[babble-on]

Anyone know much about this guy?

He was twice head of OMB, in last two years of Clinton, and under Obama, as well as later being Obama’s chief of staff.

Clearly very bright, but no financial markets background, but maybe that doesn’t matter as much now. Obama clearly thinks budget fights are going to be an ongoing matter and wants someone with a strong brief in those fights on his side.

Orthodox Jew, according to Wikipedia

[Don Corleone]

Yup. Timothy is getting really behind on his taxes and said he needed the time off to catch up.

[AtlasStalled]

. . . a new king is crowned!

[when the time is right]

BUT, BUT....I thought Geithner was the only man who could do the job and without him the economy would collapse. Isn't that what we were sold in 2009? So does this mean he has done his job and the world is safe or does this mean he really couldn't do the job and is moving on to more important things. I'm confused.

[DickBrannigan]

Hmmmm. I see a pattern here.....

[C210N]

Unless he cheated on his taxes, he is ineligible! [in this regime]

[BitWielder1]

Does he ever nominate someone who is not controversial and in-your-face?

[TurboZamboni]

I’d rather have Jack Link...love his jerky.(plus he probably understands economics better,too)

[Candor7]

And what are Mr. Off’s ( Lew) finance qualifications that would support his nomination, other than having his nose up Obama’s arse?

[a fool in paradise]

Did he cheat on his taxes too? That seems to be a requirement now.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

LINK to comments about Lew's lies about Social Security, contradicting Lew's own stsatments he made in the Clinton WH:

The new line from the White House is: no need to fix it because there is no problem. As Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew wrote in USA Today just a few weeks ago, the trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks.

This claim is a breathtaking fraud.

The pretense is that a flush trust fund will pay retirees for the next 26 years. Lovely, except for one thing: The Social Security trust fund is a fiction.

If you don't believe me, listen to the OMB's own explanation (in the Clinton administration budget for fiscal 2000 under then-Director Jack Lew, the very same). The OMB explained that these trust fund "balances" are nothing more than a "bookkeeping" device. "They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits."

In other words, the Social Security trust fund contains - nothing.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He’s only eligible if he owes back taxes.

[Rebelbase]

I must be tired and the dyslexia is kicking in. This is the 2nd time this afternoon I’ve read the article title as “Jew Lack”.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Folks and FRiends,

The word is getting around the net that Obammie and his Commies may enact a little known part of the 1968 Gun Control act that gives the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of firearms.

This would greatly reduce the number and types of firearms we have available to us and would greatly overload US manufacturers of firearms, which could result in year-long waiting periods due to back-ordering.

WE NEED TO GET PREPARED TO PUT UP THE MOST VALIANT NON-VIOLENT FIGHT OF OUR LIVES TO RESIST THE TYRANNICAL ACTIONS OF THE OUTRIGHT COMMUNISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VRWC For Truth]

Larry Kudlow had a segment on his show about Clueless Lew. Steve Forbes called Lew, a taxer, a regulator, and a weak dollar supporter. Aka a Barry azz kisser. Kudlow also related a story that Lew was a major distraction at the Bonor / Soetoro cliff talks. Apparently Lew shouted NO to every Bonor proposal. Bonor couldn’t take it and walked out ending the talks. Lew spent 1 year in the private sector and the rest of his life bouncing from one job to another in gov’t. Lew don’t know Jack. Total Barry brown nosing clone.

[Brown Deer]

[bert]

We have learned that Lew is pretty much the definition of a Wonk.

One wonders how many were asked and turned down the position. I think only a fool would accept that job under Obama