By GottaLaff
Yesterday, Lindsey Graham accused President Obama of having been AWOL in the recovery debate. That is so laughable that it was hard to type the words. I have to assume that by slamming the president for lack of leadership, he was including the veep as well. They are a team, you know. Well, AWOL this, Theatrical Lindsey:
From NBC's Chuck ToddYeah, the Obama administration has been ignoring the most pressing economic crisis we've had in decades. They've probably been busy looking for to supplement their income by applying for jobs as greeters at a hardware store.
Vice President Biden will not leaving for Munich straight from Williamsburg, VA as originially planned, according to White House sources. He's now coming back to DC to help with last-minute sales pitches for the stimulus plan.
UPDATE-- Here is the rest of the AWOL economic advisory board, headed by Paul Volcker:
Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist; William H. Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS; David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University; Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.; Penny Pritzker, chairwoman, Pritzker Realty Group; Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE (parent company of NBC News); John Doerr, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Jim Owens, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.; Monica C. Lozano, publisher & chief executive officer, La Opinion; Charles E. Phillips, Jr., president, Oracle; Anna Burger, chairwoman, Change to Win; Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO; Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley; Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, Harvard.That'll be a whole lot of bright blue vests.