Fire Geithner.

[Faryn Balyncd]

:kick:

[gateley]

1. Amen. nt

[Demeter]

64. In the Barnum and Bailey Manner

without the net

[gateley]

68. Bwah! Perfect!! nt

[avaistheone1]

2. The sooner the better.

Take Larry Summers with him and the rest of the Goldman Sachs crowd at Treasury.

[Enthusiast]

40. No doubt. nt

[aquart]

3. Good idea.

[laughingliberal]

4. K & R nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. And, Summers and Gates and Petraeus.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. And Emanuel, Duncan, and VilSuck

:puke:

[jgraz]

10. And Salazar

[tbyg52]

20. Please. As soon as I started hearing those nominations,

I knew we would not be going in the direction we had hoped.

[sabrina 1]

29. And Alan Simpson , Pete Peterson and Gates.

[jgraz]

30. But... who will invite Grover Norquist to lecture on deficit reduction???

I mean... Jane Hamster isn't on the catfood commission! :evilgrin:

[sabrina 1]

33. Don't give them any ideas! They are doing

perfectly well all by themselves ~ :-)

I wish Jane Hamsher was on the Commission. At least she wouldn't be advocating the cutting benefits for the most vulnerable members of society.

[jgraz]

72. Norquist already presented to the commission.

But, I'm sure they have plenty of voices from the left to balance him out.

:eyes:

[Jakes Progress]

62. But norquist will be in line for an appointment.

[glitch]

54. IOW, get a mop. nt

[fascisthunter]

48. .

[Just-plain-Kathy]

75. ALL of Bush's hand me downs. K&R

[havocmom]

6. For starters

:kick:

[SlipperySlope]

7. Please. Tomorrow. Don't wait.

[Jim Sagle]

8. Fuckin' A.

[oldgrowth]

11. And take Lawrence Summers with you!nt

[PDJane]

12. And hire Elizabeth Warren in his place. eom.

[newspeak]

21. yes, I 'd let Summers, Geithner, Paulsen go

and hire Warren, Roubini, Krugman, and Gilbraith. Well, that's what I'd do if I actually cared about most of the people in this country. Oh, and Robert Kennedy, Jr. can take Gates job.

[Hubert Flottz]

45. Muller too...

And all the scum Bush left in any office in America.

[TBF]

13. +1000, and he could take Rahm with him too. nt

[Octafish]

14. Yesterday.

The New Geithner-AIG Emails Are Merely The Tip Of The Iceberg

Who said economics was dull?

[G_j]

22. oh my

what a tangled web they weave..

[Octafish]

24. It gets worse.

Seems the Geithner -- cough, Ford Foundation -- and Obama family ties go back to Suharto days.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

32. Damn the loose lips!

I thought we'd done away with E. S. already. Sheesh, what a blabbermouth.

[Ignis]

49. Drip...drip...drip....

:thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

15. Sounds like a plan.

:thumbsup:

[lonestarnot]

16. Boot his ass.

[Joanne98]

17. YEA!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. And Duncan.

And Vilsack. And...

[LWolf]

19. And Duncan. And Rahm.

:kick:

[kenny blankenship]

23. You don't fire made men.

You don't tell them what to do. You don't say to them "That's too much!" And you never take sides with anyone outside of the family. Fredo could tell you about that, if he was here. Tim Geithner earned his button a long time ago. If Obama wants his, he's going to continue to take orders.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. A good housecleaning would give me --

a reason to vote for O in 1012. Like many have said, as soon as I heard certain appointees names I knew were seriously fucked. If I start hearing new namea like "Elizabeth Warren" I might - MIGHT -- start thinking differantly about this administration.

[prairierose]

36. HHF, I agree with you but...

I don't really believe that it will happen.

[davidwparker]

43. +1

[DirkGently]

26. Co-signed.

[taught_me_patience]

27. +1000

:kick:

[Populist_Prole]

28. Drop-kick him. Summers too

I had a very low opinion of them from reading their views on economic blogs well before the '08 election: Imagine my disgust to find they would be instrumental in running the show, policy-wise. Rotten "fouth way"-ers. ( Spits at ground )

[closeupready]

31. Amen.

K&R

[burrowowl]

34. Fire Geithner!

Put Krugeman or Warren in his place already!

[defendandprotect]

35. K/R -- 1000% --

[MissDeeds]

37. He never should have been hired in the first place

K&R

:kick:

[metapunditedgy]

38. And tell me, WHY was he hired in the first place? n/t

[kurtzapril4]

58. Because the OBama administration

has a multi-dimensional chess game going on that you and I cannot even begin to understand. Don't worry...it'll be alright!

Reminds me of a song from a Disney Cartoon...the Jungle Book. The python, Kaa, sings a song called "Trust in Me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0I5UepXMA

[Obamanaut]

70. Some time back, when Geithner's nomination was being discussed here,

an answer (not my answer) to a similar question was "Because I trust Obama."

So we have a Treas Sec who had his own IRS issues put into a spot where he could have his fingers in a lot more pies.

Some days it is really hard to 'cling' to that old 'hopey changey' feeling.

[metapunditedgy]

77. You just have to wonder what the thinking was. If there's no obvious postiives,

and a lot of obvious negatives to hiring Geithner, then what was going on???

[Enthusiast]

39. K&R!

As soon as possible. With Geithner in place the administration has no credibility on the economy. Sorry, but it's true.

[me b zola]

K&R

[me b zola]

41. K&R

[alllyingwhores]

42. DUH.

[Hubert Flottz]

44. And then put him and his fellow thieves and crooks in jail.

[okieinpain]

46. im starting to believe that needs to be done. this slow down of the

recovery is due in part to the banks holding down lending.

[BlueJac]

47. Long over due thread!!!!

[bvar22]

50. Hey!!! Where's your team spirit?

The DLC New Team

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

AND, Where is your "positive" post to counter balance this unwarranted attack???!!!
Sorry.
But I'm going to have to report you and all the other disloyal traitors on this thread to the Correctness Commissars.
THEN, you'll be sorry!!!

[FlyByNight]

51. K & R!!

Timmy's opposition to Prof. Warren heading the CFPA only illuminates just how awful his appointment was/is.

[pjt7]

52. He is a tax cheat & the ultimate puppet

of corrupt Investment banking. Shame on Obama for picking him.

He obviously needs to GO.

[WhiteTara]

53. and send Rahm with him. n/t

[howmad1]

69. OK. So let's complete the job.......

.....and get rid of this amateur in the White House and bring in Howard Dean and Alan Grayson. Get rid of the whole friggin kit and kaboodle and start fresh. Maybe then we'd have a chance in 2012.

[WhiteTara]

79. Obama is not a bad president

it is just unfortunate that he is surrounded by the money guys, not the do it guys.

[WillyT]

55. Yep... I'm With Ya !!! - K & R !!!

:kick:

[Dinger]

56. Yes, Them Fire duncan, PLEASE:)

[EmeraldCityGrl]

57. Geitner, Rahm et al. will be Obama's downfall. I would have thought him

savvy enough to have figured that out. It's really a shame. This could have been
some of the most remarkable years in this countries history.

[Festivito]

59. C D Scheisen about to hit the fan anyway. This will let Geithner avoid blame he deserves.

At some point things are going to fail badly. When that happens, it will be likened unto Bush blaming Obama for the economy.

But, the change might at least give us some more time, insight and historical evidence.

[Richardo]

60. Hear hear

I would have rec'ed this in January 2009. :patriot:

[Jakes Progress]

61. The biggest disappointment in our president

has been his choice of advisers.

[Thornleylv]

63. Fire him Hire her ///

[donheld]

65. ASAP

[lib2DaBone]

66. ..but 'lil Timmy is Mr. Obama's favorite person....

[AllyCat]

67. That'd be a start

[lumberjack_jeff]

71. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Uv90L7Vbk

[ProudDad]

73. Hell, fire the idiot that hired him! (n/t)

[upi402]

74. Good start

But pie in the sky until we get an opposition party to challenge these yahoos

[tomp]

76. frankly, i'm ready to fire obama.

i mean, really, who is responsible for all these appointments?

[scheming daemons]

80. wow... You and the GOP have the same goal

[tomp]

81. not exactly.

but then, only a very shallow thinker would equate those two things.

you obamaphiliacs get very tiresome.

[limit18]

78. And put Pelosi

in the nursing home.
"Promote Alvin Greene".