After taking a few shots from Jack Welch, Joe Stiglitz and Meredith Whitney at a Vanity Fair/Bloomberg panel, Council of Economic Advisers member Austan Goolsbee fired back with a pretty rousing defense of administration policy.
Look, we enter[ed] the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We’re throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee.[...]
The fact that we are here to bitch about the economy and about this policy and that and the budget forecasts for GDP growth are 1 percent too low, I’m thrilled, I’m overjoyed that we aren’t all out of our jobs and we prevented the Great Depression. That in itself is an overwhelming accomplishment.
Musings on the convergence of baseball and politics...because, "What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" Surely, Madison would have said the same of baseball.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
And the East German judge...
This is pretty hi-grade snark.
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