{"id":3085,"date":"2010-10-12T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2010-10-12T02:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:36:21","slug":"shelby-r-al-caught-in-a-whopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/shelby-r-al-caught-in-a-whopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby (R-AL) Caught in a Whopper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of the Republican attempt to sabotage our nation, so they can blame Democrats for the chaos as a path to power has involved unprecedented obstruction of Obama\u2019s nominees.  Once  in a while, they actually come up with a justification for blocking a nominee, invariably a lie.  This time, their lie has been exposed for the garbage it is.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12diamond\" In 1979, a 25-year-old economics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Ben S. Bernanke turned in his doctoral dissertation. In his acknowledgments, he thanked a faculty member, Peter A. Diamond, as one of four professors who \u201cgave generously of their time, reading and discussing my work.\u201d <\/p>\n

In April, President Obama nominated Mr. Diamond to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, where his former student, Mr. Bernanke, has been chairman since 2006<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

But under an arcane procedural rule, the Senate sent Mr. Diamond\u2019s nomination back to the White House on Thursday night before starting its summer recess. A leading Republican senator, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, said that Mr. Diamond did not have sufficiently broad macroeconomic experience to help run the central bank<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Not only was Diamond the teacher of the current Fed Chair, but also, yesterday Peter Diamond won the Nobel Prize for economics.  Rachel Maddow covered it in more detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Shelby has no comment.  What could he say?  A Republican cannot admit to a lie without telling the truth.  What a conundrum that would be.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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