Goolsbee Is Much Better Than Romer As A Spokesperson On The Economy & Smacking GOP

[TomCADem]

Even Jason Linkins at HuffPo agrees:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/12/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_18_n_713646.html

Goolsbee says that Wallace is mischaracterizing the term, "Summer of Recovery," and that's unfair. Wallace disagrees, obviously. Goolsbee maintains that the actions taken created or saved jobs -- to get your head around "created or saved," think of a soccer team's game-time goals to simultaneously create goals while also saving them -- and that plenty of outside sources agree with that assessment.

I don't know if this means anything to you, but Austan Goolsbee is a man who correctly says, "Data are..." instead of "Data is..." Not that I'm going to start dropping the word "datum" anytime soon!

On to the Bush tax cuts! The GOP wants to keep them for the rich, and they'll prevent the extension of tax cuts on everyone else unless they get their widdle stampy-feet way! Wallace wants to pretend that the tax cuts will affect 50% of small businesses -- Goolsbee is there very quickly to respond: 97% of small businesses will not be affected by the President's tax plan. "The majority of the income" Wallace cited "had nothing to do with small businesses." He goes on to note that the small biz plan on the table cuts taxes for small businesses eight different ways.

Okay, this is much, much better than Romer's appearances.

[kentuck]

1. I agree.

If Austan Goolsbee has the President's ear, I feel much better than with Christina Romer, the person who said unemployment might go up to 8%..

[ProgressiveEconomist]

2. He was an award-winning NY Times columnist from 2006 onward, and a cable show

host for the History Channel, as wll as Obama's economic spokesman during the 2008 campaign. He's appeared on The Daily Show for the WH more than once already--and he has a sense of humor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austan_Goolsbee

Romer was a "dud" when it came to communication, IMO. I think Goolsbee should have been out front for the WH ever since Inauguration Day.

[notesdev]

3. The important question

is he much better at advocating sound economic policies that work for people not part of the upper crust elite?

Goolsbee has a good sense of humor, I'll grant him that. But who is he working for?

I'm very skeptical because there is not a single economic policy position filled by Obama that has had anything but a bankster in it. All the Treasury appointments, all the NEC appointments, and of course the reconfirmation of Ben Bernanke... not a one is anything but a banker's friend.

The only two trustworthy appointments - Warren and Barofsky - were made by Congress, not the administration.