Having learned nothing from his midterm drubbing, the president is considering making JPMorgan Chase executive William Daley his chief of staff. Because what this administration needs is more sympathy for the criminals on Wall Street.

Daley, one of a seemingly endless supply of think-small corporate Democrats, is the founder of a think tank that goes by the unfortunate name of Third Way. http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/gag_me_with_a_banker_20110104/

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bill-daley-20110104,0,189776.story

I think you just invented a slogan, Thom.

"Tax the fat, not the bone!"

Hey Thom, in reference to your 1984 allegories, don't forget that we have to listen to the morning Hate too, like good party members. What do you think Rush and Beck are on air for anyway?

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The Roosevelts were old money and were the closest thing we had to a Landed Aristocracy in America which could explain their paternalistic Nobless Oblige attitude. - from Ch 5 - The Lord of he Manor. "

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZrSKQMOh7OIC&pg=PT207&lpg=PT207&dq=Noblesse+oblige+fdr+great+depression&source=bl&ots=f7zw2kYina&sig=aJVPRdwqfhupWWBigkAPjysP4gc&hl=en&ei=rmcjTfi8KIO8sQPTsMytCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941

By Robert S. McElvaine

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From "The Hundred Days of FDR"........Born in the Hudson River aristocracy, he inherited a sense of obligation to land and to community. He was indeed, as John T. Flynn labeled him in a once famous polemic, a country squire in the White House. The Republic was Hyde Park writ large, and he saw himself as trustee for a national estate that required vigilant protection and cultivation.

There was more than a touch of paternalism and noblesse oblige in all this, but there was also a vivid feeling of responsibility for the national community as a whole, especially its most defenseless members.

F.D.R. had had a reasonable exposure to the economic thought of his time. At Harvard he had taken more credits in economics than in any field except history and English. His teachers -William Z. Ripley, A. Piatt Andrew, O.M.W. Sprague - were in the reformist school that hoped to mitigate laissez-faire by regulation.

In the 1920's he had been active in the business self-regulation movement. As Governor of New York, he had pioneered in regional planning, conservation, electric power development and welfare legislation.

The President-elect emerged from this varied experience with a patrician disdain for business wisdom and a curiosity about economists. ''This nation asks for action, and action now,'' he said in his inaugural address................

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