Another Rubin Robot in Place

President-elect Barack Obama has named Peter Orszag as his choice to head the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag was a director of Robert Rubiin's pet program, The Hamilton Project.

Here's the bio of Orszag that appeared at CBO, before it was scrubbed:

Peter R. Orszag began his term as the seventh Director of CBO on January18, 2007. Under his leadership, the agency has significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change.Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman SeniorFellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the UrbanInstitute.

In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior
Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar.

He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s(2002).

Dr. Orszag is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences.

Dr. Orszag is an avid runner and the proud father of two children, Leilaand Joshua.

It's The Rubin Robots

Jackie Calmes at IHT fills in more pieces to the puzzle:

It is testament to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's star power among many Democrats that as President-elect Barack Obama fills out his economic team, a virtual Rubin constellation is taking shape.

The president-elect's choices for his top economic advisers — Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers as senior White House economics adviser and Peter Orszag as budget director — are past protégés of Rubin, who held two of those jobs under President Bill Clinton. Even the headhunters for Obama have Rubin ties: Michael Froman, Rubin's chief of staff in the Treasury Department who followed him to Citigroup, and James Rubin, Rubin's son.

LOL: Krugman Blames Lame Duck Bush Administration for Rape of Taxpayers in Citi Bailout

Says Krugman:

Amazing how much damage the lame ducks can do in the time remaining,

In fact, this bailout has Citigroup vice-president and "senior counselor" Robert Rubin's fingerprints all over it. And that means the incoming Obama team was all over the deal, since Rubin's robots are all in position to run Obama economics. And, don't forget, the next Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, a Rubin robot, was also in the room that cut the Citi deal. Geithner is current NY Fed Prez and future Treasury Secretary, do you think he might have had some say in this new rape of the taxpayer?

The Bush Administration was at the scene of this crime, but, make no mistake, the capo in charge was Obama's man Rubin. Nothing in this bailout would have changed in a post Jan. 19 bailout.