A Few on Lew

Nasty GOPers were joined by Bernie Sanders in opposing Jack Lew's appointment as Treasury Secretary.  Sanders was upset that somebody else "from Wall Street" was going to run Treasury.  But Lew's experience seems much more in federal government, as the Budget Director at the end of the Clinton presidency (where he presided over the last 3 surpluses in U.S. history) as well as in the Obama administration.

So here's a link to Rachel Maddow's pretty positive segment on Lew, as well as this story on why he scares GOPers.

Rachel by the way featured President Obama repeating (in his statement thanking outgoing Sec Geitner and introducing Lew) a "saying around the Treasury Department": "No peacocks, no jerks, no whiners."  Rachel suggested it should be translated into Latin and mounted somewhere prominent in Washington.  One of her viewers promptly gave her the translation:

Nulli Pavones, Nulli Turbatores, Nulli Vagientes

To which I can only add:

Amen