{"id":13996,"date":"2013-07-31T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13996"},"modified":"2013-07-31T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T01:22:28","slug":"weighing-pick-for-fed-chief-obama-defends-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/31\/weighing-pick-for-fed-chief-obama-defends-summers\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing Pick for Fed Chief, Obama Defends Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The New York Times Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/obama-goes-to-capitol-to-soothe-anxious-democrats.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Weighing Pick for Fed Chief, Obama Defends Summers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama on Wednesday offered a strong defense of his potential choice of Lawrence H. Summers to head the Federal Reserve, though he said no final choice had been made.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nMr. Obama did mention another prime candidate for the Fed job, Janet L. Yellen, and noted that he did not know whether there were major policy differences between the candidates. Mr. Summers and Ms. Yellen have become the subjects of an unusually open campaign by lawmakers and others to try to influence the president\u2019s selection.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe president also reassured Congressional Democrats on Wednesday that he would not \u201csell out\u201d his party\u2019s principles as his White House tries to negotiate a budget deal with Senate Republicans this fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the President has heard some of the push back from his own supporters on issues of the economy.\u00a0 He seems to have taken the message to heart about negotiating budget deals.\u00a0 I am not sure he really understands the issue of Larry Summers.\u00a0 At least he has acknowledged that there is another candidate for the spot of Federal Reserve Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>I think getting up in arms is a good thing for us supporters of the President to do. We can&#8217;t always be sure he is tuning up his tin ear on every issue.\u00a0 So it is necessary to complain loudly when we suspect he is off in another world.\u00a0 He does seem to respond if we shout loudly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the story Weighing Pick for Fed Chief, Obama Defends Summers. President Obama on Wednesday offered a strong defense of his potential choice of Lawrence H. Summers to head the Federal Reserve, though he said no final choice had been made. . . . Mr. Obama did mention another prime candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}