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To: Brumar89 who wrote (623388)	8/8/2011 9:22:12 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1586235

We’re pretty darn Romered Christina Romer, who jumped ship from Obama’s economic team last year to teach at Berkeley, went on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday and created a shovel-ready job: digging through her foul-mouthed nonsense. TheDC’s Steven Nelson reports: “Romer — who resigned in 2010 after inaccurately predicting that the $800 billion stimulus would lower the unemployment rate — said that the S&P credit downgrade was a sign that the country is ‘pretty darn f***ed.’ ‘The long run budget situation is abysmal,’ Romer said. ‘And it has been abysmal going back at least a decade. So it was never an immediate emergency. And it is something that we absolutely needed to deal with, but we didn’t need to deal with it today, we didn’t need to deal with it a week ago…’ Maher asked Romer how she felt about being ‘Palinized’ by Republicans who aren’t economists. She said, ‘Policy would be better if we listened to the experts.’” Well, sure. After all, Romer is an expert and we listened to her. That’s been working out just great. Oh yeah, and she said Obama makes good decisions, and the stimulus wasn’t big enough. Then she slithered back to Berkeley. Read more: dailycaller.com