Team of Zombies, Part II: The "Outside" Economic Advisory Board from Open Left

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Just to reiterate, President Obama today announced his "outside" economic advisory board, which is supposed to give him alternative economic viewpoints from the team of zombies he has working directly in the White House. Sadly, this "outside" board is made up mostly of Establishment and corporate insiders. Here's the list:

- William H. Donaldson, George W. Bush's S.E.C Chairman

- Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President & CEO, TIAA-CREF

- Robert Wolf, Chairman & CEO, UBS Group Americas

- David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University

- Mark T. Gallogly, Founder & Managing Partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.

- Penny Pritzker, Chairman & Founder, Pritzker Realty Group

- Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE

- John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

- Jim Owens, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.

- Monica C. Lozano, Publisher & Chief Executive Officer, La Opinion

- Charles E. Phillips, Jr., President, Oracle Corporation

- Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win

- Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

- Professor Laura D'Andrea Tyson, board member of Morgan Stanley

- Martin Feldstein, former top economist in the Reagan administration

This is about as bad as it gets - labor outnumbered 2 to 13; Wall Street insiders like Tyson, Gallogly and Wolf (the latter who is the boss of Phil Gramm and whose bank was a central part of the meltdown); Reagan and Bush officials...it's just more proof that D.C.'s zombie culture is alive and well.

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