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Summers is no blue dog, he's not even a New Dem. Neither group talks about wealth disparity as a problem. Geithner/Warren's proposed financial consumer protection agency has zero blue dog support. Romer? Jarrett? Solis? This is the administration that hired Van Jones - of course he got no support from "progressives" when the wingers attacked him.

This is not blue dog
http://detnews.com/article/20100108/BIZ/1080414/White-House-announces-green-job-tax-credits

You sound like the idiots like me who said Humphrey was the same as Nixon.  Some of us learned better though.

by rootless2 on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:03:30 PM EST
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Back in the '90s, Summers fucked over Russia so hard that the rest of Europe is still dealing with the fallout. Probably will be for another generation.

So I hope you'll excuse me if I take his heel face turn with a rather heavy dose of salt.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:21:54 PM EST
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And in the 1960s Lieberman marched with MLK and David Horowitz was a Maoist. I'm not asking you to love Summers, I'm asking you to sharpen your analysis. If you want to use "Blue Dog" as a synonym for "public figure i don't like" then your discussion of public events will be murky.

Even Marx distinguished between the interests of finance capital and production capital. All these people are not the same.

by rootless2 on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:54:36 PM EST
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