An Occupy Ask to Obama: Fire Geithner Hire Warren

Here I was, with what I thought was a great original idea, for the Occupy Movement (of which I am not a spokesperson): Tell Obama: Fire Geithner, Hire Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary!

This other person had posted the exact same thing back in 2010. Nice job, Mosquito! Here's another one from last month. Is that a chorus I hear?

Now is the right time to do it, before the Repubs have selected Obama's opponent. Obama could seize the headlines, and make a statement. If he does it later, he may miss this moment when the Occupiers have the media's attention, despite the media's attempts to focus on police evictions and tent bans rather than on the 99% and the 1%.

Naysayers will say, yeah, and then he can hire Van Jones back too. This is 2008 neverland hope and changey stuff. It won't happen in the cynical late-2011 post-debt ceiling world of crushed hopes and dreams. But I reply, yes we can? No, but like the Green Party it's still a good idea.

The last time I had an idea like this, it was 2003 and I suggested that Colin Powell resign over what he knew was faulty intelligence (pressure from Cheney on the CIA to say there were WMDs in Iraq - as Rick Perry would say, "oops") and change his party affiliation to independent and run against Bush in 2004. I still think it would have worked. A few weeks later Powell went to the UN and flushed his reputation down the toilet. That's what you get for hangin with Dubya Cheney and Rumsfeld. And that's what Obama will get for stickin with Geithner at a moment when America is waking up.