The Big Topic of Discussion

has been the AIG mess, and Paul Krugman weighs in.

Although I have given Obama the benefit of the doubt since his victory in November, and hence there has been little criticism of him on this blog since that time, I have always been concerned about the fact he received no real scrutiny in the primaries as to his actual beliefs regarding policy. There were danger signs all around he was little more than a neoliberal, not a true Democrat, but of course people could not bring themselves to vote for McCain. That was understandable, but the problem is the economic problems CANNOT be solved by the same old, same old discredited policies of the past thirty years.

And yes, these same "wheeler-dealers" responsible for the mess to begin with are now in the Obama administration. And yes, people like Geithner and Summers need to be ditched, and the administration be fumigated of the Robert Rubin influence.