Video: DeMint calls on Geithner to resign, Geithner admits he contacted Dodd; Update: Harry Truman, call your office!

Geithner is one of the primary people who orchestrated the AIG bailout/Tarp.

Dems use this to show how important Geithner is and make him Treasury Secretary.

Dems shut Republicans out on crafting their spending bills.

They strip out a revision by one of the 3 Republicans that voted for it to tax these bonuses heavily.

Dodd and Geithner put in revisions that make sure AIG get their bonuses in the bill that Obama touts to the nation is
proof that they are smarter and going to save the day.

These bonuses are so well known that even bloomberg is writhing about them way back in Nov. 08:

AIG Gives ‘Retention’ Pay After Scrapping Bonuses (Update2)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRlALpvxQyZo&refer=home

By Hugh Son

Wintrob, 51, will get the “retention” payment in two installments, the first in April 2009 and the rest a year later, New York-based AIG said today in a regulatory filing. The firm previously disclosed the program in a Sept. 26 filing and said today that Wintrob and Chief Financial Officer David Herzog elected to get the payments four months later than planned.

Geithner goes before the Nation to announce his economic plan and he falls flat.The market drops over 400 points after this pathetic showing of gross ineptitude.

AIG bonuses are publicized causing a major public outcry.
Obama and Geithner pull the Rev. Wright defense of “I had no idea” when they were smack in the middle of this.State that they only learned about these bonuses about a week ago.
Senator Dodd tries to look invisible.

Democrats get together and blame Bush as usual.

Senator Dodd’s provision to insure that the bonuses are paid is revealed and he says that he did not put it there.
He does not know how it got there.

Dodd is slamed with so much proof to the contrary he has to admit he lied and says he did put it there,but it was the Treasury that made him do it.

Geithner then has to admit he did make Dodd change his revision,showing that he lied when he stated that only a week ago is when he learned of it.

Obama’s spending bill is where this was put through.
Obama’s administration is 100% responsible for this bill that Obama claims is proof of how smart and able they are in handling the nations business.

Republicans were shut out of every phase involved in crafting and creating this bill.

Now the super smart democrats with their leader Obama,who is so smart,honest,transparent,accountable,and full of change say that all of this lies at the feet of the “Treasury staff”.

So if and when the economy gets better,these bills by the Obama administration are going to be heralded as the great policies put forth by the incredible Obama and the democrats.

But if they instead are riddled with failure,well then it is the pee ons in their staff that are really in charge and to blame.

Barnum & Baily could not have put together a bigger group of stupid a$$ clowns as the Obama administration is turning out to be.

KARL ROVE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!!!

Baxter Greene on March 19, 2009 at 8:28 PM

Obama struggles as communicator
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20234.html
(via HotAir)

Mixed messages

Obama’s message on the economy has been as volatile as the stock market itself. When he needed public support for his stimulus plan, he spoke in stark and gloomy terms.

So once the stimulus passed — and criticism of his bummer message mounted — he shifted to a more optimistic take on the economy, at one point encouraging people to consider hopping back into the market. That was seen as too bright.

YOU DON’T SAY????????
How could this be.
I mean Obama is like Jesus to the hollywood crowd and his followers say he is going to “Change the World!!!!”.

Look at this example of strong,decisive leadership coming from “the greatest administration since FDR,Lincoln,and JFK
all rolled into one:

Hello……Hello…….Hello,
is there anybody in there.
Just nod if you can hear me,
is there anyone at all???????????????????????

“We are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression”
Barak Obama
Feb. 2009

“They’re (the economy)not as bad as we think they are now.”
Barak Obama
Mar. 2009

White House Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag declared that “fundamentally, the economy is weak.”
Peter Orszag
Mar. 2009

economic adviser Christina Romer. When asked during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if the fundamentals of the economy were sound, she replied: “Of course they are sound.”
Christina Romer (Obama Economic Advisor)
Mar. 2009

During the fall campaign, Obama relentlessly criticized his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, for declaring, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Obama’s team painted the veteran senator as out of touch and failing to grasp the challenges facing the country.
(At the time McCain made this statement,the Dow was over 11,000 and unemployment was a little over 5%.
When the Obama administration made their statement,the Dow was around 6,800 and unemployment was around 9%)
Barak Obama
Nov. 2008

This is a liberals idea of doing things “smarter” and showing great leadership.

“Yes We Can” look like total idiots.

This was when Bush was President:

Obama’s trillions dwarf Bush’s ‘dangerous’ spending
By Byron York
Chief political correspondent 2/24/09
http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-trillions-dwarf-Bushs-dangerous-spending.html

Pelosi and Reid called Bush’s budgets “dangerous” and “unpatriotic,” but with Obama, they’ve changed their tune

Back in 2006, when Democrats were hoping to win control of the House and Senate, party leaders worked themselves into a righteous outrage over the issue of out-of-control federal spending. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the Republican budget “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” because it increased the amount of U.S. debt held by foreign countries. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Republicans of going on “an unprecedented and dangerous borrowing spree” and declared GOP leadership “the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of our country … no other president or Congress even comes close.”

Now that the democrats are in control,deficits are “Great”:

White House Budget Director Orszag: “Elevated Deficits Are Beneficial”

“During an economic downturn like we’re experiencing the deficit gets elevated which is not only natural, it’s beneficial because it helps bring the economy back up to the potential output level. In other words, the key problem we face right now is the gap between how much the economy could produce and how much it is producing. The whole point of the Recovery Act is to fill in that gap and part of that means a temporary elevated deficit.”
Peter Orszag
White House Budget Director
February 26, 2009

I guess if liberals keep saying how “smart” they are,some suckers will believe it because it certainly does not show in their actions.

Baxter Greene on March 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM

Pelosi/Reid/Obama/Frank/Dodd/Geitner the most fiscally irresponsible idiots in the history of our country … no other president or Congress even comes close.”
Baxter Greene on March 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM

There’s a bumper sticker for you.

scalleywag on March 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM

I like what it says,but I don’t think I could get all of those Pompous fat heads on one bumper.

Baxter Greene on March 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM