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Senate Finance Committee Geithner vote 18-5: Meet your B.O. Republicans

By Michelle Malkin • January 22, 2009 03:33 PM

I’m in between flights home after a quick NYC trip. The Geithner Senate Finance Committee vote is over. He sailed through despite his “tax goofs” and legal “trivialities.”

I joked the other day about the capitulationists I’m now calling the “B.O. (Barack Obama/Bend Over) Republicans.”

Here they are:

Mr. Geithner’s abilities and credentials were never at issue, and even those conservative Republicans who differ with Mr. Geithner ideologically said they were glad to support him.

“I’m not sure he comes from where I come from, but he’s the president’s nominee,” said Senator Mike Crapo, Republican of Idaho.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said he was sure Mr. Geithner was “a person of great integrity, even though he’s made these mistakes,” an allusion to the back-taxes issue. Mr. Hatch praised Mr. Geithner as “non-ideological, which to me is very important.”

Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said he was “willing to give Mr. Geithner the benefit of the doubt” on his tax mistakes. But, he added pointedly, he was not willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the so-called “masters of the universe,” apparently meaning the once-mighty Wall Street figures who have borne much of the blame for the current economic troubles.

The other Republicans who endorsed Mr. Geithner were Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and John Ensign of Nevada.

And here are the GOP Senators who will be able to point back proudly to their votes when the B.O. Republicans start panicking in the wake of more Geithner-engineered failures:

The five senators who voted “no” are all Republicans: Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, Jon Kyl of Arizona, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Pat Roberts of Kansas and Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming.

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#600459

On January 23rd, 2009 at 9:52 am, iaguy2 said:

Hey! Grassley didn’t disappoint me for once.
#600516

On January 23rd, 2009 at 10:25 am, rplatt said:

Obama is now claiming that his planned extraordinary actions are necessary because of our “unprecedented economic times”. Wake up people and remember that “unprecedented economic times” also produced Lenin, Hitler, Castro, Chavez and other memorable totalitarian figures.
#602730

On January 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pm, By Choice said:

Reading thru here about every 5th comment questions paying taxes. I am of the mind that this “stimulus package” is taxation without representation and anti-constitutional BECAUSE it unfairly taxes the next several generations, including those yet unborn, who these politicians DO NOT represent. ERGO they cannot pass any taxes that will obligate future generations to exhorbitant lifetime taxes–numbers I have heard at anywhere from $110,000 to $400,000 for anyone born the day the package is passed and thereafter.

While paying taxes has been proved thru the courts to be constitutional via the 16th amend. taxation without representation IS still a defence against UNLAWFUL taxation as defined in the Declaration of Independence “Imposing taxes without our consent”, which they have already done when they passed the first bailout. (remember Feinstein stating that the calls she was received was 95% against passage?) I would never condone anyone not paying their taxes when due (sarc)but imagine the repurcussions if even 1,000,000 taxpayers sent tea bags instead of a check on April 15th.

Personally, with the down turn in the economy and our business tied to construction, paying taxes is the least of our worries–we’re struggling to keep a roof over our heads and our employees working. Besides, I will claim I used Turbo Tax and missed the red flag……….
#602736

On January 26th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, Vntnrse said:

I’m really tempted to send all of the “no” voters $5 and then write to and tell all of the yes voters what I’ve done and why.
#602840

On January 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

Hey, hey, there’s a silver lining to every cloud…

Now I can exchange my unopened TurboTax 2008 for a copy of Guitar Hero: Metallica… and fiddle while Washington burns…