Six facts you need to know about Jack Lew - this is a positive article

[OKNancy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/09/five-facts-you-need-to-know-about-jack-lew/

Fair is fair... the positive side of Jack Lew. Complete article at the link above.


1. Jack Lew’s college adviser was … Paul Wellstone
2. Lew’s reputation was made in the office of House Speaker Tip O’Neill, alongside … Chris Matthews
3. He worked in the worst part of the finance industry

Lew’s defenders argue that as COO, his role was primarily administrative, and he didn’t make decisions about where or what to trade. The AI unit is the precise sort of operation that the Volcker rule should, if properly implemented, render illegal.

4. Republicans hate him

”Please don’t send Jack Lew. The budget director talked too much, was uncompromising, and Boehner’s staff did not believe he could get to yes.” Or, as Boehner put it, ”At one point I told the president, keep him out of here. I don’t need somebody who just knows how to say no.”
The White House saw the friction differently. “There’s not a condescending bone in Jack’s body,” Kenneth Baer, a former senior adviser to Lew and associate director of OMB, told Bloomberg Businessweek. “This is a monumental case of sour grapes.

5. Lew went to the mat for Medicaid

( McConnell wanted Medicaid on the table ) .......... when Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew interrupted. ‘No!’ the typically mild-mannered Lew yelled. ‘The answer is simply no! No, no!’”

6. He still lives in the Bronx

[sheshe2]

1. A voice of reason!

Works for me.

Thanks OKNancy,
sheshe

[OKNancy]

2. thanks. It seems to me that of all the people

appointed this term, he seems to be the one that DUers should not slime.