Would YOU appoint an arsonist to be Fire Chief ?

Mark_Tampa on January 22, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Well Spoken (or written as the case may be)

Because if Leon Panetta can run the CIA, then Barack Obama can find someone else to run the Treasury.

Hell, I’ll do it. I got TurboTax to work just fine last year.

Or someone who is illiterate.

Exit question: What would you call this new party?

My top three are the American Party, the Federalist Party, or the Conservative Party.

highhopes on January 21, 2009 at 8:47 PM

The Liberty party.

And why not have a normal guy who can’t figure out how to do his own taxes run the economic machinery that is slowly swallowing free enterprise in this country? The MBAs ran the banks and car companies into a deeeep hole, how could he do any worse?

Face it, America as we knew it is over. This is the new America; an America that hates no one and is run by the elites so we can wander around our silly little pedestrian lives so the Euros will like us and terrorism will cease.

Unless he pulls an economic miracle in the very near term, Geithner won’t be long in the position and will be one of the Obama Administration’s first headaches (especially when he gets a pass from Congress on being a tax cheat and hiring an illegal housecleaner.)

Maybe the person from the Government Accountability Office is better suited. Someone who has been complaining about the lack of transparency in how the financial institutions are spending the Billions already given; Tijajana (greatest place on Earth. KKlown). These institutions won’t account for money given and now want more.

For some reason, I keeping thinking back to Clinton CIA man George Tenet and how GWB kept him on after 9/11 and the war on terror (warts and all).

Didn’t the idiot messiah run some campaign ad mocking people who were unable to use simple pieces of software?

All I can say is that you all had better cross your fingers and hope that our SCOTUS gets the guts to hear one of the BHO ineligibility cases. Otherwise, this country has no future, at all. None.

progressoverpeace on January 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM

Forgot about the “He doesn’t know how to use a computer” ads.. You clobbered that one… SECTREAS – THE JOB FOR THOSE WHO ARE TOO STUPID TO USE A COMPUTER…

However, we’re constantly told that not only is Geithner qualified, he’s practically the only person in America who can do the job — by both Democrats and Republicans

Ed

Hey, Ed, you’ve got a typo in this story. You seem to have referred to Lindsay Graham as a Republican…

This is like putting a guy who can’t ride a bike or drive a car as commander of the Space Shuttle. TOO STUPID TO USE TURBOTAX?? As others have pointed out.. Why didn’t he hire an accountant. Methinks this guy might have some financial leakage somewhere… ie. a 5000/hour habit like spitzer, or a love of the ponies or something.. When you are making major money you should be able to hire an accountant.

The obama administration is looking more and more like the Twighlight Zone or Monty Python….

I’d love to be a fly on the wall watching him reading “economics for dummies” during his first week as secrtreas…

Where the hell is my Jack Daniels…..

I suggest Steve Forbes is more qualified. Or Thomas Sowell.

Oh wait, I forgot, they want someone who’ll justify bigger government.

rbj on January 21, 2009 at 7:58 PM

Bingo!

TurboTax should sue him for slander.

roux on January 21, 2009 at 9:55 PM

Good point!

$34,000. Shoot, I use an accountant now but I’ll switch to TurboTax immediately if it’ll save me $34,000 on my taxes. (Quel miracle!)

Any $9/hour H&R Block tax preparer could have explained this to Geithner (and the Senators!). But alas, no explanation was sought or needed. To a man the Senators know what he did and seem willing to give him a pass.

flyfisher on January 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM

Oh! I think you give those H&R Block seasonal employees more credit than they deserve. I mentioned in a previous post that I’ve used Turbo Tax since 1988. That’s because I went to H&R in 1987- the first year I had file my own income tax return. I was on active duty in the military and the idiot who was “my people” couldn’t wrap his mind around the idea that I needed to file a Virginia tax return even though I was living in California. It was a bigger deal back then since you couldn’t get the forms on-line the way you can now.

As to this nomination, Geithner clearly knew he was a tax cheat from the minute he signed those tax returns. He just assumed that the fact he was employed by a subsidiary of the UN would make him immune from audit. All these excuses are lame. Unfortunately, he is likely to be confirmed by the Senate and will be in charge of prosecuting Americans who may have really fallen afoul of tax law by mistake.

Hope and change? Not with all the criminals the filthy bastard is putting in positions of power.

But he said Geithner had been “very sincere” in accounting for his violations.

Does that mean if we’re “very sincere” we won’t have any problems either?

This blatant double standard for the governing class and We the People is outrageous.

The panel’s senior Republican, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, declined for a second day to take a position on Geithner’s nomination. In an interview with Iowa reporters, Grassley reiterated his concern about having a Treasury secretary, with responsibility for the Internal Revenue Service, who had been delinquent on taxes. But he said Geithner had been “very sincere” in accounting for his violations.