On most occasions any speech or statement delivered by house minority leader John Boehner is cause for serious disapproval, head scratching, or just headaches (although the latter may also be induced by his bright orange skin). However I agree with at least one part of his statement today; fire Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. Although i am still puzzled as to how these hacks ever made it into the Obama administration in the first place, it is not yet to late to fix this problem. Of course one must point out that while Mr Boehner would presumably want these two gone because of their doing to much with government control over the economy, I would take just the opposite view; they have done far to little.
Lest we forget that it was Larry Summers who presided over a total deregulation of wall street during the Clintion administration, and that Mr Geithner was unable to correctly do his job as chairman of the New York Fed in that not only did he do nothing to stop the crisis, he was unable to even see it coming all the while pushing policies that made it worse. Both these men have been abject failures in almost everything they have attempted in life (let's not forget Summers being bounced unceremoniously out as Harvard president for sexism and overal ineptitude), and yet somehow Obama has decided to put his trust in them (in Jonathan Alters very good book "The Promise" we learn that Obama got along well with Geithner and was one of the main factors in his being hired).While excellent economists and thinkers have sat on the sidelines (Paul Krugman, Joesph Stiglitz, Paul Volcker, and Robert Reich just to name a few) with little or no contact with Obama or the white house (again I refer to Alters book), the only opinion really getting through is that of these two ignoramuses. And yet now because the stimulus wasn't big enough, because the administration was not more forceful in it's dealings with banks and corporations, we have very little progress, a high unemployment rate, and corporations that are indeed sitting on their money and not hiring because the government gave them no stings attached money. However the time is not to late. These two men can still be cast out and better men brought in who will increase governments role in this economy, as it should be. It has been said that Mr Obama is an un-sentimental individual. Now is his chance to prove it.