A prescription for Larry Summers
I’ve been pulling late nights on an offline project and Doug Powers is pitching in with guest-blogging the next few days while I try and wrap up. But couldn’t help popping in real quick to offer my prescription for Larry Slumbers — er, Larry Summers.
He fell asleep on the job again today at the White House summit with credit card CEOs.
Click here for the photo gallery. More here.
Dude, you are a wealthy man. Have someone pick you up a case or two of 5-hour energy.
It works. And it will spare you and your boss another embarrassing photo-op.
Go. Now:
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If anybody knows how to stay up late hours – many hours – and not sleep, it is our Michelle (and AJ)!
P.S. Doug is doing a great job BTW!
Words escape me.
Wouldn’t this administration need to have shame in order for it to be embarrassed by stuff like this?
Wouldn’t you doze off if Obama went on and on without TOTUS?
Uuum,zzzzzzz,uuum,zzzzz,uuuum,zzzzzzz….
Aww, Michelle, give ‘im a break. If you had to sit there and listen to Duh One go on, and on, and on, and ….., why you’d probably go to sleep too.
Aloha, you beat me by that much.:)
Maybe it’s his out for when this all goes terribly wrong.
I bet nobody falls asleep when the teleprompter is talking.
More demagogery and photo sessions. People are getting sick and tired of the Democrats bullying, fearmongering and intimidation tactics. I’m thinking that there will be more and more business leaders (sans political ones) who will face down these punk thugs and tell them to shove it.
In the fight or flight scenario, Americans are now opting to fight. This has gone far enough.
Kos Kids are probably burning up Google with searches for things like “asleep +Bush+meeting” in response to this.
Not to make excuses but I wonder if he’s diabetic.
I get terribly sleepy if I eat too many carbs and can barely keep my eyes open, let alone sit through a meeting.
When that happens though, I’ll usually take a quick 15-20min nap and then I’m good to go.
I already drink 2-4 cups of coffee in the morning so adding energy drinks on top would be a tad much for me.
Well to be fair, he did drink a couple of cans of Rahm’s Red Steer, but it didn’t seem to help…
The first person to mention Janet Reno Napolitano and Red Bull in the same joke will…
oops…
Leave him alone. They do a lot less damage when they’re asleep.
Wasn’t there a stand-up comic named Dennis Hitler who used this narcoleptic gag first? Exactly. Never heard of him.
Give it up Larry! It just ain’t funny!
There is the issue of context. If you are that guy in that meeting with all of those cameras, you should probably find a way to stay awake.
Jab an implement in your leg, sip water…something, just make it happen.
Just because the former Arizona governor has that haircut, has never been married and is a fan of the WNBA is no reason to drop rumor or innuendo about
himher.Waddya know! Dennis Hitler lives!
If Obama is trying to talk sans teleprompter, all those ers, and uhs, and awkward pauses might put me to sleep as well…
If I had to be in the same room listening to Odopey the only thing that would keep me awake would be a lap dance from some extremely hot babe.
If a bunch of
credit card CEOsmobsters were in a room explaining to me how they can justify a 29% APR, I think I’d be able to stay awake.On April 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm, ajmontana said:
If I had to be in the same room listening to Odopey the only thing that would keep me awake would be a lap dance from some extremely hot babe.
heh…
you saw Michelle on Fox this AM I presume….
Oops. My mistake. The credit card
CEOsmobsters are there asking for a bailout because 29% APR is a bad credit risk. They need at least 49% to be profitable.Maintaining the lie (line) du jour, not to mention all the partying and travel, can be exhausting, don’tcha know?
Come on! Helen Thomas can’t be everywhere!
Maybe this douchebag has been having too many sleepless nights over what he and the Obummer cult has been up to. I know I am.
This guy lost his pep a long time ago.
Kos Kids areLGM is probably burning up Google with searches for things like “asleep +Bush+meeting” in response to this.That had LGM written all over it.
Instead of Sominex, we now have Summersnex sleep medication.
I missed her Max, what was it she said?
Um, er, she was , um, talking about , uh… Janet Napolitano, yeah that’s it…
Isn’t it nice to know that the Obama administration can sleep peacefully while credit card companies do every thing they can to rip us off after receiving bail-out money from us?
They really do feel our pain! And some thought it was all just political posturing.
/sarc
I have found that yanking out a nose hair with tweezers will prevent me from falling asleep in any meeting for up to an hour.
I can’t really blame him for taking a short snooze–look, The One was speaking. Reminds me of another great leader that played a large part in causing the “tea party” of colonial times. Lord North was accused of sleeping during a crisis, but replied by opening an eye and saying, “No I was not asleep, but I wish to God I had been.”
Now I’m ashamed at our resident Trolls. I did the Google search myself and it did return an instance of Cheney falling asleep during a Bush speech or meeting of some kind. Apparently the Trolls are still getting over their Earth day hangover. All that medicinal mary-jane can leave one a bit tuckered out.
Sort of OT
Powerline Forum: Team Obama demands banks take an 85% write-down on Chrysler secured debt in exchange for nada. Nothing. Bupkis. Banks not eager to take that bath.
Team Obama has apparently guaranteed the UAW they get off without concessions in a government supervised bankruptcy.
This explains why Team Obama doesn’t want the TARP money back, and wants to convert it from a bridge loan in the banks to a buy in, making Obama the effective majority stake in several banks.
The current CEOs of Chase and Citi and Wells and BofA may not want to take an 80 or 90% writedown of their senior notes for absolutely nothing, but when Bill Clinton, Governor Richardson and Jamie Gorelick are the CEOs and ACORN and UAW members hold seats on the bank boards, the banks will write whatever loan they are told to write, and eat any debt they are told to eat.
Curing a prominent symptom, the debt, without restructuring the UAW benefits in any way is a shot of morphine to someone dying of Ebola, masks the symptoms briefly, but the patient will still die.
Except the government owned banks will keep stringing them along, on the taxpayer dime.
I heard a number on the radio, under the Obama budget, in ten year’s time, just the interest on the national debt will be approaching a trillion per year.
The Chinese will stop lending to us before that, I suppose. Anybody with a brain will stop lending, when they see that Obamanomics means screwing the creditors in favor of the irresponsible. First mortgage cramdowns, now this.
Full faith and credit in this government is worth less than squat.
I would sure hate to have a job where everything I did was on camera and any time I sneezed, dozed, yawned, scratched, etc. a picture was availabe on the big brother camera! I have no time for Summers or any of those jerks, but you do have to feel a bit of their pain…trying to look interested in things that Odumbo is saying when they know it is all a bunch of nonsense delivered in a monotone punctuated by duhs, uhs, and ums.
Time to mix metaphors here:
Labor Unions, their pensions and their benefit plans are the 800 lb. guerrillas in the china shop that is the U.S. economy. On top of that, they are pumped up on steroids (greed) and their handlers (the politicians) are cowering in the corners.
In summary:
guerrillas+china shop+steroids+cowards
=mega-destruction
Don’t be too hard on him. Not only does he have to sit through Obam…uh…uh…uh speaking, it must be hard to stay awake when the thermostat is set at 77. Gotta keep Michelle lookin’ good in all her sleeveless tops, fo sho.
Oh geeez, thanks for that mental picture. That’s enough to make me need therapy for at least a year.
Now that’s torture.
Don’t forget, today is Thursday….
He probably gets invited to Obama’s Wednesday shindigs.
That figure actually is based on current interest rates and statistics. It does not take into consideration the inevitable double-digit inflation (Ala Carter Part Deux) excessive unemployment rates, decreased levels of tax revenues being generated (which must be padded from some other new source to make up for the budget “cuts” from 40% growth to 20% growth which is still growth in the private sector but advertised as a cut in govt spending!?) The Chinese will sell off their debt that is now being secured by real property in the US, the dollar will crash as recession becomes a full bore depression … oh yeah, a trillion bucks a year is bad … but nothing when it is compared with what this administration is actually going to cost us in the long run.
I, personally, am all in favor of our current government sleeping whenever possible. They can do less damage that way…
Reagan used to fall asleep in meetings from time to time, I believe.
Hello????? Is anyone here? No one seems to be awake….
Hardy har har!
Summers was against Shamulus before he was for it.