Tag Archives: Tim Geithner

Geithner to CEO’s: Obama Doesn’t Hate You…Much

This is actually funny because there have been a number of articles aboot President Obama being the most anti-business President ever, so much so that even his supporters are starting to turn on him. Personally, I don’t know what these people are so shocked that Obama would be so anti-business. Everything aboot his background, influences, and mentors say that the public sector awesomely awesome, and it’s up to people who make more than $250,000 a year to pay for everything.

Maybe they all got all caught up in the hope and/or the change, but it’s ok…because Tim Geithner is on the case.

Apparently they’re sending Geithner to try and convince business owners, the same ones that Democrats demagogue regularly, which the President doesn’t hate them as much as he thinks they do. Whether or not they’re buying any of it…

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Lil’ Timmy Turbo Tax: Uniquely Qualified

I think as soon as you saw Lil’ Timmy Turbo Tax being mocked on Saturday Night Live (which politically I feel has been hee-sterical lately, something you haven’t been able to say aboot SNL since 1993), you knew the wheels were starting to come off. With two days, there were rumors that Steve Rattner was named “car czar” just in case Lil’ Timmy decided to “resign,” they would have someone in place.

While we like to have fun at Lil’ Timmy’s expense lately, he might not be the person to blame for what many consider to be a directionless economic policy (that even Dems like Robert Reich and Warren Buffett are starting to criticize). There is another official in the Obama Administration who might be MORE to blame than Triple-T.

That official? Barack Obama. So sayeth the always fair and balanced Byron York…

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49 Economists Agree: Obama Sucks

It’s been the modus operandi of the Obama Administration to, instead of debating ideas, attacking the people who criticize them (just like the Bush Administration). So when non-ideological cats like Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer disagree with the O.A., there’s Minister of Propaganda Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to attack them and dismiss their criticism by highlighting a few mistakes taken out of context (again, just like how the Bush Administration would do).

When you have cats like Jack Welch and livelong Democrat Warren Buffett criticizing you as well…well, they’re a little harder to criticize.

Well, you can add to that list forty-nine economists polled by the Wall Street Journal who said, with their best Jon Lovitz impersonation, “It Stinks!” From the article

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Lil’ Timmy Turbo Tax

I love hearing the accusations of hypocrisy coming from the left that Republican’s have only now found their inner-conservative and are against wasteful spending and a bloated budget, after six years of giving President Bush whatever he wanted (the Democrats have been on charge for the last two). I’m not denying that the accusations aren’t accurate, but this is politics. The hypocrisy cuts both ways.

You know, kind of like Candidate Obama saying he was going to lower taxes, reign in spending, and usher in a whole new era of transparency.

That brings us to Treasury Secretary Lil’ Timmy Turbo Tax, who is talking aboot going after tax cheats to a panel headed by Charlie Rangel (the irony is quite biting). Though I care less aboot Lil’ Timmy’s tax problems as much as I am him criticizing the past policies HE WAS A PART OF. So sayeth Michael Goodwin
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Fiscal Suicide: Jim DeMint Rules, Boehner and Geithner Drool

Today, while searching for the latest news on the 2009 Fiscal Suicide Act, I came across two examples of communicating with the GOP, one good and one bad. The good one was when I hopped on Twitter when I got home and my good Twitterfriend @jimdemint had this to say:

“Gained seat on Senate Banking committee. Good place to fight government bailouts.”

He also included a link to the official press release on his Senate website:

“I’m excited about the opportunity to fight on behalf of the millions of Americans who want to maintain a strong, free-market economy. The level of government intrusion in our economy over the past year is alarming, and I intend to do everything I can to stop these failed policies.

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John Cornyn is Just Being Silly

As part of P.BAM’s inaugural festivities, the Senate confirmed a bunch of the new President’s cabinet members. One of them was supposed to be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…supposed to be. Her confirmation was held up by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

No, he wasn’t in cahoots with Gov. David Patterson to delay him having to choose Hillary’s successor. His reason for holding up the process was…honestly, I’m not quite sure. Here’s his reasoning

A spokesman for Mr. Cornyn, Kevin McLaughlin, said, “this is not an effort to scuttle or block the nomination, but a legitimate policy difference. Senator Cornyn’s goal is to create transparency on all levels of government.” Mrs. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, signed an agreement with the Obama transition team, putting some limits on foreign donations to his foundation, as well as stipulating annual disclosure of new donors.

But Senator Cornyn, in a letter to Mrs. Clinton last Friday, said he remained worried that her diplomatic activities would be compromised “unless tighter foreign fund-raising restrictions and transparency protocols are adopted.”

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