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Treasury This Moment
Another subcabinet nominee withdraws — and Timothy Geithner and his boss are the main reason for what is a burgeoning fiasco in filling slots and making policy.
“People think Wall Street and our economy are in a mess? They have nothing on what we’re going through here,” said a career Treasury Department official after learning yesterday that former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission member Annette Nazareth had withdrawn from consideration to serve as deputy Treasury secretary.
Senior White House officials were telling reporters on background last night that Nazareth withdrew from consideration because initial feedback from the Senate on her possible nomination was that she would endure a tough confirmation process due to her role at the SEC directing oversight of market regulation. But associates of Nazareth familiar with the situation say that there were other reasons for her to pull out. “She simply lost confidence in [Treasury Secretary Timothy] Geithner,” says a colleague of Nazareth’s at the law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. “There’s a lot of that going around, we hear.”
Nazareth’s decision is doubly embarrassing for the Obama White House because, her husband, Roger Ferguson, current CEO of TIAA-CREFF and former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, currently serves on the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a post he was given by Obama.
Creating further confusion at Treasury, Caroline Atkinson, who currently works at the International Monetary Fund, also withdrew from consideration as undersecretary for international affairs. According to Treasury and Capitol Hill sources, her decision was linked to possible tax situations similar to that of Geithner.
“We have no one here. There is no leadership,” says another senior career Treasury official. “I’ve never seen anything like it. We have a secretary who seems to have no understanding of what his job entails, and no one in the White House seems to either know it or want to acknowledge it. We have people making decisions who shouldn’t be making decisions, and in positions where we should have people making decisions about our domestic economy, our banking system and our Wall Street recovery plan, we have no one. People should be alarmed by this, but no one seems to care.”
Currently, the only Senate-confirmed undersecretary is Stuart Levey, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, but he is a Bush Administration confirmee, held over by the Obama Administration.
Late Thursday night rumors swirled around the Obama White House that Lee Sachs, a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton Administration, who worked on the Obama transition team and who was “pitching in” in an advisory role for Geither, was also mulling withdrawing from consideration for a senior Treasury post.
Both Treasury officials who spoke on background say that there is a growing lack of confidence within the department over Geithner. One said, “He is a nice man, but he is out of his depth.”
On Wednesday, according to a senior Democratic leadership aide, Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was “underwhelmed” by Geithner’s performance during testimony on the budget. “I think it’s safe to say that at least the Senate Democratic leadership is less than pleased with the performance of this White House and this Treasury Department. It’s a ***damned mess.”
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Henry Morgenthau Jr.| 3.6.09 @ 6:56AM
Geithner's BFF, Lindsay Graham should take one for the team, resign from the Senate and go to work for him. Gov Sanford could appoint a real conservative to take Graham's place.
Rusty Gordon| 3.6.09 @ 7:36AM
What this situation calls for is a good speech. Some "soaring rhetoric" could fix all the problems at Treasury. Hope. Change.
Ken Miller| 3.6.09 @ 7:36AM
What do you mean Geithner doewsn't know what he is doing. He is doing exactly what the -one wants him to do. Tank the economy, so his internal security force can take over and move the kulaks out.
dennisl59| 3.6.09 @ 7:48AM
Directive 10-290, in effect. Who is John Galt?
frost| 3.6.09 @ 8:00AM
Amen, Dennis. Started re-reading Ayn Rand's superb classic a short time ago ("1984" is next, again; try to re-read it every dozen years or so).
In my edition, page 324 kinda starts a recitation of what I view as the thinking in Obama's futile Treasury exercise. Pitiful, nothing less.
Yet, the uneducated (with the complicity of the cheerleading media) still think that neo-Marxist is great? We're in serious trouble, gang -- and "Atlas Shrugged" should be required-reading for congress - - but I doubt they'd comprehend its meaning....
TennesseeVolunteer| 3.6.09 @ 8:04AM
The adults aren't in charge anymore and look what hope and change hath wrought!
I was just watching Scarborough and they were talking about radical Islamists and when they take over a country's government, the country falls into economic ruin, murder and famine (like Darfur).
The Obama team is not much different. There are very few adults on the team and the cabal of change and hope artists (Emmanuel, Carville, Begala, Geithner, Obama etc.) have never run anything. They don't know what to do. They have sat on the outside of this country's day to day workings bitching about hope and change. But when it is their turn to run things, they don't have a clue and probably disable any adults they do have on staff. With crazy goals (like ruining an economy, raising spending, giving away health care, giving bailouts to companies that don't have customers like GM), they are dooming us to economic failure.
They are pigs at the trough, it is all they know. Carter proved it. Hunker down america, support the companies that do things right (Ford didn't take a bailout). Be ready to be the adults when the storm is over.
Melvin| 3.6.09 @ 8:05AM
This might be considered a simplistic opinion of Mr. Geithner, but after much deliberation Mr. Geithner is nothing more than a cheap Brooks Brother's wearing weasel.
Anyone is in a powerful position and makes a conscious decision not to pay their taxes, is a weasel.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.6.09 @ 8:15AM
We're watching a White House fiddling with Rush while Rome burns.
I have become convinced that Obama has hit on a solution, if he would only carry through on it.
Obama's fascination with tax cheats and crooks presents an opportunity for success, but it's too obvious, and perhaps that's why the Obama White House has missed it.
FEMA and the Department of Justice need to scour America's prisons to seek former crooked accountants, CPA's, and former crooked CEO's who would like to seek a government appointment.
Our prisons are full of white collar criminals and other then the fact they got caught and couldn't use their political connections to stay out of trouble or get a pardon from Bill Clinton, they are probably as good at scamming the American public out of their wealth as the current White House staff.
This would put people currently out of work to work in the Obama administration allowing him to claim a moral victory if nothing else. It would also save the taxpayers money as hundreds of white collar criminals are taken off of one public dole and put to work with the rest of the White House staff.
I urge the public to e-mail the White House with this suggestion so we can help them accomplish their goal of total criminality.
Dave| 3.6.09 @ 8:16AM
Remember, Congress doesn't read things that are over 1000 pages. So that would rule out Atlas...or the "stimulus bill."
TennesseeVolunteer| 3.6.09 @ 8:25AM
Had to post one more time...Peggy Noonan on Scarborough and now they are blaming the republicans for 8 FAILED YEARS and THEY ARE CRITICIZING THE REPUBLICANS FOR NOT OFFERING AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN. Sorry for yelling but I am so angry!
Hey Scarborough, here it is:
cut personal taxes by 5% at each level
cut capital gains by 10% or more
cut corporate taxes by a third
Let the market work, it is going to hurt for awhile but if you show growth strategies to the private investors to get back in the game, they will begin to invest in projects, companies..confidence will be gained.. the adult investors who have gotten out of the market will start putting their money in the market.
I am not an economist, just a simple business man but lets get back to the basics., If not, we simple business people will be waiting to pick up the pieces after the economic tsunami is over.
Nick| 3.6.09 @ 8:49AM
Mr. Morgenthau,
That is one of the best suggestions I've heard lately. I hope and pray it happens.
Chairman Obomber| 3.6.09 @ 8:52AM
Fire up the Teleprompter!
1Freeman| 3.6.09 @ 9:20AM
These bozos have a free pass with a complete Dum-O-Crat majority in both houses and STILL these loosers can't find people experienced enough or honest enough to fill the positions. This ship sank the day Obama was sworn in. To say our republic is in peril for it's life is an understatement. You can't make thes crap up! It is almost as if they *want* our nation to fall.
There is no way any self respecting democrat can look at this gigantic mess and claim the "change" the slick obama campain promised has even the slightest chance of happening. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
Democrats, you have to admit that this is super-wicked ugly and that the dude you voted for doesn't exist. It was a slick scam job and a lie! He doesn't have the experience needed to drive a grabage truck, much lead the United States of America! You have betrayed America with your vote.
Bill| 3.6.09 @ 9:41AM
Accountability is always a bitch. And they the liberal dems and the rest of the cheats will be held accountable by the people of this country. Those of us who remember the disaster of Jimmy Carter will remember BO as being worse. Children attempting to play adults.
Chickens coming home to roost| 3.6.09 @ 10:12AM
Consumerism, huge spending on arms, plastic trinkets, war mongering, over eating, living in excess, huge demand for foreign oil to prop up the vast false economy. Huge spending on funding terrorism, Credit cards, usury, theft.
No spending on development, huge spending on plots to take over oil producing countries, to control and dictate, state sponcered theft and robbery,the murder of children, looting of foreign countries. While all this was going on no one took into account of the cost.
The Iraq venture of theft mass murder and distruction with the only aim the theft and robbery of the Iraqi people, leaving unexploded cluster bombs and mountains of depleated urainium bombs to create deformed babies, which will be radio active for 4.5 billion years.
No care about the fact that the troops in the area will eventually develope cancer and die.
The son's and daughters of Cain, who killed his own brother, and sold one of his brothers into slavery their actions is like the scorpion to sting as it is to kill it's in their nature, the earth cries out because it's soaked with the blood of his brothers.
Jeff W| 3.6.09 @ 10:28AM
Chickens coming home to roost
Are you off your meds or are you going somewhere with this rambling? I suggest something smaller that will fit on a poster board. Then you can wear it around your neck and preach doom and gloom to the masses like all the other wacko's
frost| 3.6.09 @ 10:34AM
Briefly, chickens -- about 50-million people were freed by our troops -- BUT, Dubya was a lousy leader -- terrible! He allowed the McLellans in the Pentagon to goof around with a no-win policy for 3-4 years longer than necessary, 'til ge got Petraeus in there -- AND, he should have either (1) insisted that we get paid for our efforts in oil, or (2) the coin-of-the-rhelm, cash from Iraqui oil profits.
Have to also agree with another writer - - if you think Jimmy Carter was bad, this present neo-Marxist will make Jimmy's futility look like chump-change. We're in mighty deep trouble, gang!
Appleby| 3.6.09 @ 10:41AM
Re-read "Lord of the Flies" and "Brave New World" too. You can probably download them into your binkie if you are too young to know how to read words longer than 4 letters.
My opinion is that nobody wants to touch this, you should excuse the expression, tar baby because anybody with an ounce of sense knows he or she will be blamed for its Humpty Dumpty Ending.
See you at Galt's Gulch. You know the way.
Rocco| 3.6.09 @ 10:41AM
frost!
My sentiments exactly....I was in uniform, in the Pentagon during all of this, and I just had to cringe at all of it.
BTW, is it Rio, Florianopolis, or Costa Rica?? Florianopolis is still looking good.
Like your posts! Be safe, e boa sorte, meu amigo!
ruth| 3.6.09 @ 11:00AM
Does anyone know the expiration date of 'it's Bush's fault'?
Gill O'Teen| 3.6.09 @ 11:13AM
I see 2 possibilities: either obumah is a stupid jackass who is incapable of connecting the dots in a children's coloring book much less understanding that not raising taxes on 95% of this country's workers and stealing even more money from these same Americans by raising the taxes on companies which produce such important products as coal, gasoline and electricity are contrary policies; or he truly is 1000% smarter than Stephen Hawking and knows exactly what he is doing. I am more frightened of the second possibility.
I am seriously considering liquidating my last remaining paper asset other than the few dollars in my wallet - those will vanish soon enough, and buying more metal such as gold, silver and lead. The wonderful irony is that if the lemming in chief and his cronies in congress approve even more capital gains theft, I won’t have to pay any since sadly there will be no gains to tax.
Invest in precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, copper and brass encased lead. Brass encased lead is more valuable when carried in a concealed steel container. Take a two by four to your next Tea Party.
frost| 3.6.09 @ 11:19AM
Obrigado, Rocco. It may take a while to determine the place/area we "escape" to -- but, at this point, I see little choice, assuming that the demented ones and their Marxist policies prevail.
Hey, we're badly outnumbered by the Something-for-Nothing bunch of parasites -- and I've had over 50% of my earnings (again, EARNINGS!) withheld by IRS, prior to Reagan's '82 tax-cut. Call me selfish? Quepos or the Jaco' area on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica (nice people too!) or the friendly fun-lovers in Brasil? We shall see....
barry cranston| 3.6.09 @ 11:21AM
Remember this is the one man who could save us. We heard it from the entire Obama team. Patience. When the market hits ...ohhh...3,000, he'll unveil the master plan.
Dave | 3.6.09 @ 11:23AM
A poster here asked: "Is there an expiration date on blaming Bush?"
Probably not. Fact is, there's still a group of hacks roaming the fruited plane who haven't stopped blaming NIXON for inflation, spiking unemployment and *who actually shot J.R.
(*check your '70's TV Guide.)
frost| 3.6.09 @ 11:25AM
Beautiful comment, Ruth! Sure, Dubya was a pretty lousy president, but, compared to AlGore (who flunked Divinity Achool, and NOBODY flunks Divinity School) or John Kerry....?
McCain was a rotten choice, but Obama makes all others pale in comparrison, at least thus far, and given his background (Frank M Davis/Communist, socialist Saul Alinsky, terrorist Bill Ayres and anti-American Bed Wetter "Reverend" Wright, among others) why should we expect anything better than the mess he's promised.
Todd| 3.6.09 @ 11:36AM
I want to hear what Bob has to say about this. Actually I don't but I want to remind him how wrong he is. I remember him going on about what a great economic team Obama had assembled with Geithner and Summers and what we really have in a 3-ring circus where no one knows what the hell is going on. Geithner going after oil companies about taxes and global warming shows just how pathetic he is, nothing but a government hack who takes talking points from The White House to keep his job. So get off your damn high horse Bob, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Jim| 3.6.09 @ 11:41AM
Geithner got the Treasury job because Obama's mother worked for Peter Geithner when she lived in Indonesia. Peter is little Timmy's father, folks. PG and his bankster buddies are the ones who pushed Obama's grandmother up the banking ladder and who have engineered Obama's "rise from nowhere" to the WH. Keep your eye on the banksters, friends.
J David| 3.6.09 @ 11:53AM
It will always be "Bush's fault" as long as there is a lap-dog MSM propaganda/enforcement arm connected to our communist gov't. Much of the fault really does lie with "compassionate conservatives" for giving us a communist dictator, and as Michelle Malkin says, pre-socializing the economy for the Obamunist.
Angel| 3.6.09 @ 11:54AM
I'm keeping my eye on the flat-lining DOW. Someone should call 911.
CH| 3.6.09 @ 11:57AM
Todd, where is Bob? I want to hear his 24/7/365 Obama defense. Gag.
Pete | 3.6.09 @ 12:20PM
The success of the Annointed One's coup, buoyed by a fawning MSM, and his continued savaging of the Great Experiment is directly proportional to the consumate abiltiy of the American people to sleep through just about anythint.
Dustoff| 3.6.09 @ 12:44PM
More bad news for Obama
++++++++++++++++++++++
Friday, March 06, 2009
Forty-one percent (41%) of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of the $3.6-trillion budget proposed by President Obama in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But 46% hold an unfavorable view, and 13% are not sure.
Stan Redmond| 3.6.09 @ 12:46PM
Who in there right mind wants to jump on the sinking ship piloted by Captain Geitner (the only man qualified to understand the TARP)? Apparently, no one.
Aaron| 3.6.09 @ 1:09PM
Jim, is that true about the relationship between Obama's grandmother and Geihter's father. I never heard this before. This is very interesting info.
Griff| 3.6.09 @ 1:14PM
Obamachev is achieving his goal: make most Americans dependent upon the beneficence of the government with a select oligarchy (liberals, all) in charge.
CH| 3.6.09 @ 1:24PM
Obama's attached at the hip to his teleprompter. He's in WAY over his head.
Stefie| 3.6.09 @ 1:33PM
Hey Ruth! It will never NOTbe Bush's fault.
He will be their whippin' boy for some time to come.
Emily from Grovers Corner| 3.6.09 @ 1:59PM
Do you remember the time when folks would criticize Bush and be reprimanded with “He’s the POTUS. You HAVE to respect the President” - that meaning, by virtue of holding the title (I refuse to say “office” since Bush never did an honest day’s work in or out of any office) of President of the United States, he/she was the living symbol of this country. . .remember when Dixie Chicks commented in London that they were “ashamed that Bush was from Texas” and the C/W crowd went nutso and sought to not only destroy their careers but their families and their lives? Why? Because Bush was the President and the POTUS was deserving of respect. . . so why is it okay NOW, March 6 2009, for people to say they want the POTUS to fail - why is it okay for so-called “respected” elected officials to say they agree with RL and they want this particular POTUS to fail? Why is no one screaming traitor in their faces? (John Galt) Why is no one demanding that these folks be brought up on charges of crimes against the state? Why is no one demanding that these folks go live somewhere else since they obviously don’t love America? Why is that? Any Republicans out there who would like to explain why it is wrong for the Dixie Chicks to say to a London audience that they are embarrassed by Bush, but that it’s okay for Rush Limbaugh to proclaim to his international audience that he wants Obama to fail?
ruth| 3.6.09 @ 2:00PM
Well, Obama is fast becoming our Laughing Stock. Clown-in-Chief.
CH| 3.6.09 @ 2:04PM
Emily, did you see President Bush and his spokesmen try to destroy the Dixie Chicks for their stupid remarks? The answer is no, moron. Nice try.
Pingback| 3.6.09 @ 2:13PM
Geithner’s Top Two Treasury Assistants Withdraw; 17 Unfilled Top Jobs At U.S. Treasur links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ray| 3.6.09 @ 2:15PM
Sure, Emily, continue to draw attention away from the failing Obama cabinet and sow blame on Bush. Love Bush or hate him, at least he had a WORKING Cabinet. Obama can't say the same.
John| 3.6.09 @ 2:33PM
Perhaps Bernard Madoff would be interested in the job. Apparently he is an excellent salesman. He might just be able to sell the Treasury's plan.
Mark| 3.6.09 @ 2:45PM
Always said the best way to shut a liberal up is to put them in charge!
Pingback| 3.6.09 @ 3:08PM
Loss Of Confidence At US Treasury, Nominees Withdraw | westorlandonews.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Truth to Power| 3.6.09 @ 3:14PM
Emily is right. People should be forced to buy Dixie Chick music. Emily needs to be reminded that "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." Rush Limbaugh understands his audience a lot better than the Dixie Chicks understood theirs. In a free society it is always a mistake to insult your customer. Besides music I wouldn't take Natalie Maines opinion seriously unless it was about fast food.
Tim| 3.6.09 @ 3:31PM
Ruth, My guess is that Bush was officially out of the picture at 12:01 p.m. on January 20, 2009.
You know things are not going according to the play book when the Treasury Dept. can't even get folks to work as Big 'G's" deputy.
The good news is that the worse this becomes the better assured conservatives are that it will be a cold day in hell before socialists ever assume power in the USA again.
JeffW| 3.6.09 @ 3:52PM
Emily, Emily, Emily.
The people suffering from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) permanently lowered the bar. Then they want to complain when they are on the recieving end of the same treatment?
And is for Rush's statement. You really need to do your research and stop relying on the liberal talking points. Rush stated that if President Obama wanted to impose socialism then yes he wanted him to fail. He wants socialism to fail. It is very revealing that you think it is ok for the White House to go after a individual american. The last president to do this was Nixon and oh how the left howled when he did it. Do you want socialism to succeced? If that is President Obama's goal then yes, I too want him to fail. He works for and represents me and all the other taxpayers. Not the other way around.
Orion| 3.6.09 @ 4:00PM
If he resigns, he'll have paid his back taxes for nothing!
Dixie Chick| 3.6.09 @ 4:38PM
Stephen Colbert/
“Stung by the negative public reaction to Rush’s takeover of the Republican Party, a new line of spin has been birthed by the crazies on the Right — that the dastardly Democrats have conspired to push Limbaugh into the public debate to take away attention from the failed Obama Administration.”
Colbert on Hannity/
“I mean to warrant obsequious crack-licking like that, he must have said something terrible,” theorized Colbert of Hannity’s praise. “I mean — something like the vacuum in Republican leadership has allowed a mean-spirited, lard-assed talk radio host to become the de facto leader which is turning an already crippled party into a bickering laughingstock.”
Celtica| 3.6.09 @ 5:01PM
Ruth, the expiration date occurs simultaneously with the expiration date of blaming Jimmy Carter for the end of the world. . .
Miss Webb| 3.6.09 @ 5:04PM
Truth to Power| 3.6.09 @ 3:14PM
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
As in / jon galt| 3.3.09 @ 6:35PM
“Much easier to just assassinate the top five democrats and watch what how the rest respond."
This is TREASON, Truth to Power. No one blinked when Galt posted this yesterday. Is this what you desperate pitiful leaderless group of loosers have stooped to? Shameful, shameful, shameful.
Nick| 3.6.09 @ 5:33PM
Miss Webb,
You say "Galt" posted this yesterday, but the quote you pasted says "3.3.09". How can this be?
Maybe a stinking liberal wrote that garbage under the name "Galt", then attacked everyone here for not responding to it under another name like..I don't know...maybe "Miss Webb".
That is shameful, troll.
Matt| 3.6.09 @ 5:41PM
In Carter's case, it's true. No one more stupid than that toothy jack-ass. Jimmmmah!
CH| 3.6.09 @ 5:44PM
Miss Webb is a shining example of the scholars routinely puked out by our Publik Skool System. Ain't she smart?
Frosty| 3.6.09 @ 5:47PM
It didn't bother you liberal morons when you wrote books about the assassination of George Bush. Shut up, it's your turn to suck it up now.
Willey| 3.6.09 @ 5:49PM
Dixie Chick, your Obama knee-pads are showing.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.6.09 @ 5:55PM
Late breaking news. As part of Bernie Madoff's plea deal, he will take over a high ranking position at Treasury. He never cheated on his taxes so he will garner more respect from the public then Geithner. You heard this juicy item here first!
fox| 3.6.09 @ 8:26PM
This is awful. What is needed now is....
Obama hops on a plane, flies a few thousand miles, and makes a "campaign" stop.
That will fix everything. Just make sure Obama packs the teleprompter.
Willey| 3.6.09 @ 9:52PM
He doesn't have to pack the 'prompter', they're joined at the hip.
moron| 3.6.09 @ 11:04PM
Emily, wanting Obama to fail is the MSM and its sheep stated, a distortion of what Rush stated. Rush stated he wants socialism to fail. Have more Kool-Aid.
Roscoe| 3.6.09 @ 11:18PM
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/obamas-economic-saviour-savaged-as-keating-lets-rip-20090306-8rk7.html
Try this for a revealing insight to Geithner's past miserable failure. First Indonesia, now us..
Virginia Patriot| 3.7.09 @ 7:45AM
To Tennessee Volunteer & other responsible adults
We all agree The One is out to wreck the economy and we all know someone who can't use tax software sure shouldn't be running the Treasury Department for a Country with a $2 Trillion dollar budget and a $13 Trillion GDP.
A lot of us are "Going Galt" either by design or as a result of punative taxes. So when it collapses and the folks start looking for adults, we have to 1 thing as we re-gain a handle on things -NEVER let children drive again. If they're RINO socialists or Democrat socilaists - they never get power and when they break laws they go to jail. PERIOD. Had Geitherner been jailed like he should have been it would be one less child in charge and 1 more jackass in jail - good for the country & good for our children.
Deborah | 3.7.09 @ 1:53PM
Well, The Prowler's column is reassuring, huh? This president cares nothing about the country, that's as obvious to anyone who's paying attention.
He keeps fiddling while Atlas shrugs.
Tim| 3.7.09 @ 1:58PM
Here is the difference between the "far right" and the "far left."
Far Right 2009.....
"We want Socialism to fail because we believe in individual freedom and a limited form of government to lord over us."
Far Left 2005-2008
"We want the War in Iraq to fail and lots of American war deaths because it will increase our chance on taking back the white house in the 2008 election"
That is the Truth....and every thinking intelligent American knows it. All the other stuff is pure crapola.
A. Bunker| 3.7.09 @ 1:58PM
The liberal media is just trying to convince us that Republicans bear responsibility for what the government did when they were in charge of it.
What the liberal media doesn't want you to know is that liberals have secretly been running the show up there in Washington DC, and the bad economy is entirely their fault.
Bush didn't do anything wrong, ever. Neither did anyone who works for him or who is willing to say in public he supported him.
See, liberalism is a big hall full of smoke and daggers. It's like finding a needle in a haystack, keeping track of what these traitors will do next.
If you don't watch out, they always stab you in the back and then put a special tax on stabbed backs!
That's how they operate and you're a true fool if you watch the news and don't see it.
A. Bunker| 3.7.09 @ 2:01PM
The Democrat Socialist agenda really is in full sway now and they won't stop till every man woman and child in America is a slave or dead.
Obama is a socialist, Harry Reid is a socialist, Lunancy Pelosi is a socialist. They're all socialists. Hell, you're a socialist too.
Every once in a while I ask myself, where did all these socialists come from, and how did they get to where they sorround me. Then I ask, maybe I'm a socialist, too, and just don't know it. That's a socialist works -- it sort of sneaks up on you.
It's like Rev. Haggard preaching against queers for all those years, and then it turns out he's one too. Maybe it's like that. You never know.
American Working Abroad| 3.7.09 @ 2:53PM
Don't start the tea parties without me!
Frosty| 3.7.09 @ 4:16PM
Get home, we need you! :)
Kill the Empire forever| 3.7.09 @ 5:02PM
The Mass Murder of people around the world and the IMF controled by you know who, I hope the American economy never recover. I hope America die off like the British Empire, and the Roman Empire. People around the world needs to live in peace and as long as America has money they will continue to kill and murder people, I hope they die out for ever.
Tim| 3.7.09 @ 5:36PM
The Roman Empire didn't have enough Nukes to blow this world to Kingdom come, thy will be done.
So, "Kill the Empire Forever" you had better learn how to kneel and kiss America's private parts and learn to get used to it....the Army and the secret service Obama does not control.....what part of this truth don't you understand?
Kill the Empire forever| 3.7.09 @ 7:51PM
I am Daphne, the biggest, nastiest b!tch in the universe. Have you ever beheld a more vicious hater? I am also crazy and I frequently screw up the English language. I am hugely fat, am missing several teeth in front, and have terrible body odor. In short, I am a wretched socialist--please forgive me, most beautiful America.
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El Wayne| 3.7.09 @ 10:40PM
Hey guys & gals, children & grownups...they're called "demo"crats because we're all being taken for a ride...to hell in a handbasket. One blogger thinks we're all queers & socialists and don't know it yet because it snuck up on us. Man talk about not knowing your ass from your elbow...we have landed in a bucket of sh@t.
Fred| 3.7.09 @ 10:48PM
Hey Hey Hey - more tax cheats - who could ever have seen that one coming. Next time IRS wants my money, I'll ask em to call Taxcheat Timmy - he got off so why can't I ?
One of the reasons Timmay ! got his job is because his dad used to supervise Blowbama's mom in Indonesia. Go check Wikipedia for the story.
Fred| 3.7.09 @ 10:54PM
I will also add - Obama is Hoover. Go read The Fourth Turning - this was all laid out in that book in 1997. Bush on the other hand, played the part of the incredibly corrupt Coolidge - history is repeating. We get another Great Depression, followed a few years later by a big war. 1780 1860 1940 they come 80 years apart - the length of a long human life - a saeculum.
Personally, I knew WHOEVER got to be Prez this time around was screwed, poor Obama is in so far over his head, I just have to feel sorry for the guy. He inherits the decisions of nisanely CORRUPT leadership going all the way back to the 1960's - and he is trying to bluff his way out of the deepest hole in history.
Jeremiah| 3.8.09 @ 3:09AM
Obama is the biggest hole in history. I don't feel sorry for that arrogant azzclown. Obama is the face of democrat corruption, Chicago style.
Skep41 | 3.8.09 @ 12:12PM
Si Se Puede! You right-wingers dont get it do you? Putting someone in charge of nationalizing the banks who knows something about banking defeats the whole ethic of the Obama Revolution. People looked at Obama's total lack of administrative experience and his sub-mediocre legislative career, read his cliche-packed ghost-written books and elected this clown as president. Shouldnt he be surrounded by people who dont make him feel inept or uncomfortable? The Treasury Secretary is no biggie. Its not like Geithner doesnt have titans like Brney Frank and Chris Dodd backstopping him over on the hill. John Kerry will help him set fair salary rates for bank employees. So chill. This is all Bush's fault anyway.
A. Bunker| 3.8.09 @ 2:37PM
Jeremiah is right. Obama really is the "biggest hole in history." Never has there been a more corrupt politician, ever, not in the entire history of our country.
In fact, Jeremiah doesn't go near far enough.
Obama is the most evil person that ever lived. If you don't see that, it's because you're a liberal traitor and should probably be shot.
Then again, the lib media has brainwashed all you all, and you don't even see Obama is a Nazi and Nanci Pelosi is Hitler. There probably stringing up the barbed wire on Alcatraz now to turn it into the first Obama concentration camp.
See, pretty soon they're going to start chuffing all the conservatives off to camps in cattle cars, these traitorous nazis.
Don't say we didn't warn you. They all think this country is so imperfect they're willing to pal around with terrorists now how does that make you feel, communist.
CH| 3.8.09 @ 3:17PM
Bunker, back away from the keyboard and take a deep breath. Surely your meds are within reach, right? Take several, and then take several more.
A. Bunker| 3.8.09 @ 3:30PM
CH --
Does "CH" stand for Communist Hottentot?
Or Crooked Huckster?
Either way, lib, you don't fool me, and you and the rest of the Obamabots had better get used to it. Your war against capitalism is a war against liberty and freedom, but you traitors aren't going to get away with it.
A. Bunker| 3.8.09 @ 3:33PM
See, a war against liberty is a war against freedom. Freedom is what the evil doers are fighting against, and so are we.
You have to have a willingness to make that decision going forward with your eyes open. If you don't, the terrorists win. Obama's a socialist, he's trying to institutionalize socialism.
Freedom isn't free. That means you have to pay for it. They don't just give it to you.
What Obama's trying to do now is destroy the country.
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whiterb| 3.8.09 @ 5:30PM
O'Stalin I would not bet money against your posting until I checked it out for sure. Is this not the silver lining, as we the opposition stand on the sidelines, and watch the dems at the wheel of all their brandy new, shiny cars driving around as we walk around with holes in our shoes ? I mean they are driving nowhere but to their own little demolition derby. Of course, they'll do alot of damage before it ends. If, it ever ends.
CH| 3.8.09 @ 5:47PM
I'm on your side, Bunker, and I ain't no stinkin' liberal/commie. It's just that your florid prose scares me a little; not sure if you're a liberal troll trying to stir up trouble.
dennisl59| 3.8.09 @ 10:21PM
Not Government for the People, it's Government vs. the People. (I've been out of work now for 5 months, since September 12th, when things really truly started to hit the fan (The Paulson Testimony). Sending resumes' and watching CNBC, etc.;59yo.wm.) IMHO, it's getting worse day by day, week by week. The Banking situation is totally, utterly and completely FUBAR, add GM and what do you have?.
Draw your own conclusions Citizens.
Gregor | 3.9.09 @ 12:01AM
Crazy people who are not reality based now ascribe an intention to the Obama team--that they wish to tank the economy and markets in order to ensure DEM party dreams and control for many years to come. But damn, if team Obama isn't doing a pretty good job of fanning those projected fears with this bizarre absence of rigor, and planning. At Treasury.
Matt| 3.9.09 @ 1:22AM
Obama's favorables are tanking, guess his fiscal strategy's not workin'.
jack| 3.9.09 @ 6:13AM
where are all the famous capitalists who supported this mad socialist tyrant? Buffett,Immelt,Cramer,Kass? Why isnt someone advising him? His Chief of Staff is a corrupt political hack who nothing of business or markets. His entire cabinet is people who have spent their entire life at the federal tat.
Obama has never had a real job. He has no idea how to manage people or lead. He spent so little time in the senate he has no idea how legislation is crafted. He also appears to have little knowledge of US History,world history or economics. He sure can read a nice speech. Hope the media and oprah are happy at the human misery they have unleashed on the US.
The scariest thing about this imbecile is his obsession with the past. His treatment of Great Britian and Brown last week was disgracefull. I thought we were moving beyond race? We trash our greatest ally because of their treatment of people of color from 100 years ago? Someone tell Obama they didnt treat the lower class or US colonies much better. Rev Wright is president.
WhoisRight| 3.9.09 @ 10:22AM
Jack! You are correct. In addition many of his previous advisors seem to be bailing out.
WhoisRight| 3.9.09 @ 10:31AM
Check out great summary of Credit Crisis. Excellent piece. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/milo_yiannopoulos/blog/2009/03/09/this_is_the_best_explanation_of_the_credit_crunch_you_will_ever_see
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