Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette sums up the press's assessment of Ben Bernanke:

BREAKING: Ben Bernanke Not a Female Texan Lawyer with Penchant for Exclamation Points - Wonkette : Who is Ben Bernanke, Bush's nominee for Fed chair? We'll tell you one thing: He's not Harriet Miers.

"New Fed chief no Harriet Miers" (The Gazette)
"Ben , he's no Harriet Miers!" (Fortune)
"The anti-Harriet-Miers" (USAT)
"Everything Harriet Miers isn't." (LAT)
"The perfect counterpoint to the Harriet Miers selection" (AP)

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