Austan Goolsbee to leave White House (Abandon Ship!)

Politico ^ | 6/6/11 7:26 PM ED | MIKE ALLEN

[Common Sense 101]

Absolutely unfriggin’ believable... this pencil-necked, libtard, a$$wip actually taught ECONOMICS?! AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO?! Milton Friedman must be spinning in his grave... so much for the “Chicago School of Economics”.

[Hoodat]

Goolsbee was well above his pay grade. He knows nothing about economics.

[grey_whiskers]

Time to resurrect a vanity which puts Obaama's economic "team" (and I use the term loosely, like the Detroit Lions mentioned upthread) in its place:

(Vanity) On Beyond Zillion, by Dr. Sue-us (with a nod to Fredrich Hayek)

Cheers!

[caww]

Get a load of Bo’s parting words:

Ob said....

..... has helped steer our country OUT of the worst economic crisis

..... has helped lead us toward an ECONOMY THAT IS GROWING

..... CREATING MILLIONS OF JOBS

Makes you wonder what planet they think they’re on.

[Scotswife]

awesome! - he gets to go back and screw up how many kids who think they’re learning something useful?

[Uncle Miltie]

"Austan Goolsbee"

Isn't he a villain from Orwell's "1984?"

[Friendofgeorge]

This guy reminds me of the economics Professor in the movie BACK TO SCHOOL.

Rodney Dangerfield has a lot of fun at the professors expense.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the only senior official remaining from the economic team that inherited a financial crisis and recession created by reckless spending by people who think like they do when Obama took office, and has done sweet f/a to fix the problem due to reliance on discredited economic theories.

Boy, did THAT paragraph need fixin'.

[Carling]

The only class Goolsbee can teach at this point is How to Destroy the US Economy 101.

[Semperfiwife]

Go back to teaching what?? 2 plus 2 is 4,000,000,000,000.?? Just what those minds of mush need to bring on another economic crisis. Most can’t balance a checkbook today and the government surely can’t either. We are screwed as a nation.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Thank God. This guy is the biggest friggin’ tool I’ve ever seen. If this means I never have to sit through one of his moronic, childish video catastrophes, I’m a happy camper. Hell, if it means I don’t have to see one for even a few years, I’m okay with that.

[skinkinthegrass]

He won the “Funniest celebrity in washington” -
probably for his work on the economy

yhea, maybeso
...but WE (the) U.S. taxpayers are paying the bills / fees.
....so much for W.H. Humor.

[SunkenCiv]

I was hoping he'd leave it under a sheet, damn. Probably related to the Peter Diamond denouement.

Couple of links from leftish writer Ezra Klein -- Goolsbee's columns for Slate and his version of what taxes should be. Thanks TSgt.

[skinkinthegrass]

LL!

[Cosmo]

Let me get this straight: A university would terminate a professors tenure because he spent too much time working For Potus? Sure...
Just suggesting such a thing tells you the truth still remains to be told.

[Red_Devil 232]

"Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, plans to return to teaching economics at the University of Chicago ..."

Those poor, poor minds of mush he will be teaching!

[Lazlo in PA]

Boy, that is too bad that this toad is leaving. I was rather looking forward to "Washington DC's Funniest Man" giving me another Glenn Beck styled presentation on how fantastic the economy is again. He did such a swell job last year doing this.

Ahh, Good Times. Good Times.

[hsalaw]

Goolsbee has been on leave for four years from the university’s Booth School of Business and could have lost his tenured position at Chicago, where he was a professor for 14 years before joining the administration, if he did not return, an official said.

That's got to be the weakest excuse I've ever heard.

[spokeshave]

what’s the old saying... those who can’t do, teach?

Yeah....and those that can't teach.....administrate.

[americanophile]

The fact that we have nothing but a bunch of academics explains half the problem.