Top 10 bad omens of the Geithner nomination
It looks increasingly like the GOP is going to ignore the bad signs and capitulate on Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee.
Tom Blumer lists the top 10 disturbing aspects of the Geithner nomination.
Do not say, 6 months or a year from now, that you were not warned, GOP.
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I needed only one, If you can’t handle your own taxes you should not be running the IRS.
Although its a built in excuse at audits I guess. “Well I did as good a job as your boss”
Are any members of the GOP not genuflecting right now?
The GOP should not deny this degenaerate the position. We do not want Obama to come back after the economy really melts down and claim his guy wasn’t seated. His responsibility all the way…Just sayin’
This could mark the downfall of senate republicans who approve him if they run in 2010. This tax cheating problem will not go away with those of us still paying taxes. Even Mitt Romney said it was “trivial” – Republican talking points maybe?
Obama showed his contempt for us by selecting and keeping him in this role. For conservatives to make a come back, we must first go after these RINOs.
Very few.
His nomination is “too important to fail”
“GET YOUR KNEEPADS HERE FOLKS– YOUR OFFICAL GOP KNEEPADS” !!!!
Who was it around here that suggested a new party? The Federalist party? I’m in. ‘Cause the GOP is certainly showing with each passing day that they not only don’t care about about the members of the party, they also don’t care about the fate of the nation.
Done with the GOP.
*this post brought to you precoffee, please excuse my rambling nonsense.
“So they all rolled over and one fell out…”
i love it, the man in charge of the treasury and irs won’t pay his taxes, and the guy who is chairman of the ways and means committee which writes the tax law won’t pay his tax, but you and i had better pay our taxes, because it is our patriotic duty to bail these tax dodgers out.
I do not know why you guys are so upset about Tim Geithner. He looks like a very nice fellow. I think I saw him on a commercial last night for one of those outfits that go to bat for you at the IRS. He said “I owed over $34000 to the IRS but Big Louie Goldfarb got them to settle for $73.87. Big Louie is the best”. For goodness sakes, it’s just the IRS, it’s not like he is dishonest or something. It is just business not personal. I am sure he cares about Michelle’s children.
Senator Schumer just quoted the Onion! This hearing is a joke!
Someone again tell me why we’re not tossing these RINOs out of our party?
Geithner is a big mistake for Treasury Sec, to be sure. But should he be approved, I still think Republicans could use Geithner’s past effectively against the Obama administration in marginalizing or even halting some of their more obscene spending proposals and future cabinet picks.
So maybe in the end, a T-Sec Geithner it wouldn’t be such a negative thing. Jus’ sayin’
Because John “Landslide” McCain says the important thing is to restore the people’s faith in government… and the best way to restore faith in government is for both parties to work together to make sure the Treasury and the IRS are run by an admitted tax evader.
Once they have restored faith in government, John McCain, the RINO wing of the GOP, and the Obama administration will work together with Democrats in congress to restore the public’s faith in used car salesmen, mainstream media journalism, and Nigerian email scams.
They need to hold all appointments in check for as long as possible. The GOP by itself is unlikely to derail any nominations anyway, so why not at least stake out a position to be able to say, “I told you so”.
Do these guys ever think strategy? C’mon, in 2 to 4 years the public will be looking to put grown ups in charge.
All I can see now are Republican butts.
GEEES!
What is a Republican but a Democrat in conservative clothing?
There once lived a self-ordained king
Who promised us a staff that was clean
But Geithner owed tax
And lied about facts
Said Republicans:”Let’s not cause a scene.”
Geithner keeps talking and the market keeps dropping. He’s being questioned by the Senate Finance Committee on C-SPAN2 right now and after an early rise in the market, it’s steadily dropped to break even since he’s been running his yap.
On January 21st, 2009 at 11:05 am, chapoutier said:
Ok, if you wrote that in earnest you are officially no longer a liberal. Congratulations.
We are on a slippery slope to oblivion.
If there isn’t something done to rally conservatives there is nothing to stop the total destruction of our country. It is inevitable.
Many will stop voting because we have no one to vote for, but the new wave of voters that are now flexing their muscles will continue to vote and be the decisive voters. These voters vote DEMOCRAT/SOCIALIST.
How long will it be before we are taken over by Islam/Muslims or Communists/Socialists? Has it already happened?
Not seeing a live thread of this Geithner hearing, well, having used turbo-tax in 2001, I have first hand knowledge of the prompt for payroll taxes and amounts.
Geithner just made a ‘miss-recollection’ at best, and at worst, well …..
Any good patriotic American should be able to mock their leader, whether they support them or not. And this is actually a time when I do think Obama is absolutely wrong.
But I decided to try my hand at some other poems last night.
Unfortunately my poetic talents extend only to simple limericks.
Any good patriotic American should be able to mock their leader*
* Does not apply to barak obama you hate filled racist.
Good one, Chap!
When the pundits say this man is too important not to confirm or he is indispensable, that’s when you start questioning and worrying.
When you hear the salesman say that this is a take it or leave it deal and you must decide right now, it’s usually best to pass.
No one is indispensable!
As Bill Bennett noted this morning, it isn’t as if Team Obama couldn’t find a substitute as good or better, and without the ethics problems, if Geithner got the boot.
BTW, blame the Republicans as much as you want, but even if there weren’t RINOs and aisle crossing “moderates”, they couldn’t stop this short of a filibuster, and with 41 Republican Senators (including the RINOs) it would be hard to sustain the filibuster. Before Franken is seated, it takes 2 defectors for a cluture vote to pass, when he takes his stolen seat, a single defector kills the filibuster. Unless the DWI Killer does go for the Great Aquatic Buick Ride in the sky, until his seat is filled. But I digress.
The most we can hope for is the Republicans ask enough tough questions that the embarrasment forces The Annointed One to yank his nomination,
If Obama wants to set the right tone, he will yank this nomination. We’ll see.
BTW, I paid self employment taxes for almost five years. They are due quarterly.
There is a reason the government prefers payroll deduction. Makes it seem less painful.
And I really have met people excited about getting a refund in the Spring, not realizing it means they overpaid, or gave the IRS an interest free loan.
The GOP should make a stink, even if they can’t actually block it. If BHO is forced to withdraw Geithner ala Richardson over ethics, it will interrupt the momentum of the socialist Annointed One.
LOL! Right back at you! In case you hadn’t noticed the GOP lost the election. Thanks for the kind words that helped out…
On January 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am, twofoot said:
Some moonbat who wants to keep Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the like in power from here-on-in.
On January 21st, 2009 at 10:44 am, Socky said:
Move to Arizona, declare residency, hit everyone here and your buddies over at KOS and DU up for money and run against him. That should restore peoples faith.
Someone tell me, where did the idea come from that if you lose elections you can still run the show? Where did the idea that winning elections wasn’t necessary in a representational democracy?
We are arguing about who to toss overboard when the ship is sinking.
Can anyone tell me why employers hiring illegals should pay any taxes at all?
Per Roberts, just give all the crooked employers an amnesty too!
I dont think those are going to be as big of a seller as you think they are – too many in the GOP already have calluses built-up
Geithner lied, the tax code died!
(One can hope…)
#11: lOgJAm thinks highly of him.
This is an appropriate epitaph to put on the gravestone of the modern Republican Party. This has been their behavior during my entire lifetime. In my book, Bluedog Democrats hold more favor than does the average Republican. Any legitimate Republican leader with character can expect to be marginalized by his own party. I am appalled.
Republicans can’t use it if they approve him knowing that he is a tax cheat.
Yes, but only IF, and there is always an IF, the Republicans oppose the man. Get along, go along and the Republicans bought that little farm. When we were defending Roberts and Alito against Democratic Party smears by comparing their records to Ruth Bader Ginsburg the throw in face always was “but the Republican leadership agreed to Ruth Bader Ginsburg”.
Geithner is a big mistake and the Republican leadership and Senators better say so. We lost an election but the fight goes on, as Bill Grant and friends reminded us for the last eight years. If the ship is indeed sinking it would be Liberals I will try to throw overboard.
…. just in – per ‘The commisar-elect of the treasury’ … ‘The proposed stimulus tax cuts are to be a permanent going forward’
WELFARE PROGRAM IT IS!
Just an oversight!
But wait a second… can’t senators or their staff access google, this takes all of 15 seconds to find:
“At the end of the tax allowance form were the words, “I hereby certify that all the information contained herein is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and that I will pay the taxes for which I have received tax allowance payments from the Fund.” Geithner signed the form. He accepted the allowance payment. He didn’t pay the tax. For several years in a row.”
But it is the Age of Obama. “Nothing to see here folks, move along.”
“What are you some sort of right-wing nut, causing trouble?”
“Sorry sir! I’m genuflecting now!”
Don’t you just wish somebody would grow a pair on Capitol Hill? Are we in so much trouble or what? Sheesh!
I watched the Inaugural luncheon, until they cut the cameras, and Geithner was front and center, closer than Hillary, closer than Algore, closer than just about everybody else to the Presidential table. This “body language” tells me they want him included, for some undisclosed reason.
Obama says all kinds of things to make people think he’s whatever they want him to be, but he proceeds to do what he wants, even if it differs from what he said, and nobody calls him on it. How long can that last? You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Does anybody really think BHO didn’t know all about this “trivial and honest mistake” well before the official announcement of Geithner’s nomination?
I’d bet the ranch that the conversation went like this:
BHO: “Tim! Dude! How’d you like the keys to the Treasure.. Uh, Treasury?”
TG: “Barry! My Man! That would be, like, totally AWESOME! You know I’ve got that tax thing though.”
BHO: “Hey! I’m The One. The Man! If I say you’re the pick, you’re the pick dude!”
TG: “What about the publicity? Won’t that be a problem?”
BHO: “For who? Dude, I have all those fat a$$es in Washington in my camp, one way or the other, wink wink.”
TG: “What about the public? Won’t they be upset?”
BHO: “DUDE! You know they love me! Most of those morons think I walk on water! Really! The rest? Well, who cares man? We got ours, right? And this is just the beginning! Dud, time we are finished, we are going to be rii-IIICH!”
TG: “Well cool man! How soon can we start the money flowing? I got expenses, you know?”
BHO: “No sweat man. You just keep your head down, keep your mouth closed and deny, deny, deny. If somebody says you had eggs for breakfast, you deny it, you hear?”
TG: “Ok Barry. Cool. See you in DC!”
Politics aside, I’ve done the impossible:
“You just can’t do it” they cried
But I’ll never know ’till I’ve tried
To write a limerick clean;
In no way obscene
With the word Nantucket inside.
Nice little finish to that Geithner hearing. Earlier when Bunning was pointing out that the chair of the committee was NOT allowing witnesses of Geithners tax issues to be questioned, the chair simply said it did not matter. Now at the end of this hearing, it is clear that the accountant that Geithner hired was either incompetant and never asked about that IMF job, or Geithner hid information regarding his job from the acountant, or that both he and the accountant agreed to simply wait for the IRS to catch and audit his earlier incorrect tax forms.
So, now with this hearing completed, in an incomplete manner, will this committee force this nomination to a full vote?
Chicago style corruption meets corruption, New York style!
That PK is for the generations to come! Salute the dude and other fine poets here on Michelle Malkin dot com.
I’m not going to hold my breath for the GOP to stop or postpone it, but it wold be nice.
Don’t pay your taxes and see how that works for you, it probably won’t be considered a “trivial matter”.
Sorry Bob, I owe my allegience to the nation. Not to a political party. The Republican party has for years shown that they no longer care about standing on principle. Democrat-lite, anything to get elected.
They have been allowed to do this because of people like you who will continue to vote for them just because they have an ‘R’ after their name. Not me, not anymore. I could not care less about the Republican party anymore.
As for me, as always, I am an American first. If a candidate that happens to have an ‘R’ after his name is asking for my vote while at the same time ignoring the ideas this nation was founded on, then guess what? That candidate will not get my vote. For to many years we have been content to vote for the lesser of two evils. All the while ignoring the basic logic that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for an evil!
No more! Never again will I vote for a candidate from any party if I do not believe they are sincere in their desire for what is best for the country as opposed to the party. That’s what got us into this mess in the first place.
If that makes me a moonbat… Well, again I ask, doesn’t it strike anyone else as odd that the only thing a person has to do today to be considered a moonbat is to echo the same words and ideas as the founding fathers?
By the way, I would say that blind allegience to a party-any party-is what makes a person a moonbat. So you may want to take a look in the mirror.
Sorry Bill, I owe my allegience to the nation. Not to a political party. The Republican party has for years shown that they no longer care about standing on principle. Democrat-lite, anything to get elected.
They have been allowed to do this because of people like you who will continue to vote for them just because they have an ‘R’ after their name. Not me, not anymore. I could not care less about the Republican party anymore.
As for me, as always, I am an American first. If a candidate that happens to have an ‘R’ after his name is asking for my vote while at the same time ignoring the ideas this nation was founded on, then guess what? That candidate will not get my vote. For to many years we have been content to vote for the lesser of two evils. All the while ignoring the basic logic that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for an evil!
No more! Never again will I vote for a candidate from any party if I do not believe they are sincere in their desire for what is best for the country as opposed to the party. That’s what got us into this mess in the first place.
If that makes me a moonbat… Well, again I ask, doesn’t it strike anyone else as odd that the only thing a person has to do today to be considered a moonbat is to echo the same words and ideas as the founding fathers?
By the way, I would say that blind allegience to a party-any party-is what makes a person a moonbat. So you may want to take a look in the mirror.
Apologies for the screwed up post the first time. Seems my anger is getting the better of me as I watch politicians destroy my country.
twofoot, well said.
Okay .. so ‘us’ meaning everyone but irresponsible people like Geithner and BHO himself who irresponsibly appointed him?
“What is required of us now is to suffer new depths of even more government irresponsibility.”
fixed…
Wesley Snipes.
Juan Hernandez McCain is on the Senate floor telling us we have to support Gaitner and get over partisan bickering. He is one useless piece of leftover flotsam.
The deduction Geithner took for the summer camp cost as child care expense is EXPRESSLY forbidden in the IRS tax code. It is out and out tax fraud!
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p503.pdf
If an IRS agent was caught using that deduction on their own return they would be summarily FIRED on the spot!
Total farce ! All these hearings are smoke and mirrors and a waste of time and taxpayers money, but hey what else is new. Thay are all gonna be place without any problems. What I want to know did Geithner get fined or have to pay a penalty like the rest of us. Be it that we would be in the slammer and all our worldly possession taken by the IRS. A wolf in sheeps clothing. Well folks expect now that wrong is right and right is wrong senario. So much double talk going on I am afraid that the new status quo of wrong is right will ruin this country.
On January 21st, 2009 at 3:01 pm, twofoot said:
The implication is that I am loyal to the Republicans rather than the USA. If you are so loyal to the United states how could you roll over and let it be handed over to the Obamamessiah?
The republican party is made up of people and people are imperfect. Further, someone who shares your world view wouldn’t stand a chance of getting elected in certain areas of the USA. What does that mean Mr.Rocket scientist? Do we turn our back on the Republican party because it has “RINO”s like Norm Coleman thereby electing creeps like Al Frankin? Do we insist on the second coming of Goldwater for every state and if we don’t get it (and we wont) do we hold the entire party responsible because someone in Rhode Island wasn’t conservative enough for you out in wherever?
You don’t know the first thing about ME you moralizing half-wit. I got off my ass and gave money and time to help elect the most conservative candidate through the primaries that I could. When that failed I got behind the last best hope to keep Obama out while crybabies like you stayed home because they were not going to vote for the “lesser of 2 evils”. Congratulations, you got the greater of 2 evils. Thanks for that. You can save your lectures about caring for the country any time now.
Sure, lots of Americans helped to elect Obama. I just happen to think that they aren’t very good Americans.
Which founding father said it was a good idea to let the perfect be the enemy of the good? Which one had the “shoot yourself in the foot by helping people who resent the USA to get elected and stay in office” speech that you are quoting from?
I would say that tossing your vote away on someone who stands no chance what so ever when it might do a little bit of good in preventing someone who is a genuine threat to the USA from taking office makes you a moonbat, and certainly not in a position to be lecturing me or anyone else about your allegiance to the USA.
Michelle, you’re now part of the right-wing “noise machine”, according to this liberal blog in my area. He’s worried that Republicans will “obstruct” legislation. If only…unfortunately he doesn’t know the beltway GOP as well as he thinks.
Ditto. I’ll type slow, just for you. Apparently you missed the part where I said, “never again“. Did I stay home on election day? Nope, I was actually on the road between Phoenix and L.A. when good old Juan McCain conceded. Which is why I made certain to cast my vote for Gov Palin when I was home the week before. So don’t try and act self-rightous.
When conservatives are the exception and not the rule, the party has shown it no longer cares to have my vote. So why should I oblige them with it? I will not vote Democrat-lite any longer.
If you chose to abandon whatever principles brought you to the Repulican party, that’s your choice. But when the party itself abandons the principles it was founded on then they obviously no longer need me or my money.
On January 21st, 2009 at 6:21 pm, twofeetinhismouth said:
Good, you can keep an eye on your spelling.
Apparently you missed the part where I
saidwrote “crybabies like you.” Over 4 million Bush voters stayed home last 4 November. That’s not including those who flushed their votes on the moonbat and truther parties.Run for office. Get elected as a conservative. Be my guest. Could it be that conservatives are the exception and not the rule because they are not winning elections? TRUST ME, I would love it if they were but people have identified “conservative” with “Bush” and therefore “screw-up”. Wouldn’t our best bet be not to elect screw ups? The party makeup is what it is not because the RNC is deciding who should run and who can’t. It is what it is because that is who is winning in their region. Your problem isn’t with the RNC it is with the voters and the people who have helped to shape their opinions.
Hopefully you wont have to, but if the choice is something less than 100% or Obama? Where are YOU going to draw the line? President Ayres?
My choice was make the best with what I had. My answer was to elect the old fool and try to keep his feet to the fire. To that end I donated time and money and argued til blue and I lost. Now I see the same people who helped bring this mess about, and it will be a mess, setting up a situation that will bring about a bigger, more entrenched mess. Conservatism divorced from the republican party doesn’t stand a chance and the republican party can’t afford to lose conservatives. Splitting 1 from the other will just entrench the democrats. I believe a lot of people who are advocating that are fully aware of the fact too.
Obama won by 7.5 million, so probably wouldn’t have mattered.
But keep fighting the good fight, Bill. I love reading your posts.
From the linked article:
The finacial inbreeding among our corporate, political and media elites is producing profoundly disturbing mutants. Nice to see The Obama and Joe The Biden are content to continue on this path of social destruction.
Paulson and Geithner: Turning Capitalism into Kaputalism since 2008.
Geithner’s President is Black.
If I failed to pay my taxes like this Will-o’-the-wisp, I be in da hooskow, even if I said the tax law was to confusing.
On January 21st, 2009 at 7:09 pm, chapoutier said:
Probably not. We were out campaigned, out spent, out pandered, out charisma-ed, boned by the press, blamed for the market crash and burnt out from Bush and still we came pretty close to getting the geezer in. What my over-caffeinated rants are about at this point are 2010 and 2012.
Thanks.