Tim Geithner, congressional punching bag

The Washington Post ^ | 1/28/2010 | Dana Milbank

[Born Conservative]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner must have felt as if he'd made a wrong turn in the Rayburn House Office Building, and instead of taking a seat before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had wound up at the Committee on Insult and Abuse.

It was a rare moment of bipartisan agreement: Republicans and Democrats alike seemed to detest the guy. They were asking about his role in the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG, too-generous government payouts to AIG's business partners, and efforts to hide details of the deal from the public. But really, they were just angry in general over the sweetheart deals the Obama and Bush administrations gave Wall Street -- and Geithner, first as head of the New York Fed and then as Treasury secretary, was a prime culprit.

"You are either incompetent on the job, or you were not doing your job and knew what was taking place and tried to conceal it," charged Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.). "I think that's grounds for your removal."

"It just stinks to the high heaven, what happened here," added Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.). "I don't like the obfuscation. . . . It makes me doubt your commitment to the American people."

[Born Conservative]

"We have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him," said Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.). "And I hope you appreciate the role of Caesar that you're playing today."

[cripplecreek]

Oh I don’t know, I think I’d be happiest if I could get him in a batting cage.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Timmy paid us a visit today....

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[TheZMan]

Wow, what an asshat.

[cranked]

If you all missed the Beck show today, find it and watch it.

He explains the role of Greenspan and his jacka** minions, Bernanke and Geithner, in the economic collapse that they were supposed to be watching out for and preventing.

[M. Espinola]

Geithner is Goldman Sach's inside man

On the hot seat: Condescending Tim Geithner's repeated lies and guilt ridden evasive responses to Congressmen's very heated questions, concerning Geithner not paying his own taxes (until he was bagged) & secretively forking over billions to AIG, Goldman Sachs & other Big Banking CEOs -- with taxpayer funds.

Geithner is a plant in the Obama administration from Goldman Sachs. He was an over willing protégé of ex-Goldman CEO Robert Rubin (Obama 'financial adviser'), who gave Geithner a job in the Clinton Treasury Department (later head of the N.Y. Fed). You can see here in this picture a young Timothy Geithner humbling himself before his Goldman master, as Geithner's Goldman-connected cohorts look on in total approval.

As New York Fed President, Geithner worked closely with ex-Goldman CEO "Hank" Paulson and Fed Chief Bernanke on the bailout of AIG which benefited mostly Goldman. Currently, Geithner's Chief of Staff at Treasury is Mark Patterson - a former lobbyist for Goldman Sachs.

America's massive mounting debt may very well be beyond repair. Little Timmy & his real employers could care less, since all of them been abundantly 'compensated'.

[RJL]

Timmy paid us a visit today....

From the comments:
Next Stop...
Should be the hard workers in St. Cloud at Electrolux and New Flyer plnts. See some lines that run on manpower. See these jobs before they move to Mexico for the lack of having to pay the high American health care. Then tell the Darn GOP to help them out and pass the health care bill.
posted by brandall75 on Jan 28, 10 at 9:24 pm

Useful idiot 'brandall75' seems to believe that after passing ObamaCare the companies will no longer have to pay for health benefits, it will all magically be free for the companies.

It's a step too far for 'brandall75' to recognize that Obama will take at least what they are now paying for health care in new taxes, plus another large percentage for Washington DC's overhead and expenses, and even more for Obama's "spread the wealth around" money.

[CowboyJay]

I thought Timmy and Bammy were going to have a man-kiss before the SOTU. Made me want to retch.

[ex-Texan]

The 0 administration simply reeks of high level corruption. Geithner belongs in an orange jumpsuit. He ought to be behind bars. Not gining speeches to Congress from the witness chair. That crook Bernanke, too, was able to convince our corrupt Congress to give him another few years to steal more of the taxpayers money. Our whole government has been co-opted by this cabal of international bankers disguised as ‘The Fed.’

[M. Espinola]

When the next crash takes place the banking elite will simply hop of their private jets and head to wherever they have already stashed their ‘bailout’ billions, which has already been converted. The sheeple will be left to battle over the crumbs.