But who will block Geithner?
The Senate gave its approval to six Obama cabinet secretaries. Sen. John Cornyn is blocking Hillary Clinton.
My question is: Will any GOP Senator stand up to failout bailout serial tax evader Tim Geithner, or will they all do the lemming dance now and whine about how nobody could see his shortcomings later?
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that’s rhetorical right?
Expect the GOP to have balls? Puh-leeze.
How many Republicans are equally guilty of a tax “triviality”, I wonder?
No one. He is in. Clinton will also be in. Just more stuff we can slam them for later.
Get ready for it because tomorrow is when it starts getting REALLY rough.
I’m amazed. Is John Cornyn really listening to his constituents? I’ve received so many boilerplate response letters from him over the last couple years that they became a novelty. Most of the time I could guess which one was in the envelope.
I e-mailed the GOP and told them point blank I will have nothing to do with the party again if they allow that crook Geithner to be confirmed.
What Sen. Cornyn is doing is called token opposition. It looks good on fund raising letters. But in actuality it is meaningless.
A little weak on Senate procedure, but as far as the advise and consent thing, can 41 Republicans stop 58 Democrats from confirming whoever they darn want?
I have a pretty strong feeling all the Cornyn thing has done is prevent unanimous consent and will force a voice vote that won’t come close to being party line, maybe 80 for and 15 against.
I think it’s time for the current GOP “leaders” to get out of the way. As a GOP-leaning conservative (because I really have no other options), I wish the “old guard” would make way for new young conservatives. We need a fresh face on the party. One that is not afraid to ruffle feathers, stand up for what’s right, and does not feel like representation is an entitlement or a career. The McConnell’s, Lott’s, Cornyn’s, Alexander’s and many others only seem interested in having the titles and less about doing what’s right. They simply aren’t willing to fight anymore because of fear.
If they think they’ll get anything other than stepped on, marginalzied, and ignored by placating the new regime in DC, they are dead wrong and we need to get them out. 2010 is our next battle, perhaps even with “our own” party…
The GOP can filibuster but it takes all 41 of them. In other words, aint going to happen.
Surely, out of the 40-odd GOP senators, there are a couple vertebrates.
Guys, the GOP has been voted out of power. Period. There is very little that can be done till 2010. If we try to filibuster judges the nuclear option will be used.
Its the DNC’s show for now. And there are radicals in control of ever major congressional body and committee. There is now a radical leftist in the white house.
Protest all you want, we are out of it for at least 2 years.
Checked the interweb, Cornyn has held up Clinton by less than two days, he blocked a unanimous consent decree, she’ll go up for a voice vote, probably tomorrow.
Since Republicans railed against using the filibuster when the Dems used it to stop Republican judicial nominees, and since 2 RINOs defecting (just one when Al Franken takes his stolen seat) kills the fillibuster, the most Republicans can do is ask harsh questions.
Geithner will not be blocked unless the Senate Republicans do something they criticized then minority leader Reid for doing (although, in my opinion, paybacks should be a b*tch) and the minority caucus stands firm.
If they can’t convince more than a few Dems to vote against the tax dodger, it is a done deal.
It would be nice, but I don;t expect it.
#11 Sonofdy is right.
And see other thread about supposed “Blue Dog” or moderate Democrats in the House. The Donks have a sufficiently large margin in both Houses, even if the “Blue Dogs” objected to the most egregious legislation, and with the White House, have complete power except for being one SCOTUS justice short of absolute power, and the odds say one of five men (Kennedy, the coin toss vote, and the four Constitutionalists) aged 50s to 70s will die in the next four years.
Then nothing but their own belief in fair play and honesty (yeah, right) stops this country from becoming a permanent one party totalitarian state.
There will be long and painfull investigations into the bush years. There will be alot of extreme liberal agendas passed. They will blame everything on bush. All we can do is scream loud enough to try, and I mean TRY to be heard even a little bit.
We have NO effective representation in Washington DC. NONE. This will not change until at least 2010. The only way we will change this is to start now and start hammering back and hammer hard.
If you don’t like this, tough, because it is what it is. You can crawl up into a ball of misery or you can fight back. The biggest problem we had in 2008 was bush. Bush is GONE. We are not. So get up off of your butts as fight back.
We had no effective representation when the GOP was in power. Bush and the rest of the country club republicans sold their party’s brand and conservatives down the river in the name of “bipartisanship” thinking they could pick up the moderate vote. They made themselves no different than the dems, which is why they lost the conservative vote and got their a$$es kicked in the last two elections.
Time for a new party…
On the bright side, this will show that paying taxes is totally voluntary and, can’t be used against you…Right? , Right? crickets chirping…
Well, maybe the Supremes will ask for the big O’s birth certificate now, we have standing.
IMHO, anyone involved in the Treasury Department, SEC, Federal Reserve, banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, ratings agencies (did I leave out any other group of gangsters?), that has been around for the past 15 years should be permantly banned from having anything to do with our money.
However, I know this isn’t realistic. So, Mr.Geithner, you’re going to get this job anyway, despite ethical lapses that would get us ordinary
peonscitizens in big trouble with the agencies you are going to be running.Therefore, you have a short leash to make significant progress towards fixing the mess that you and your mind-numbingly incompetent cronies have created. (I’m not talking about bailing out the bloated whale carcasses of failed corporations or wrist slapping the grimy hands of serial ponzi scheme hucksters.)
If you think you have the mettle to address and solve these problems quickly, then get to it. Otherwise, get out of the way now because Americans no longer have the patience or tolerance for nefarious boobs.
Signed,
Joe the Citizen
I’m beginning to sound like a broken record…as long as there is a “D” by the name, none of this matters.
I’m still trying to come to grips with the idea that a man who claimed ignorance about paying his taxes is even being considered as the man in charge of advising the President on economic matters. Is the planet shaped like a cube now?
Obama’s Cube…Actually, a sphere…That way, he can’t be backed into a corner.
Maybe, they could lower alcohol taxes to make the next 4 years a little more palatable.
Is it just me or am I the only one that can think of, or Google, another 11 Federal Reserve Presidents?
None of them .
Republicans are useless. Not a penny more to RNC.
Filibuster wont happen. Too many RINOs in senate. Maine duo alone would doom it.
There is no way this guy should be confirmed and this argument that he is too important not to confirm is utter nonsense.
I vote Lemming Dance
Kent Conrad showed some huevos over the Generational Theft Act of 2009, that used up this months ration.
Hey! Those of you that voted to re-elect anyone: Thanks. Thanks a frelling bunch.
In a nation of three hundred million people, we have only one person capable of handling this position?
*This Geithner is so dirty even some Dems should be telling P-BO to put up someone else; Byron York has dug up the goods on this guy, who makes Al Capone look like a boy scout.
*The GOP Senators will do what McCain and his bum boy Grahamnesty tell them to do; Those two want to make sure P-BO has the most ethical cabinet ever like Nazi Pelosi has the most ethical Congress ever.
John McCain said he would have many of these same appointments, so what’s the big deal?
Time for a new party.
GOP-RIP
GOP should stand up if they want to have any power in congress…my fear is that they jsut want ot gwet re-elected from their seats and are comfortable-way too comfortable- being in minority status.
It looks that way. We will have to focus on replacing repubs first since they don’t want to fight the libs.
Kinda makes you wonder why he is considered more important than the law he is supposed to uphold and apply equally.
These old dogs don’t have any teeth to bite and even gave up barking ages ago. All they want to do is soak us for their big fat retirement. The ones who really give a $&%# have become an even smaller minority, with no real leadership. We see how the libs tear into anyone they see as a “real” threat. Look how they continue to treat Palin.
A better question is, “Who will block FOR Geithner?”
And isn’t Sec. Treas. fourth in line in Ascendancy to the Presidency?
I guess logic would dictate that if America can elect a flawed, unqualified man to the office of POTUS, then Geithner should not be disqualified for the position to which he has been nominated.
Reality check here: Geithner was the president of the NY Federal Reserve and his past connections put him smack dab in the center of the elite power structure. Nobody is going to screw with him – nobody screws with the Federal Reserve.
On January 20th, 2009 at 9:32 pm, Virginia Patriot said:
Good of you to stay on message. Thanks for Obama.
If you are actually anything resembling a conservative I predict after a couple of years of the disaster that we have elected that you will be willing to walk on broken glass to vote for anything that has a genuine chance of getting rid of him.
The GOP’s new sponsor
I’m not so defeatist. The D’s lost Congress in 1994 in large part because of the House Bank scandal. Millions of people who believed the D’s stood for the “little guy” understood that they couldn’t write checks unless they had the money in their accounts to cover them. There had been many other, often more egregious, abuses in the past, but the bank scandal was the tipping point. Everyone with a checking account could see D arrogance on display.
Geithner could do the same thing as the House Bank scandal. There’s nothing complicated about Geithner’s “troubles.” Every teenager who’s filed a 1040EZ for his minimum-wage, fast-food wages understands he can’t lie to the IRS without getting into big legal trouble.
I don’t know that the R’s can stop his confirmation, but they could sure make hay out of it. Lots of people’s eyes will glaze over in a discussion of the bailout or the economy or such, but they understand they can’t avoid paying taxes and get away with it.