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2012 Tim Geithner Will Not Stick Around for a Second Term
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Tim Geithner, one of President Barack Obama’s closest economic advisers, has no intention on staying on as Treasury secretary if Obama wins a second term.
Geithner, who was one of the chief architects of the government’s response to the financial crisis, told Bloomberg Television he’s “pretty confident” Obama won’t ask him to stay on.
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Fought stimulus tooth and nail, and was a strong voice for austerity, the glossy-haired shitbird. He made noises about leaving back in June, but didn't, damn him. Good riddance, if he'd just get gone.
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I initially read this to be "one of President Barack Obama's closeted economic advisors" and I thought, well how many of them are there?
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And take Larry Summers with you, please.
A photo of those two sums up 95% of everything that was wrong with Obama's first term.
(The other 5% belongs to every last idiot involved in the abortive attempt to close Gitmo: opened by executive order of the Bush administration, but apparently we have to pussy-foot around the likes of Peter King (ScumBag- Long Island) in order to get it closed? What the ever-loving fuck, people?)
A photo of those two sums up 95% of everything that was wrong with Obama's first term.
(The other 5% belongs to every last idiot involved in the abortive attempt to close Gitmo: opened by executive order of the Bush administration, but apparently we have to pussy-foot around the likes of Peter King (ScumBag- Long Island) in order to get it closed? What the ever-loving fuck, people?)
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@4: My guess is Obama will appoint an executive from Zynga, after reading in the CV that an occasional read is "Harvard Business Review." Any combination of imaginary dollars + string search of "Harvard" = Treasury Secretary post.
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Easy vote in the polling. Geithner is getting his payday at Citibank. It should be illegal for him to go anywhere for a year, but he'll now get paid back for not disassembling Citi as Obama directed him to.
Completely agree with @3 that Summers must go too.
Completely agree with @3 that Summers must go too.
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I'm pretty proud of my alma mater. Politicians like Kirsten Gillibrand, Robert Reich, Mike Capuano, and John Kitzhaber; entertainers like Rachel Dratch, Connie Britton, Michael Moriarty, Grant Tinker, and Buck Henry; journalists such as Mort Kondracke, Jake Tapper, and Robert Christgau; writers like Louise Erdrich and Gregory Rabassa; athletes including Adam Nelson, Jim Beattie, Brad Ausmus, Reggie Williams, Jay Fiedler, Jeff Kemp, Nick Lowery, Tanner Glass, Gillian Apps, Cammy Myler; even businesspeople such as Lou Gerstner, Sandy Alderson, Bill Neukom, and T.J. Rodgers. Oh, and we can't forget C. Everett Koop.
And that's just living alums.
Oh, there are exceptions -- D'Souza and Ingraham, of course. Jeffrey Immelt and Henry Paulson (a classmate of Bob Reich's, BTW). Slade Gorton, Rob Portman, and John Hoeven.
And also Timothy Geithner. Putting a black mark on the Big Green.
And that's just living alums.
Oh, there are exceptions -- D'Souza and Ingraham, of course. Jeffrey Immelt and Henry Paulson (a classmate of Bob Reich's, BTW). Slade Gorton, Rob Portman, and John Hoeven.
And also Timothy Geithner. Putting a black mark on the Big Green.
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Hiring Geithner was arguably Obama's worst decision. The only thing that might be worse is his decision not to fire him yet.
Holder needs to go too. How on earth are we 3+ years in to this financial disaster and not a singel one of the asshole banksters have been prosecuted? What kind of AG let's that happen?
Holder needs to go too. How on earth are we 3+ years in to this financial disaster and not a singel one of the asshole banksters have been prosecuted? What kind of AG let's that happen?
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left out the best option , both fuck the hell off . as for holder he's only two inches from prison as far as i'm concerned . he knew all about fast and furious and he's a lying piece of shit .
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@12: The kind of Attorney General appointed by a President who has accepted $16 million in contributions from Wall Street -- more than all Republican candidates combined -- this election cycle? (As of November.)
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ed…
As Rocky Anderson -- Presidential nominee of the Justice Party -- has said:
"Just follow the money, and you’ll see why Congress and the White House are pursuing these policies that are so inimical to the interest of the American people."
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/13/e…
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ed…
As Rocky Anderson -- Presidential nominee of the Justice Party -- has said:
"Just follow the money, and you’ll see why Congress and the White House are pursuing these policies that are so inimical to the interest of the American people."
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/13/e…
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