If you combined 1) the evidence that Yellin would be more dovish with 2) the likely impacts of that difference on employment and 3) the political evidence that blocking Summers was a winnable fight, the efforts that people undertook last week were justified.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2013-07-29, at 5:18 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
>
> > And if people are circulating petitions and writing blogs, that's a
> "full court press"? Has there been a single demonstration against Summers'
> possible nomination? If that's a "full court press," what do you call the
> reaction to the Zimmerman verdict? Why is it annoying to you when liberals
> try to mobilize on behalf of a winnable fight?
>
> You misunderstand me. I'm always heartened when liberals join with
> radicals of all stripes try to mobilize for a winnable fight. I put the the
> Zimmerman verdict, Zuccotti Square, Wisconsin, Chicago, the demand for
> progressive policies to deal with the financial, housing, and jobs crisis,
> with undocumented workers, climate change, labour law reform, US
> imperialism etc. all in that category. Am I not permitted to indicate,
> though, that I don't attach nearly the same importance to the Fed
> appointment as these other issues without being accused of being "annoyed"
> with liberals?
>
> It's also puzzling to me why my reference to a full court press struck a
> nerve. It's a turn of phrase which was quite incidental to what I was
> trying to communicate in my post. If you were my editor, I'd let you cut it
> without complaint.
>
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