Economy

Obama was a "first," meaning he desperatly needed to maintain some semblance of the status quo. Reformers take the chance that their reforms will blow up in their faces, and a "first" doesn't have the ability to do that, since s/he is always terrified that s/he will be the only one in that "first" category if that happens. So Obama, while not awful, was more of a place holder.

I understood that, but Geithner? Summers? He couldn't have picked anyone more wretchedly antiworker than those two.