Once you are deemed a serious person, there is literally no mistake too big to keep people in DC from listening to you:
Robert Rubin is poisoning Washington again.
The former Treasury Secretary who presided over the nearly-fatal deregulation of the financial industry — then made $126 million nearly killing Citigroup — had been keeping an appropriately low profile in the nation’s capital ever since everything he wrought went pear-shaped.
But now he’s back, and once again trying to influence public policy.
On Friday he made his third major (and apology-free) Washington appearance in two weeks, delivering opening remarks at a conference that his pet think tank, the Hamilton Project, co-sponsored with the liberal Center for American Progress.
But the last thing Washington needs right now is another infusion of Rubinomics — by which I mean the combination of deregulatory zeal, deficit obsession, free tradeism and general coziness with fat-cat Wall Street bankers that Rubin epitomizes.
Can’t we just give this guy an op-ed column at the Washington Post with the rest of the DC fuck-ups and be done with him?