When the Left Eats Their Own: Ex-Obama OMB Director dumps on administration

When the Left Eats Their Own: Ex-Obama OMB Director dumps on administration Scotty Starnes | April 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM | Tags: budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, Larry Summers, Obama Administration, OMB director Peter Orszag, Peter Orszag, President Obama, Rahm Emanuel | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-50y

 I love when those on the left wake up to the mistake that is Obama.

From The Daily Caller:

Peter Orszag shed some new light on why he left his post as White House budget director and brushed off criticism over his decision take a multi-million dollar job at CitiGroup in an interview with New York magazine.

Orszag claims he never wanted the job, but was unable to resist President Obama's personal lobbying for him to accept the offer.

"Many of my mentors warned me that despite the 'no drama' Obama campaign, once in office this White House would inevitably be like others—and possibly worse. And unfortunately that's exactly what happened," Orszag said.

Orszag personally clashed with other White House officials, including Larry Summers, over the administration's lack of motivation to lower the budget deficit, and Obama's decision to make the Bush tax cuts for the middle class permanent. Orszag believed the tax cuts should have been temporarily extended and then allowed to expire in 2013, after the economy had ample time to recover.

Conveniently after the 2012 election. These were the same economic advisers who proclaimed that passing Obama's $812 billion dollar stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent.

"I didn't think I could be an effective advocate for the administration on making the tax cuts permanent, and I didn't want to be in office when that happened," he said.

Orszag's July 2010 White House departure was anything but cordial, as he was accused of leaking information from private meetings to the press, and his relationship with chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other staffers progressively deteriorated, according to one anonymous Democratic aide.

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