Five Republicans Vote to Put Our Economy in the Hands of an Incompetent
The Senate Finance Committee voted 18-5 to move Timothy Geithner’s nomination to the floor of the Senate for a confirmation vote. That vote will likely happen next week.
The 18 positive votes included five Republicans including Orrin Hatch. Not one of those Republicans should win their next election because they have agreed to put our entire economic policy in the hands of a man too stupid or corrupt to pay his taxes for four years. Geithner is not fit to run a local office of H&R Block much less the entire Internal Revenue Service. Let us not forget that he sat for years as close to the epicenter of our financial problems as anyone and did exactly nothing about it. In fact, he was a regular partaker of the same type of dicey mortgage that helped bring us to this point.
And yet five Republicans decided that he’s the best man to help save our economy. Bipartisanship beats brains once more.
(via @seanhackbarth)
UPDATE: Here are the five who need to be looking over their shoulders for the re-election challengers:
Orrin Hatch (UT)
John Ensign (NV)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Mike Crapo (ID)
John Cornyn (TX)
John Cornyn? JOHN CORNYN?!? Geez, Senator, get your head on straight or start looking for a new job. This isn’t playtime. It’s sure as hell not the time to be handing the economy of this country over to a man who is either ridiculously incompetent or a brazen liar.
(Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the list)
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Category: The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority
"Geithner is not fit to run a local office of H&R Block much less the entire Internal Revenue Service."
Umm, the guy ran the New York Federal Reserve. If it were simply in New York, it would be the most important one. But the New York Federal Reserve does much more than just that. It's where all paper currency goes to die. It also holds the largest amount of gold in the world. Suck on that, Fort Knox. It does more international financial transactions than anyone. All of Zurich can't even hold a candle to the New York Federal Reserve. As you would expect, security is pretty tight there. They have more security personnel than Manhattan's Police force. The building is designed like a maze. The elevators stop at random floors. You can't get to the next floor without taking three elevators. Take a tour, it's really cool. He ran that well, by all accounts. Yeah, he screwed up on his taxes. I do that every year. TurboTax can't even handle my business, and my tax return is only 90 pages long. His comes in bound volumes. You try to write the Encyclopedia Britannica without making a mistake. The tax code suffers from a very simple problem: it's self conflicting. When you are faced with two conflicting rules, what do you do? Well, you chose the one that asks for less money. And then you go to court over it. He did that, which makes him a pretty sensible guy. It would be nice if the tax code didn't have conflicting provisions, but that's not possible. Mathematics itself is inherently self-conflicting, as Kurt Godel proved so eloquently. Okay, it wasn't so eloquent, he did it using binary math, which doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Regardless, Geithner is well respected, unlike Hank Paulson. And I didn't hear you screaming about Hank, did I? Oh, and Geithner was warning about an economic downturn in 2006. What was Paulson doing then? Telling everyone that the economy looked fine for the foreseeable future. I'm sure Hank would like to take those words back. Geithner doesn't have to take his words back. He was right.
You're flailing badly. it's almost like you don't really read what I write.
As for your desire to remove Cornyn, I couldn't agree more. He was my Senator for a few years, and I hated him. I can respect Hutchison, but not Cornyn. See? We can agree on things.
How shall I put this? Either you misunderstand Godel, or you intentionally oversimplify his conclusion. Your implication is that tax law is inherently imperfect, and imperfectible, but that claim is supported by no evidence whatsoever.
Perhaps, like Jimmie frequently does, you intend to make your point by analogy; if so, I'm afraid I'm too literal to follow it.
Mr. Geithner's tax discrepancy is pretty straigtfoward. This isn't rocket science, any 1st year H&R Block tax preparer knows how to treat 1099 Misc income. The problem is that Mr. Geithner deliberately ignored the tax law and counted on not being caught. He is at best a tax cheat. Despite his great financial skill and managerial expertise he is untrustworthy and morally deficient. His appointment to run the Treasury and the IRS is a slap in the face to all of us poor bastards who get a W2 and pay our taxes whether we want to or not.