* Choice to replace Greenspan (coming at 1PM EST)...who is it gonna be

[MidwestTransplant]

Who do you think will be Greenspan's replacement

[Fridays Child]

1. I hear Judith Miller is looking for a gig.

Friend of the administration, uniquely unqualified for the job--yep, she's a shoe-in.

[kstewart33]

2. Andy Card who has absolutely no financial experience. nt

[Missy M]

6. Andy Card is the one rumored so I go along with you.

[MADem]

19. I heard Andy wanted to be Treasury Secretary, not FED CHAIR

Fed Chair involves WORK...treasury secretary just involves having a nice signature to go on the dollar bills, and making decisions about what pretty colors to put in the currency. They also run the IRS, and do the banking, pay the bills, print the money and the postage, but they are not the ones setting monetary policy.

They say Andy is totally burnt out, and the Treasury job is a soft landing, relatively speaking. Fed Chair would be brutal with the mess we are in, and he does not have the background for it. Of course, that never stopped the Monkey before....

http://www.treas.gov/education/duties/
The Department of the Treasury is organized into two major components the Departmental offices and the operating bureaus. The Departmental Offices are primarily responsible for the formulation of policy and management of the Department as a whole, while the operating bureaus carry out the specific operations assigned to the Department. Our bureaus make up 98% of the Treasury work force. The basic functions of the Department of the Treasury include:

Managing Federal finances;
Collecting taxes, duties and monies paid to and due to the U.S. and paying all bills of the U.S.;
Producing postage stamps, currency and coinage;
Managing Government accounts and the public debt;
Supervising national banks and thrift institutions;
Advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy;
Enforcing Federal finance and tax laws;
Investigating and prosecuting tax evaders, counterfeiters, and forgers.

[Missy M]

28. Treasury Secretary is more up Card's alley so I hope the rumours...

about him being Fed Chair are just that.

[Taxloss]

3. Michael Brown? n/t

[TahitiNut]

4. One of the twins - probably Barbara.

They both need a job. :shrug:

[Mizmoon]

5. Laura, of course

'She runs the household checkbook so I thought she might enjoy this sort of job ...'

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The Devil?

Bush's top crony!

[insane_cratic_gal]

8. Harriet Miers

She's qualified.. she has a good heart and she thinks Bush is the coolest guy EvEr.
Not to mention they can't get her passed for SCOTUS

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. The janitor

[MADem]

10. Why is he rolling this name out today?

Seems awful early in the week...usually, they wait till nearer the weekend, so that it leads on the Sunday shows. Are they trying to eat up air time in the news cycle? Hoping that between hurricanes and Fed Chairs, no one will mention PlameGate???

[MidwestTransplant]

12. Word is they are having trouble defrosting Osama

[NYC Liberal]

17. If that's the plan, it isn't working.

I didn't see any mention of it on the morning news today. It was all hurricane, Plamegate, and Miers.

[MADem]

21. Might mean there is gonna be an announcement tomorrow

...and he is hoping to shave a little bit off the next 24 hour cycle.

[NYC Liberal]

24. They have not been coordinated at all.

Looks like they're trying to use ANY little thing to take the heat off. But it's not working this time. No Rove to go around strongarming people now.

[MADem]

31. You just hit the nail on the head--no Rove to break kneecaps, so the press

is emboldened!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Yes, you'd think they'd drop this 24 hours AFTER the indictments.

[The Whiskey Priest]

11. I have it on fairly good authority

That it will be J Harold Tutweiler, the ex-Chief Accountant for Arbusto Oil Company. J Harold is a long-time friend of GW’s and was cleared of all counts in the indictments following the financial collapse of Arbusto.

[Ashy Larry]

18. Grover Norquist

Other hopefuls include Neal Boortz and Larry Kudlow.

[MADem]

32. Ben Bernanke is what the street is saying

Of course, one crony is as good as another, or should I say as BAD as another...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051024.wfedchairman1024/BNStory/Business/

Reuters news agency, citing “knowledgeable sources,” said former Fed governor Ben Bernanke would be the nominee. The Wall Street Journal said the same. Mr. Bernanke has been mentioned in the past as the likely front-runner.

Also on the list of candidates for the job are several leading economists, presidential advisers and a handful of current or former Fed governors. They include: Harvard University Professor Martin Feldstein, Columbia University business school dean Glenn Hubbard, Fed governor and Greenspan apprentice Donald Kohn, former White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey and Fed vice-chairman Roger Ferguson.

Other potential candidates include Robert McTeer, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, William Poole, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, and former U.S. Treasury undersecretary David Mulford.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. JEB!

[jmatthan]

14. PNAC William Kristol

eom

[RedEarth]

15. Ben Bernanke .... economic advisor

[tridim]

16. Matthew Lesko?

[MADem]

33. Well, he knows how to SAVE!! YOU!!! MONEY!!!!!!

Because he knows about all of those FREE!!!!! GOVERNMENT!!!! PROGRAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[tridim]

34. Free government money to PAY YOUR BILLS!

He's the perfect snake oil salesman, and I'm sure Bush is very impressed with his heart. He's on the short list for sure.

[MsConduct]

20. He's probably looking for an accountant from 'the mob'. But

really, any bookkeeper for any fundamentalist group should do.

[Connie_Corleone]

22. Laura Bush nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Bill "Lost shirt" Bennett, "Laundry" DeCay, "Cheat Indians" Abramoff?

Bill "Lost my shirt" Bennett
Tom "Money Laundry" DeCay
Jack "Cheat the Indians Coming and Going" Abramoff?
The guy who bailed out "Arbusto"?
The guys who bought the Rangers team for Shrub?
Barney?

[tomg]

25. I am going with the lawyer of

the Nigerian general who was executed, the one who wants to give me a whole lot of money if I just send him my check routing number or something.

But if that guy is busy, I hear George will just send away for one those economic empowerment tapes ( earn a gazillion dollars at home by licking envelopes) and do the job himself.

[dweller]

27. this guy

dp

[newportdadde]

29. Lets cut out the middle man and give it to the printing press.

Or if its not available then that Fed Reserve account who sweeps in to the rescue each week to prop up the market.

[BL611]

30. Which of the Bush twins can count higher?

Sorry, that was mean I really didn't mean it.