel a certain kinship with its (failed) one-time president, it is hard to figure out what they find so interesting about Mr. Summers. If I recall correctly, his BFF Robert Rubin was also at one time considered the bee’s knee. Given what we’ve gone through in recent months, all mainstream economists should shut up, do some major penance, and find a new calling. Their suggestions regarding how to fix things now are not supported by any evidence that they know what the fuck they are talking about.
“Smacking Larry” sounds like a bad reality show (yeah, I know that’s an oxymoron).
The NYT photo accompanying the article looks like a mug shot. (Arrested on suspicion of swallowing Jonah Goldberg?)
Who’s Larry Summers?
I can’t be the only one who gets Larry Summers and Mark Penn confused.
Doughy guy… buttery doughy guy… (why, we all owe our very existence to the fact that our mothers were willing to make love to doughy guys!)
Voted Most Likely to Release Bodily Air in a WH meeting.
Today’s Doughy Pantload is yesterday’s Yiffpile. YAY!
19kevin8:
No, it’s a pleonasm.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Yeah, I was just thinking they have their Jonah Goldberg and we have Larry Summers. Both are fat, hated by nearly everone and wrong about pretty much everything. Though they do happen to be experts on achieving morbid obesity.
The only way to get Larry out your face is to leave a line of pizzas leading out the door.
He could be the biggest dick in the world, but as long as he does his job competently (maybe brilliantly) that’s ok. As to tensions in the Obama administration: real boats rock.
lizard scum: I like to think that it’s like getting help defusing a bomb from the terrorist that built it. But deep down, I know that economic policy does not work like this. Do they just listen carefully to what Larry says, and painstakingly calculate the opposite trajectory, or what?
artbot2000: “A pleonasm consists of two concepts (usually two words) that are redundant.”
“Palin irrelevance”??
Sorry, didn’t mean to go OT.
A wise latina women / angry black man would have connected on the first slap / punch
Nobody in the room laughed at the president’s Larry Summer’s joke at the Correspondence dinner (something about making him Czar of Women and Girls.) Were folks in the room scared of retribution or disgusted at the thought? I like to think both.
Romer and Summers argue over whether his argument is “schlocky.” One more way the West Wing has come to life in this White House — everybody, Christian, Jew or miscellaneous, quips in Yiddish.
But the women just fall all over him, right?
When I read the quote, I thought it was some sort of hugely racist “Shine my shoes, boy” joke. And I wondered how Hopey didn’t throw her in a rear-naked-choke until she passed out, then throw her in the white house fountain.
Probably cuz I’m a reverse-racist.