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Treasury's Geitner Gets Grilled Like a Well-Done Steak During Congressional Hearing Today
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Posted on 01/27/2010 9:16:24 AM PST by quesney

Geitner is getting badly bloodied and gutted in today's congressional hearing -- by members of both parties.

Never seen anything like it.

Several congressmen has gone as far to demand his resignation, during questioning. Others have shouted him down, going far outside their time limit. He has been absolutely berated left and right.

Almost feel sorry for the guy. He's become the poster child for a crisis a lot of people had a hand in, including the American electorate itself.

http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN3.aspx


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aig; bernanke; geithner; treasury; vanity
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1 posted on 01/27/2010 9:16:26 AM PST by quesney
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I hear TurboTax is hiring part-timers right now


2 posted on 01/27/2010 9:17:40 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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Almost feel sorry for the guy.

Feel sorry for him? Not. If he were on fire I wouldn't p*** on him to put it out.

3 posted on 01/27/2010 9:18:04 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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It will be hard for Obama to get this poop off his shoes! ;-)


4 posted on 01/27/2010 9:19:12 AM PST by Dem Guard
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What goes around comes around.


5 posted on 01/27/2010 9:20:18 AM PST by marvlus
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Geithner.
6 posted on 01/27/2010 9:20:36 AM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: quesney

Kind of like watching Edie Haskell get the smackdown from Mr and Mrs Cleaver, eh? Long overdue


7 posted on 01/27/2010 9:21:03 AM PST by silverleaf
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Kind of like watching Eddie Haskell get the smackdown from Mr and Mrs Cleaver, eh? Long overdue


8 posted on 01/27/2010 9:21:17 AM PST by silverleaf
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To: quesney

The congresscritters can’t poop on The One directly, so little Timmy makes a convenient alternate target. Just a shame that it isn’t Rahmbo or Axelrod in the hot seat.


9 posted on 01/27/2010 9:24:17 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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I think they should show a little more respect for him. After all, he's the only person who can fix our economy.

Or so I've been told.

10 posted on 01/27/2010 9:24:31 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Limiting Republicans time to ask Timmy questions.

2 minutes?

Unreal!


11 posted on 01/27/2010 9:24:46 AM PST by maggief
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Geithner has the brains of Lumpy.


12 posted on 01/27/2010 9:25:16 AM PST by Dem Guard
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Yeah, where was our live thread?? I posted on the "caption this picture" thread.

Rats jumping ship like crazy today. Hot rhetoric: "Biggest theft in American history," etc.

The Rat chairman is trying to dismiss Geithner now so they can get to Paulsen, but the members are having a little mutiny because they want to ask more questions. They've just currently all been given an extra couple of minutes to grill Timmy.

We're starting to get to "What did you know about the cover-up and when did you know it?" Waiting for someone to ask him to name names.

Paulsen up for his grilling next.

13 posted on 01/27/2010 9:26:07 AM PST by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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14 posted on 01/27/2010 9:27:18 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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Jack Wheeler and a chief of staff to a top Republican Senator says this guy will be the first to go.


15 posted on 01/27/2010 9:29:42 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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It will be hard for Obama to get this poop off his shoes! ;-)

why should he mind? there is poop IN his shoes...and it goes all the way up into his hat.....

16 posted on 01/27/2010 9:30:04 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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I hear TurboTax is hiring part-timers right now

I think they'd pass on Timmy, being a professed tax cheat and all...

17 posted on 01/27/2010 9:30:22 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: marvlus

Timmy will be lucky if he does not end up in jail. What our gov’t did with TARP and the stimulus bill is criminal and the more we hear about it the worse it sounds.

No accountability, no transparency, and too many pockets that got lined among those in the halls of power. Soros made a record profit and he is the most connected “outsider” there is.

This whole thing makes me sick. We postpone the inevitable correction and subsidized massive failure by trashing the future of our children and our currency. I hope against hope that the GOP wins the house in November so we can have truthful hearings to expose the swindle of the century.


18 posted on 01/27/2010 9:31:30 AM PST by volunbeer (Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
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To: quesney

While at the NY FedRB, Geithner *lied* about France’s position on AIG haircuts. The French were willing to discount the derivative payments that AIG owed to SocieteGeneral and BankofFrance, et al. (that’s called “taking a haircut” in banker lingo).

But Geithner lied, telling everyone at the Fed, Treasury, regulators, Congressmen, et al that France insisted on full payment.

So Shanghai-founded AIG got $182 Billion Dollars from the U.S. Taxpayer.

Geithner lied!


19 posted on 01/27/2010 9:32:00 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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Of course, that’s partly because he opposes Obama’s assault on banks.


20 posted on 01/27/2010 9:32:13 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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