Newsflash: Wonderboy Treasury Secretary is in over his head
They said he was uniquely qualified. A wunderkind. The Man with the Plan. Too big to fail.
Now we learn from the on-the-ball MSM that tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is flailing about and in over his head.
Who’s shocked?
For five weeks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has battled the worst economic crisis in generations with no key deputies in place. That’s made for a rocky debut for the man President Barack Obama put in charge of addressing the financial crisis.
With an awkward first television appearance, a bank rescue plan that lacked promised specifics and two restructured bailouts that raised taxpayer risk, Geithner has failed to calm financial markets desperate for answers.
Critics say part of the problem is that Geithner is flying solo: Not one of his top 17 deputies has been named, let alone confirmed. And without senior leadership, lower-level Treasury employees can’t make decisions or represent the government in crucial conversations with banks and others.
As Geithner strives to address the financial crisis, advance Obama’s agenda and work with foreign leaders to stave off economic disaster, he’s assembled a 50-person “shadow cabinet” of would-be appointees. Those people have received hall passes and can advise Geithner, but they lack any authority.
“Everyone would think it’s a travesty if the Defense Department didn’t have a lot of their people in place, because you’re in a crisis fighting a couple of wars,” said Tony Fratto, who was a Treasury spokesman under President George W. Bush. “But Tim Geithner is fighting wars on a few fronts himself, and he doesn’t have the generals there to help him.”
So, he’s chasing after international tax avoiders by himself.
And now, the tax cheat is assailing oil and gas companies for taking advantage of tax loopholes. No wonder he can’t get anyone to staff up underneath him. Everything he does is a punchline:
U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.
It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.
“We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don’t think that’s good economic policy and we think changing those incentives is good for the country,” Geithner told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on the White House’s proposed budget for the 2010 spending year.
The Obama administration’s budget would levy an excise tax on oil and natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, raising $5.3 billion in revenue from 2011 to 2019.
This new 13 percent tax on all oil and gas production in the Gulf would only affect those companies enjoying a loophole that allows them to avoid paying royalties on the energy supplies they drill
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Update: The NYPost editorial board chuckles:
here was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel’s Ways & Means Committee – promising that the Obama administration intends to propose “a series of legislative and enforcement measures to reduce . . . tax evasion and avoidance.”
Did he look Chairman Rangel in the eye when he said this?
Can he look himself in the eye at the shaving mirror each morning?
A crackdown on “tax evasion and avoidance”? Oh, the irony.
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Whose fault is it that he can’t get any senior people hired?
Just the beginning of four years of lame excuses for failing policies.
I thought Obama had 3000 advisers (or was that 300) ready at his fingertips awaiting every text with The Answer. Nobel prize winners, tax cheats, bomb-throwing terrorists, you name ‘em – all there to help.
Heard on a little top of the hour newsblurb yesterday that the administration will be going after tax cheats. And now the tax cheat in chief is in over his head?
Swine. Every one of them.
The only conclusion that one can reach as one observes what the Obama Administration is doing is that they INTENTIONALLY are seeking to destroy the American economy and replace it with a Socialist/Fascist State. How else can one explain Obama’s complete ignorance of the tanking of the stock market, Geithner’s blatent attack on petroleum companies (HELLOOOOO???? Doesn’t the economy of the US run on oil?), the Administration’s Nazi-esque attack on Rush Limbaugh (a private citizen), the Administration’s ignorant and dangerous foreign policy regarding Russia, Iran, and Israel?
Obama and his minions may be many things, but they aren’t stupid. These people need to be stopped NOW!
Only 1,418 days to go.
Let’s all hang in there as best we can.
Praying will help.
You mean that degree in Asian Studies isn’t helping him save the financial world?
Yep.
Double yep.
dfern
Spot on. This Administration is dead set on ruining this country. The lame stream media is in the tank–to their ultimate detriment. May God watch over our nation.
dfern is 100% right.
The problem is, by the time everyone realizes what’s happening it will be too late.
Pundits and critics laugh at Obabma and his crew, thinking that they are all incompetent. WRONG! They know EXACTLY what they are doing. They are executing the plan, step by step.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!
When desperate and even the left-leaning MSM is laughing at you… attack “Big Oil” and drop the green bomb.
The playbook is so obvious at this point, it’s sad.
We heard from the “office” of the president-elect for 2 months before the inauguration. Why can’t Geithner find 17 lieutenants? Even if he had them, he clearly doesn’t have any answers. If the chief is lost, how would these guys save him? (And even if one of them did, he would be proving that he’s more qualified than his boss.)
What is shocking is that this appears in the AP.
I don’t know. Maybe all of you are right–this administration may know exactly what they are doing. But I get the feeling that they are trying to change so much in such a short amount of time that they are making a mess of their change. That could result in chaos but maybe not what they had in mind.
Jacking up energy prices is one of the best was to further stagnate the economy and get hyper inflation off and running.
He and his boss would make Ted Mack proud.
Geithner is finding it difficult to hire qualified “yes men”, with skills, other than a$$ kissing.
The IRS, under the US Department of the Treasury, has a national unit called the “Taxpayer Advocate.” Just wondering when she/he will, you know, Advocate for us Taxpayers.
I hope he fails too.
The sooner the better. He’s as painful as duh1.
Cooking the books is just a little more difficult than usual.
He is a joke. Uniquely qualified? Absolutely. Not just anyone could prove himself incapable in such a short time. But being a tax cheat didn’t keep Geithner from getting the Treasury job, what are the odds being clueless will cause him to lose it?
Instead of plotting to get more tax revenue out of smart, honest, hard-working taxpayers who manage to legally minimize their tax burden, he should be going after his own kind…the tax cheats. But of course he won’t.
Regarding energy policy (and related tax policies), the left knows they don’t need to worry…they can just call “joe-4-oil”!!!
Obviously much better at avoiding taxes than getting people to pay them.
O/T, via Ace, but it appears that Ann Coulter has some good stuff on Keith Olberman’s “Ivy League Cornell” education.
Interesting term LOOPHOLES; just what is a loophole, just what deductions and deferments are indeed loopholes? Obama has staff that considers your IRA, Roth and 401 plans loopholes and should be back taxed or even swapped out for Social Security bonds.
Many consider Home Interest payments a loophole, charitable contributions, medical expenses, Child tax credit-all someone’s loophole.
When you hear the term LOOPHOLE think-TAX INCREASE. Of course if we had a flat tax it would be irrelevant but DC and the thugs at the IRS would lose power and companies and people could make more rational decisions on how to invest and save-can’t have that can we? Those evil oil companies pay BILLIONS in taxes driving up the cost of energy. In 2008 Exxon paid more than $29 BILLION in taxes. Exxon provides useful products and services, Tim Geithner is Wondering “Boy- what have I got myself into?!
Close loopholes? Local story from 1976
Yes indeed Praying will help as will
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
The market will bottom at 3000 and 40 per cent of the banks operating now will cave altogether with no government bailout.
Perfect. Free market will work its magic as lilbHo goes belly up crowing his campaign speech and Afghanistan slaps his skull.
First 100 days: disaster. Money printing presses stop, foreign bond holders and t-bill afficianados flee to precious metals. I get richer and the Federal Government goes broke.
Brakes screech. Pelosi Galore doesnt get paid. Junkets stop. Air Force One has to park.
Fed gets audited as the government eats whomever and whatever it can so they can run for re-elections.
These dumb asses in DC are not smart enough to take a country down. Our enemies will hit us soon.
lilbHo is in disarray. The marines dont even cheer him.
They can smell a rat. Look at him. He’s gaining weight from all that booze “sipping” and fancy meat.
And people believed in this? Nice. What are u gonna tell your kids.
I tell mine: I didnt vote for him or the Clinton gang to loot the treasury and sell us out to our enemies.
If this is an intelligent plan, my ass is a fondue pot.
Bear1909 out.
PS: Even Soros is afraid.
These people are not only incompetent, they’re a frapping laugh riot! Of course Geithner isn’t going to find tax cheats, he’s looking on the wrong side of the aisle. Tim: Toss a dead cat in Al Sharpton’s direction, you’re bound to hit half a dozen tax cheats.
Gawd – even a blind dog can find a bone.
And that “Global Warming” excuse! Laugh riot! After the daily embarrassments the ‘glowarmers’ are making of themselves someone is actually arrogant enough and stupid enough to use the fully disproved AWG lie as an excuse for something! Now I know where to go if I find my snake needs oiling.
Note to Keith Olberman: Like the fact that the Master lock on my foot locker didn’t make me a Master Sergeant, the yale lock on your gym locker (contents: tutu, toe shoes, talcum powder) doesn’t give you a Yale education… and that cornell red sweatshirt doesn’t do it either.
This is the most suicidal agenda I’ve ever witnessed. Mind-numbing in its audacity and complete stupidity.
This nation is in a train plummeting off a cliff and the Administration is yelling “Faster! Faster!”
Almost as if the President has no experience himself. Nah, that couldn’t be. He was a Community Organizer!
No sympathy at all…. “But give him a chance RS, he’s new”
My bad. Who campaigned on the platform of ‘Ready to lead on Day 1′ and ‘Who are you going to call at 3AM’?
When you’re ready to lead on Day 1 you have all your ducks in a row ON DAY 1. You cant use the excuse “Its Bushes fault” because you campaigned THAT YOU ARE THE MAN.
Even in my piddly little job, it takes 6 months to figure out what the @%$# Im doing. And Im not trying to change the world or declaring that I know more than everyone else. (I guess Obamas daddy didnt run the CIA or was president or that his VP ran a multi-national corporation…. oooooooopppppppssssss.)
Who’s your #1 man?? Some jack-a-whore from Chicago?
It’s looking more and more like theObama Mis-Administration may not last for four years. This “would be Caesar” and his cohorts (or partners in crime, you choose) are flailing and fiddling around while Rome burns.
This “off the charts smart” Obama, is showing that he is really not that cerebral after all. Those who have proclaimed him as such, need to learn the difference between intelligent and conniving. One doesn’t need brains to be deceptive. His actions, and selections for his cabinet/czar positions are proving his unpreparedness for the office he holds.
Does he seriously believe this statement? The taxes will be passed onto the consumers at the pump which will lead to more COngressional inquiries into price gouging, which will lead to higher taxes, which will get passed onto the consumer, which will lead to more Congressional inquiries into price gouging…..
Here is just more proof that the Liberals have no idea how economics work.
When in trouble, redirect the attention to an “enemy” (oil companies and global warming). That’s always been a favorite tactic. Like the 30s, the reason the economy is continuing to fail is because investors and those with money are keeping it. To invest now, with the government is such disarray, is foolish. Lord knows what new regulation, tax hike, or “economic plan” will come out tomorrow or next week. With stagnation and a confused stock market, companies will have to lay off workers to stay even. Enter price fixing and more bailouts. It’s the ’30s all over again, because the government, in its greed for power, and a dumbed down public didn’t learn the first time.
One only has to step back and with a cold unprejudiced eye look at all the inconsistencies to see the the administration is flailing around with no firm guidance. Just in the last 24 hours: BO – “I’m for line item veto”, and Congress defeats a line item veto bill; BO – “I want to revise the federal contract process” and Congress defeats a bill to do just that. BO “I’m for quality education for everyone” as Congress considers a bill to strip the voucher program so that the little ob’s don’t have to associate with the ‘po folks’ at their school. “All are equal, just some are more equal than others.”
Semper Fi
The putz is worrying about “Global Warming” while the financial markets are flaying about? No wonder Wall Street has no confidence in him. He is all over the map. Frack up over here, frack up over there. Which sector is next to be shanghaied?
In spite of the additional class warfare from the know nothing tax cheat, with the exception of the 15% “revenue” deduction – I’d have to say every other part of oil industry tax code works exactly the same as any other business. There really is no special treatment. For every “special” treatment which he thinks exists, I can show that it’s exactly the same as every other industry – including his precious financial industry.
Every congress critter who voted to confirm needs to be without job next time their “contract” comes up.
There is a pattern here – empty suit on top, empty head next. Though both have plenty of “worship”.
Why would anybody in the financial community with any sort of brain, and who hopes to have a future in finance, want anything to do with Geithner or this administration?
And Geithner’s attack on the oil companies is stunningly stupid, and yet, totally predictable.
Do you ever wonder if Obama set Geithner up to be his fall guy? For a guy running on his superior judgement he sure screwed this one up.
I’m becoming increasingly convinced the goal is NOT success – but rather power. If “they” can mess things up enough, “they” can declare whatever they want and a substantial portion of the sheep who are scared will go along with it. If things are good, they have no chance at power. Power is their god. This “indictment” is against the majority of government – of both major parties (and the “lesser” parties as well) at all levels.
I have to disagree with that, somewhat.
Having political “steet smarts” doesn’t translate into real intelligence.
I’m not going to go down the same road the “Bush is dumb” crowd did, because it’s not that cut and dry.
However, I have always thought that arrogance is a sign of, for lack of a better word, stupidity.
People who are really smart don’t need to be arrogant. People who are very smart and arrogant aren’t as smart as they think they are, because they would know their arrogance impedes the learning process and gives them a more narrow view.
See, if I was arrogant, I would realize what a crappy post this turned into, because I can’t explain this without going into a long, rambling post.
Maybe this administration should step back, go to Camp David for a 3-year weekend, take a deep breath, regroup, and come back for the last month of their term, then get out!
Great. So Geithner thinks higher energy costs will be good for the economy. In addition to the pain this will cause consumers, have the Dems considered what higher energy prices will do to what is left of manufacturing in this country? Most of these industries are energy intensive and already have to compete with third world countrties that have significanly lower labor costs, regulations and overhead. I doubt they will be implementing any global warming taxes any time soon and are probably already rolling out the welcome mats to more companies that will be fleeing this socialist nightmare. These carbon taxes will be another coffin nail for Amrican industry.
I lived several years in a third world country and, while very difficult, it was an interesting experience. I always told myself I would consider doing it again but never imagined I would be doing it here in the USA.
You’ll know they are serious when Obama grounds Air Force One.
I recognize hypocritical BS when I see it. Obama works for us, and it’s time to put the civil and the servant back in civil servant. We’ve let the help play King and Lords for far too long.
How can these “brightest and best” continually say the stupidest things? Do they realize how lame and idiotic they sound? The phrase “educated beyond his intelligence” comes to mind.
Obama and his team have destroyed trillions of wealth they wanted to tax since they took office. The DJIA is on pace to hit 5000 in a matter of weeks. And all they can do is explain how they are going to vastly increase spending and taxes and which industries they going to cripple with moronic, trendy policies.
I wonder if Peggy Noonan and her BFFs still hope Obama will govern as a centrist?
jsr – They may have thought about it, but it is irrelevant to them. As conservativesRus said, this is about power, not success.
No company in their right mind would expand operations in the USA at this point. The successful companies should be making plans to offshore as much as possible. Of course with Obama going after the cash companies keep offshore to avoid the highest combined federal/state taxes in the world, they may have to leave the USA altogether. That will do wonders for employment.
WarEagle82 said: #40
Well said!
Now, it must be hard to find 17 people who both know something about economics and banking and are willing to follow the path to failure as laid out by this white house group of fools.
I think Reagan said it best when he said:
You know it’s all Limbaugh/Steele/Palin’s fault that these deputies haven’t been appointed because they are behind the failed Bush economic policies of the last eight years and um, made the worst crisis since the Great Depression!
/lgm
And yet Obama/Geithner/Summers/Romer/Orszag have got stuff done. They produced the stimulus package, the budget, and TARP2. You may not like them, but they did get done.
Would you rather have lazy Bush with his perfectly knotted tie?
I would much rather they take a 3 and a half year vacation before they destroy the rest of the economy that Bush and his Liberal buddies in the Congress started to destroy with their (and the current administrations) Socialistic agenda.
lgm, you are simply hopeless. You may be a wonderful person, mean well, and be nice to animals, but you are simply hopeless.
Obama Admin = “Incompetence you can Believe in”.
We are screwed!!!!!!!!
Aloha Guy – Don’t make fun of his Asian Studies degree! That degree came in very handy when he was trying to hook up with those female Chinese exchange students!
Seriously, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE! Nothing infururiates me more than when libturds talk about climate change.
Fixed it!
I see he is recruiting for those open positions.
Are you counting down like I am?
Timmy boy has
no friggin’zero credibility… who’se going to take this punk seriously…He doesn’t even have to do much of the work:
http://www.macon.com/198/story/640079.html
ATLANTA — Nearly 10 percent of Georgia state legislators are late filing or paying their state taxes, and state Sen. Robert Brown is apparently among them.
Brown, D-Macon, said Wednesday he’s not sure whether he actually owes the state or federal government any money because he hasn’t filed tax returns. He said he’s gotten extensions, but he declined to give more information or say for what years he received filing extensions.
I may be wrong, but don’t you have to pay estimated taxes when filing an extension?
You seem to think that bankrupting the entire nation is a good thing???
At this point I am thinking carter would be better.
Thank goodness that this is the “most transparent administration in history” so we can watch all the flaming-out live in direct.
We can, can’t we?
MSM?
Hello?
Put down the Octomom copy and report the news…
Hello?
Boy I am glad we sent all that money to GM. We bought them a few months before they ended up bankrupt anyway. WAY worth the 25 billion…
Of course, power is their only goal.
Who will stop them? Not the Democrats in Congress they are getting everything they want. Not the supine, bootlicking media – he’s their guy.
The soonest they can be stopped in 2011 – and they will do a world of damage between now and then. They won – we’re screwed.
dfern was right when he said:
He has no real interest in creating a strong economy. The more things that he crashes, the better the excuse to grab power.
He is passing one huge bill every week, at least. The damage he can do to American freedom in 4 long years is immeasurable in my mind.
And we will never go back. Nobody is going to repeal the law that says the feds should keep a national database, and the medical profession doesn’t have enough of a spine to stand together and say “No!”
America was the last refuge of the proud and free, but we’ve lost. We’re being marginalized and minimized, our successes purposely undermined so the world can move toward a global system of government.
We were too busy fighting terrorists to fight socialists, and we lost our country.
Ohhhh, yeah…!
“for taking advantage of tax loopholes. ”
pls don’t call them loopholes. they are legitimate deductions authorized by the Congress. the oil and gas companies aren’t doing anything illegal
Granite – you are correct. One way to keep sane about the actions of Obama and his minions is to realize everything they do is about control and power, for them. It is disgusting to watch, but it becomes understandable. Success, freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility are not even in their universe of ideas.
I have said, and written at blogs, for the past 5 or so years that our domestic enemies are at least as dangerous as, and quite possibly more dangerous than, our foreign enemies.
I don’t think the battle is lost…yet.
In fact, I have faith that we will be victorious.
But, my gut tells me it’s going to get quite nasty.
Oh, and by the way, those terrorists are still watching us and liking what they see.
Agreed.
They are of the opposite worldview.
To them, only power, money, and sex matter.
And, when one thinks about it, power, sex, and money are really but different manifestations of the same thing…power. Amoral power.
Not to worry, it’s all Rush Limbaugh fault!
Well I just got laid off an hour ago, maybe I can apply for a position with Timmy boy.
While I don’t have any tax experience other than PAYING THEM – will I quality if I stop paying my taxes, bills and mortgage?
Just got off the phone with my son’s American Government teacher.
I bet she regretted calling me.
I suggested a couple exercises.
1.Pick any government policy and tell the students to find where in the Constitution the power exists. For example, government bail outs to private companies.
2. Discuss the 10th Amendment movement that is started in 16 states.
I’m sure she’ll immediately add those into the curriculum /sarc off
So how much longer are these government saviors going to keep telling us that they are going to do something? When are they going to do it?
But before you do, how about we discuss the details first. Oops! That wouldn’t make for a very good kabuki play.
In over his head??? Well that’s because his head is so far up his HINEY, he can’t see what he is doing… Anyone who saw his first PRESSER, knows he is in “over his head”… And, has anyone noticed how much “PLAY” this administration is giving to “CLIMATE CHANGE”??? People, we had better get our HEADS OUT, and fast… These WACKOS are following the GORACAL’s “CONSENSUS”… If you want 8.00/gal gas, just remain PASSIVE to this MADNESS… That’s all it will take…
What we have is a crisis in confidence. How is it that this genius cannot understand, that this government of the “best and brightest” that this President whose “IQ is off the charts” cannot understand that this is a crisis in confidence. The probelm is not climate change. NO BODY CARES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. FIX THE F’ING ECONOMY or at the least stay out of the way so it will fix itself!!!!!
Sorry to hear that, but I wish the best for you.
savage24, of course it is limbaugh’s fault, he talked down the economy for the past 15 months with a constant election propaganda drumbeat of “it’s the worst economy in 60 years”. but as lgm points out, it must include that time honored bashee of the communist left george bush. after all bush lied and americans died. but now we have obama lied and americans cried. let’s see how lgm likes soup lines and criminal thugs going into homes and killing the residents so they can live there for a while. happened in russia when that communist workers paradise FAILED. get a life. bush protected the u.s. from attacks following 911, that is the president’s main job. the congress spends money. until 2006 when nancy and soros took over, the economy was fine. now a total shambles, and anyone nearing retirement age is devastated. great job lgm. keep listening to obummer and olberdork. you too will soon be facing life under an overpass. how do you see the universities funding themselves, or the k – 12 schools when property taxes and business tax falls. you better read the fine print on the tenure contract. it doesn’t cover the university going out of business.
Sorry to hear that.
Seems like it.
Thanks John, I appreciate that!
And like most [on this blog] we are creative, determined, and always looking for new opportunities ahead because THAT’S what America is all about…regardless of the roadblocks from this new administration.
It would be nice to think that the government was working with you, or at least not against you, but that appears to be too much to ask from this crew.
Tell us what you do and where you are. Help comes from the strangest places. Above all, keep your chin up!!!
Yes lgm – they did indeed get things done. NOT A SINGLE ONE of the things they did get done puts the country on better economic footing.
Doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing.
Oh crap, who gave a speach now?
DOW down 150 points.
granite: I wasn’t referring only to the current libs in washington – I was generally referring to ALL of them – no matter what letter they carry after their name.
Shame. On. Him.
Oh its Tim Geithner. Never mind. Someone needs to tell these guys to STFU before my 101k becomes a 51k
Oh, and lgm, so what? Clogging up the toilet is also, “getting something done”. So there.
No, seriously, Tim Geithner, STFU. STOP, just STOP. Please. Everytime you open your worthless mouth the market drops so SHUT UP.
sonfody, what’s the problem? At least he’s “getting something done”! With a goal like, “getting something done”, everyone’s a winner, right?? Just ask lgm.
We can thank our last president for that. I’m still not able to define what his governing philosophy was. I’m able to do so with every other previous president.
Ok, I’ll bite:
Jimmy Carter…and GO!
sonofdy grumbles something about getting things done with a baseball bat…..
Shutting down the American oil and gas business (and all the taxes and royalties they already pay) should do wonders for the Federal trasury.
The US oil and gas industry is the #2 source of Federal revenue.
Buttmunch.