Mr. President, please take action!

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Mr. President, in a press conference today, you said that you were "choked up with anger" about AIG's shenanigans.

Mr. President, we don't need your populist rhetoric. We don't need you to be choked up with anger.

We need to you actually exercise your power and actually do something constructive.

Mr. President, the main bottleneck right now is your team of top economic advisors: Geithner, Summers and Bernanke.

These guys were largely responsible for creating most of the problems which we are experiencing right now. See this, this and this. Mr. President, these guys are choking the economy. They are strangling it. They are cutting off all of its oxygen.

Until you replace them with people who saw this crisis coming and who have ideas about how to actually reform the failed system instead of trying to prop it up, things will just get worse.

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Authors Bio:
George Washington

As a political activist for decades, I have rejoiced in victories for the people and mourned in defeats. I chose the pen name "George Washington" because - as Washington's biographies show - he wasn't a very good strategist, but he was incredibly persistent. He hung in again and again during the worst setbacks and bleakest winters for years. That is what made him great: he simply refused to quit. George Washington therefore inspires me to be a life-long activist.

As an attorney and former law school professor, I am a firm believer that no one - even the high and mighty - are above the law.

As someone trained in environmental systems analysis, I am always looking at how different trends influence each other ... and the big picture.