“Larry Summers” on The Daily Caller

House Minority Leader John Boehner is calling on President Obama to fire his team of economic advisers Tuesday, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers. (more)

President Obama’s economic team is exhausted, according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, and that is one the reasons Christina Romer announced her departure Thursday. (more)

Obama White House hemorrhaging economic ‘experts’ — Senate Dems now bribing industrial farmers in order to save Blanche Lincoln
— Scottish doctor exaggerated Lockerbie bomber’s poor health — Back in Denver, teachers are probably burning Michael Bennett’s picture — Will Charlie Rangel be the only guest at Charlie Rangel’s birthday party?
– Tennessee gubernatorial candidate pledges to change the face of American politics  (more)

Days from stepping down as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag can now add another feather to his cap: he has inspired someone to write a song in his honor. (more)

The idea that President Obama is anti-business broke into the mainstream this week. (more)

The saying goes: “Those who can, do; those that can’t, teach.” Either that, or they become the President or a Supreme Court justice. (more)

President Obama’s announcement Monday that he will push to double the size of broadcasting spectrum for wireless devices is aimed, perhaps more than anything, at making it easier for iPhone or Blackberry users in major American cities to use their devices. (more)

Before a packed ballroom of real estate investors in downtown Philadelphia on Tuesday night, President Obama’s top economic advisor defended the White House’s economic program and attacked Senate Republicans for stalling financial reform legislation. (more)

Either Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) has learned his lesson concerning voters’ outrage after the recent health care process or he is lining himself up early for another round of a Cornhusker Kickback. After his vote against getting debate going on financial reform legislation, Nelson’s vote echoes the sentiment bellowing through the halls of Congress as a statement that begs the question: (more)

It’s funny how fast the Beltway consensus can change. A few months ago, health care reform was dead. Then it got undead. Financial regulatory reform was supposedly dead too, but now that Republicans have supposedly learned that pure obstructionism is a losing play, it’s being treated as a done deal. Democrats like Obama’s economic adviser Larry Summers and Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd are saying it’s going to pass, perhaps as early as next month. So are key Republicans like Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who recently put the odds of passage at “100%.” (more)

Like most of us, I normally ignore or delete the many e-mails of jokes, partisan trivia and the like often forwarded to me. However, I found one such recent e-mail, which included a White House photo, especially troubling. (more)

President Obama wants to work with Republicans on health care reform. “I am going to be starting from scratch,” he says, “in the sense that I will be open to any ideas that help promote” controlling health care costs and making health insurance more widely available. (more)

There is a chaotic feel to the nation’s capital. Apocalyptic weather patterns have turned everything, it seems, upside down. (more)

Key Obama economic adviser Larry Summers coined a telling way to look at the current American economic state of play. He said the U.S. is experiencing a “statistical recovery and a human recession.” (more)