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Ex-Obama aide confesses: 'We are pretty darn f**ked'

Everyone’s thinking it, but few are saying it. For former Obama aide Dr Christina Romer, however, she didn’t see any reason to censor herself Friday night on the Real Time with Bill Maher television program.

Romer, in fact, was downright crude while appearing on the show, though albeit maybe a bit too honest.

Just shortly after Standard & Poor’s announced the downgrade of the US credit rating on Friday night, Dr Romer, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, taped an appearance on the late-night HBO program. When host Bill Maher asked her “how f**ked are we?” Romer got abrupt with the anchor.