Comments on: Donald Duck for Fed Chair?

By: al bee

al bee — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:11:27 +0000

I worked with Donald at the Department of Energy. A nice guy but no financial wizard.

I do not share you consternation over Mrs. Miers appointment. Each justice employs five clerks to do the grunt work allowing time for the justice to weigh the factors to arrive at just decisions.
How many arrive at a higher court already entrenched in court policy, procedures and politics? A fresh approach?

Like James I voted for the President twice and would vote for him again. I have confidence in him and his innate honesty. When he looks up during a speech I see an honest man doing his best to satisfy all citizens.

By: Mister Snitch!

Mister Snitch! — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:44:20 +0000

Another alert from the Poindexter Awareness Office

Like moths drawn by the flame, more Poindexter-worshipping pundits are coming to the fore as a result of the Miers' nomination. It has come to the attention of the PAO that a pre-emptive strike has been launched in anticipation of Bush's naming of a ...

By: Mr. Snitch!

Mr. Snitch! — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:49:01 +0000

Scrooge McDuck for Fed Chair. Absolutely!

By: Borlos

Borlos — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:32:51 +0000

Listen, WE ARE AT WAR. Being President IS HARD WORK. If we criticize his choice, we are going to undermine the safety of our troops and THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON.

Brownie should be the next FED chair. Managing the fiscal health of the country is pretty much the same as managing a bunch of horse show judges. He'll do a heckuva job!

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:31:12 +0000

Repub Pres and two Democratic chambers would work too.

Hm. I'm remembering the years 1987-93, when this was in place. We got big tax hikes and growing deficits -- the worst of both worlds. Jim, could you define "work" as you mean it here?

By: Texas Native

Texas Native — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:26:54 +0000

He's baaaa-aaaack

A prodigal blog returns

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:01:05 +0000

The Senate is supposed to be a deliberative body to check the impulses of the executive.

The only way to get that these days is with blessed, hopefully soon to return, divided government. My personal preference would be a Dem Pres and Republican Senate, but I could almost settle for a Repub Pres (not Bush) and Democratic House. (Recent experience shows that there are not 218 intelligent Republicans - willing to run for Congress - to constitute a majority in the Lower Chamber.) Repub Pres and two Democratic chambers would work too.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:49:54 +0000

I like George Bush, voted for him twice, and would, despite my constant exasperation with his policies, vote for him over Al Gore or John Kerry right now if given the opportunity.

This just goes to show that your judgement is no better than his. Not something to be proud of James.

By: Below The Beltway

Below The Beltway — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:11:32 +0000

New Presidential Appointments

President George Bush today announced he has nominated professional gardener Jesus Ramirez as the new secretary of agriculture.

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:05:07 +0000

Kermit,

If memory serves, Jackon was Mr. Spoils System.

As such, one would think that a Jacksonian Democrat would like cronyism. ;)

By: John Hudock

John Hudock — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:48:08 +0000

Sure, make fun of Donald...but if we could get his uncle Scrooge McDuck on the Fed, we might actually have something.

By: Brett Marston

Brett Marston — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:46:01 +0000

SCOOP: BUSH WILL NOMINATE LONGTIME AIDE TO REPLACE OUTGOING FED CHAIRMAN

BREAKING NEWS!!! MUST CREDIT THIS BLOG!!!

Sources say that President Bush has already settled on a replacement for outgoing Federal Reserve Board chief Alan Greenspan. The surprise candidate is Billy "Moneybags" Johnson, Bush's long-time personal...

By: Kermit

Kermit — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:19:54 +0000

Being of the Jacksonian Democrat stripe, I have very little trust in leaving the running of the government to the Washington elite. The most dangerous time for the constitution is that wonderful time when the Congress of the United States is in session!

By: spencer

spencer — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:13:18 +0000

From the White House view the single most important requirement for the new Fed chairman is that it be someone that will not critize the Bush fiscal policy. That just about rules out all the people that the press and the street speculate about.

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:52:41 +0000

Can't he appoint Harriet Miers to the Fed and then give us a real Supreme Court nominee? As Fed Chairman, Miers could testify to Congress without causing a stock market panic by raising her left eyebrow. That would be a real improvement.