[Libloather]

"Nobody here drafted those contracts (providing for the bonuses). Nobody here was responsible for supervising AIG and allowing themselves to put the economy at risk by some of the outrageous behavior that they were engaged in," Obama said.

Not true...

[tips up]

Teleprompter says...

[ari-freedom]

See no evil, hear no evil

[Argus]

Geithner looks more and more like a whipped dog.

[freekitty]

I still say they poltical paybacks especially since some of the money was sent to foreign countries. The WH is laundering our money trying to break America.

Obama legit or not needs to go.

[dr_who]

If Geithner’s toast at this point, then I wonder what human filth Obama will replace him with. It’s kind of like being a Soviet citizen when Stalin died and no one was yet sure who had the reins of power.

[ari-freedom]

“This is hard”

[screaminsunshine]

My new Trs. Sec. Alexander Hamilton tells me Thomas Jefferson is just a radical radio talk host.

[hflynn]

Timorthy’s hero is Alexander Hamilton. Mind has always been Aaron Burr. Timorthy and I agree that a single shot will improve the economy and as I told Timorthy I will be taking that shot as soon as possible.

[alecqss]

Geithner can not resign; he can not be thrown under the bus either - anything like that would doom the glorious leader.

In meantime the snake oil salesman in chief departs on just another teleprompter reading tour...

[PGR88]

Uh, Tim - hold off for a while on filling those empty 49 deputy secretary positions.....

[HEY4QDEMS]

Geithner: Please Barry, if you don’t have Scope, eat some tic-tac’s.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

No caption, but I can hear the Bamster channeling his inner Tammy Wynette...”Stand by your man...”

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Spilt Milk . . . The Sequel”

Starring ex-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as Harvey Milk

[Texas Eagle]

“Damn, dude. Haven’t you ever heard of breath mints?”

[advance_copy]

Two men who are doing exactly the same things that Jimmy Carter did. And we should expect the same results.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Nothing comes to mind, but there’s a nice shot of Carter picking his nose on Drudge right now...

[Spokane]

To uh change that Shaving job To joy You uh gotta use The real McCoy Burma-Shave? What the? Hey! That's not the teleprompter! That's a billboard!"

[all the best]

Obama is shifting the spotlight to the AIG executive bonuses, but his own hand-picked Treasury Secretary is responsible for far more of the AIG mess than Obama cares to acknowledge. Tim Geithner is one of the architects of the fraud-ridden AIG black hole and other bailouts. He's been wrong for years and still is wrong, and so have all those around him who participated in this travesty. Washington still has announced no definitive procedures to separate banks from their toxic assets, even though the FDIC procedures are readily available for this purpose and could be reasonably fair in zeroing out the equity and subordinate debtholders. The only Washington plan has been to bail out those crony banks and financial firms that have made loans to banks. These creditors deserve their losses. They brought them on to themselves by making such poor investments and not evaluating the risk of their counterparties. The entire epsiode is the largest single fraud against taxpayers in history. Multi-billions are being and have been paid to AIG's creditors (counterparties), including hedge funds and banks. The millions paid as bonus money to executives need not have been paid anymore than the amounts paid to creditors because the company has been de facto bankrupt for months and would have been de jure bankrupt, had it not been for Geithner's folly, which is also the FED's and Washington's folly.

[expatpat]

Geithner: “I have this teeeeerrible headache.....”

[Deo volente]

"I am 1000% for Tim Geithner, and I have no intention of dropping him as my Treasury Secretary!"