Take Summers Off T-Sec Shortlist

According to numerous reports, former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is on a very shortlist to occupy that same post in the Obama administration. I guess it's a good thing Jimmy The Greek isn't available.

This is one of those occasions, rare indeed, where I will not only agree with Darragh Murphy, but turn the dial on said agreement to 11:

"So, I think, while I would prefer to believe otherwise, I guess my experience with my two and a half year old twin daughters who were not given dolls and who were given trucks, and found themselves saying to each other, look, daddy truck is carrying the baby truck, tells me something." - Larry Summers, in the address he gave at Harvard on the lack of women in the highest ranks of science and engineering. Summers was later forced to resign as president of Harvard in the resulting firestorm.

He is now at the top of a very short list to become obama's Treasury Secretary.

The reason women don't advance in competitive professional environments is because they're just not willing to squelch their gooey desire to spend ALL THEIR TIME WITH THEIR CHILDREN.

Barack, allow me to arrange some traffic cones around this so you don't step in it. I don't care if Larry Summers is Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, and Lucky the Leprechaun put together, you cannot name him Treasury Secretary. In fact, you should erase him from the list, seal the eraser dust in four separate envelopes, and drop each into its own volcano.

In an election year with two major female candidates for national executive office, both of whom were on he receiving end of both real and perceived sexism, the mere inclusion of Summers on such a list is ill advised, in much the same way that a honey bath near a fire ant colony is.

Trust me, folks, there ain't enough lipstick in the world to make this pick look good.

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