Geithner says he'll stay for 'foreseeable future'

Associated Press ^ | Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:31 PM EDT | KAREN HAWKINS and JIM KUHNHENN

[Texas resident]

He’ll be gone by next Tuesday.

[MrEdd]

Doesn’t he mean he’ll stay for the “unexpected” future?

[eyedigress]

The “foreseeable future” in this administration was at least 3 years ago.

[oyez]

I hope he is near-sighted.

[noinfringers2]

Correction. Geitner has been at Obama’s side since the days when Obama’s mama was working with Geitner’s dad in Indonesia.

[Jim Scott]

Geithner probably has a big-bucks finance job lined up, already. He is toxic for the Obama administration because he is associated with much of Obama’s disastrous economic messes and he wants out from under so first, the on-so sincere denial about leaving, then, in, say, a week or two, the announcement that Timothy Geithner is departing his treasury post due to a new opportunity to help the economy in a different way. Translation: he can get big bucks without the criticism and subsequent embarrassment for heading up the finance sector of a badly failed presidency that failed almost exclusively because of it’s socialist economic philosophy that has never been successful. ‘Bye Timmy. You won’t be missed.

[fwdude]

Nothing like a lame-duck employee for assurance of a job well done.

[P-Marlowe]

I don’t think he will be able to find a job after this.

In fact if he stays another couple of years NOBODY will be able to find a job anywhere.

[BuddhaBrown]

If he’s on for the foreseeable future, I don’t foresee a future.

Whoops, gotta go... Futurama is on in two minutes.

[Zakeet]

I would like to bail on the Wee Wee, but ...

• I don't have another cushy job to go to

• I'm not really qualified to be anything other than a greeter at Wal-Mart

• I would be nothing more than an ordinary idiot

• I would have to file my taxes again like the little people

• I'm having too much fun ruining the economy

[Hunton Peck]

If he plays guitar, maybe he can get work as a Lindsey Buckingham cover act:

I don't think it matters much whether he stays or goes, though. If he does go, the replacement's mission will remain the same: to so weaken the productive sector that it can be squeezed out by the government sector.

[newzjunkey]

“foreseeable future” sounds like code for “I’m a goner”

[Hunton Peck]

Yeah, it's really an oxymoron. There is no future that's forseeable to us mere mortals, so the "forseeable future" ends right...about...

[gigster]

It's the only thing I've ever done.

No one in this regime has ever had a honest, productive job in their lives.

[Iron Munro]

He can’t leave yet.

Parts of the country are still standing.

[M-cubed]

I don’t think he will be able to find a job after this.<<but....but...but

“I live for this work. It's the only thing I've ever done.”

Think there's some stimulus money left for retraining...closest line of work similar to his past work experience would be a Proctologist....He'd be doing the same work...just on a smaller scale...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Why does everybody in the Obummer admin remind me of this quote?

“You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life.”

- Admiral Benson,”Hot Shots”

[Notary Sojac]

Well, if the foreseeable future means “until something unexpected happens”, under Obamanomics that could be like, until lunchtime today.

[Caipirabob]

He’ll be gone by next Tuesday.

LOL!

I was going to comment that next Tuesday is probably as far into the future as geithner can see anyways.