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Geithner: Never Thought Debt Talks Would Come 'This Close to The Edge'
FOXNEWS ^ | July 24, 2011 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 07/24/2011 7:33:52 PM PDT by Son House

Edited on 07/24/2011 7:39:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Sunday that he did not initially think lawmakers would bring the debt-ceiling negotiations "this close to the edge," appearing taken aback by the lingering distance between the two sides with an Aug. 2 deadline looming.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; donothingsenate; edge; emptysuit; geithner; littletimmmy; partyofnoplan; talks; taxcheat; timmygeitner; timmyturbotax; unexpected
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To: Son House; All

Boehner should sit Obama and Geintner down, and tell them:

“ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, we won...
You are welcome to come along for the ride, but you’ll have to sit in the back of bus!”

USE OBAMA’S OWN WORDS AGAINST HIM, then go public using those EXACT WORDS, like Obama did with the Failed disaster of “Stimulus”


41 posted on 07/24/2011 9:18:26 PM PDT by tcrlaf (You can only lead a lib to the Truth, you can't make it think...)
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To: Son House

I heard Geithner on Fox this morning. What a moron! This is the smartest guy in the world who we had to accept as Treas. Secy despite his tax fraud? This whole administration is a ship of fools and cheats.


42 posted on 07/24/2011 9:20:40 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Son House

Here’s an even better revelation: I never thought I would live to see a tax cheat head the IRS either....... =.=


43 posted on 07/24/2011 9:30:31 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Soothesayer9
I could hardly bear to watch it! He is so clueless that he must have said about 20 times that the administration wants the debt ceiling raised so that it won't come up again until after the election. Obama has tried so hard to sound above politics, but Geithner revealed the true reason Obama refuses to sign a shorter term increase. Of course, those of us who are not “blinded by the light” that is Obama know that already, but I was still surprised at how often Geithner repeated the word election in his comments.
44 posted on 07/24/2011 9:35:40 PM PDT by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing;therefore choose life..")
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To: so_real

We want to avoid default so we won’t accept a deal that avoids default.

the mind boggles


45 posted on 07/24/2011 9:49:23 PM PDT by Principled
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To: Son House

Every time I hear something Geithner has said, I think “this from a guy that thinks paying taxes is optional.”


46 posted on 07/24/2011 10:03:00 PM PDT by Spok (A free man wants to be neither slave nor master.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Ever notice how he looks like a large rat? Shifty eyes and squint.


47 posted on 07/24/2011 10:29:18 PM PDT by pankot
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To: Son House

You said the same thing about your taxes Tim and that turned out just fine.


48 posted on 07/24/2011 11:08:38 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: quantim

Gordon Liddy, as a plant—with a lighter.


49 posted on 07/24/2011 11:37:45 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: Spok

Geithner - “a guy that thinks paying taxes is optional.”

Just maybe he’s on to something! What would happen if we all followed his lead.


50 posted on 07/25/2011 2:06:45 AM PDT by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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To: so_real

And weren’t there Democrats who signed onto this bill too? Why aren’t they interviewed anywhere in the media?


51 posted on 07/25/2011 3:29:31 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: Son House

And now the big worry about Asian markets according to this there off less then 0.6%, and still no deal...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/24/deficit-talks-in-deadlock-over-timing-taxes/


52 posted on 07/25/2011 3:35:29 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: so_real

Just watched it. Geithner is total clown shoes.


53 posted on 07/25/2011 3:45:54 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: InvisibleChurch
He will just move the deadline back and back until they get what they want.

He can try moving that deadline back, but eventually it won't be up to him as to what that deadline is. Just like me, having to pick and choose which bills get paid this month and which ones have to wait ....it will catch-up and eventually the lights, water, and gas go out because the deadline this time is the utility company.

54 posted on 07/25/2011 3:51:19 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: umgud

The Dems want to give their messiah, Obama, a BLNK CHECK....just like they did when they had the House!!!! That’s why we are in such debt.


55 posted on 07/25/2011 5:38:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mlocher
Elected officials are great at kicking the can down the road and abdicating responsibility. Are there any other jobs where these are 2 valued skills?

Maybe next election cycle we should elect a committee to represent us instead of the pack of morons we have now.

56 posted on 07/25/2011 5:42:33 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: Son House

This story illustrates how far out of touch reality the Obama Administration really is.

Were they really thinking that the Congress and American People would simply roll over and accept their spending bridge to Socialism?

People want this crap to STOP!!

Arrogant and stupidity, that’s what this story tells me about the Obama Admin.


57 posted on 07/25/2011 5:42:49 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Son House

Timmy my boy...you demonstrate a total ignorance of reality.
You don’t put me and my family in that kind of debt ...on “my behalf” ....and then show an increasing unemployment rate and inflation rate.


58 posted on 07/25/2011 5:45:07 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Son House
I prefer this Close to the Edge:

I debt up, I debt down.

59 posted on 07/25/2011 5:45:57 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Son House

[”this close to the edge,”]

Yes, little Timmy, the earth isn’t flat after all.


60 posted on 07/25/2011 5:47:51 AM PDT by RetSignman (It's Summertime...the "Goebbles Warmers" are back from hibernation.)
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