The following is not the kind of story one expects to see in the Washington Post.However, with the economy getting nothing but worse while the Administration of the Big O gets nothing but more incompetent and out-of-touch, even the likes of WaPo's Dana Milbank are becoming a bit snarly.
Lunch at the National Press Club on Wednesday caused some serious indigestion.
It wasn't the food; it was the entertainment. Christina Romer, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, was giving what was billed as her "valedictory" before she returns to teach at Berkeley, and she used the swan song to establish four points, each more unnerving than the last:
She had no idea how bad the economic collapse would be. She still doesn't understand exactly why it was so bad. The response to the collapse was inadequate. And she doesn't have much of an idea about how to fix things.
What she did have was a binder full of scary descriptions and warnings, offered with a perma-smile and singsong delivery: "Terrible recession. . . . Incredibly searing. . . . Dramatically below trend. . . . Suffering terribly. . . . Risk of making high unemployment permanent. . . . Economic nightmare."
Anybody want dessert?...
