McCain: Leave Geithner alone!
posted at 6:45 pm on March 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
I’m not unsympathetic to this position myself — or at least, I wasn’t before the timeline of when TurboTax Tim found out about those bonuses began to shudder and creak from all the movement.
Leave it to ol’ Mav to pick the very day we find out Geithner’s recovery plan will be another month late to hop aboard the bandwagon.
Tim Geithner, the embattled US Treasury secretary, should be given a chance to succeed, says John McCain, the former presidential candidate, who is the first prominent Republican to speak up in Mr Geithner’s defence amid growing calls for his resignation…
“Everyone acknowledges he needs help,” said Mr McCain, in reference to the Obama administration’s difficulty in recruiting nominees to the Treasury department, where Mr Geithner remains the only official to have been confirmed.
Here’s Gingrich on Cavuto this afternoon ticking off a few of Geithner’s other greatest hits and predicting that he’s finished. Exit question: Only a 15-20% chance that he’ll end up underneath Obama’s bus? Really?
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McCain needs to get the hell out of the way and let the Democrats feed on each other. He’s an idiot!
evenkeel on March 20, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Do something useful for a change, John. Roll your daughter out from between the stalls of the local Burger King. Stage an intervention.
Kent18 on March 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
SIT DOWN, OLD MAN!
chunderroad on March 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
McCain is like the Palestinians… he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Go retire, McCain, and let a *real* Republican in Arizona take over your Senate seat.
teke184 on March 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
“My friends….”
Mac, sometimes you make me really regret voting for you. Timmy has HAD time, but he spent it lying, obfuscating and dithering.
Bishop on March 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Since Republicans love to blow opportunities when handed to them on silver platters, I’m sure there will be more Republican support for Geithner. Especially if he keeps digging his own grave. Where’s Lindsey on this? Not far behind, I’d bet.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I actually think Turbo Tax Tim will survive this..for a very short time, perhaps a year or so. Then he’ll “resign”, allowing TOTUS to save face.
ladyingray on March 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I’d like Geitner to succeed in fixing the economy, but cripes, I’d like to see Attila the Hun succeed in fixing the economy, too.
He will have to resign if he can’t do what he says he can do, just like anyone else.
DrStock on March 20, 2009 at 6:50 PM
McCain makes me dizzy.
katy on March 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
You know, we get bashed when we argue that this corpse was a bad fit for the republican party and once again, the ‘maverick’ shows his true colors.
I for one, have had enough of this assbag. JD, please get your ground game started. 2010 is the year to finally put this corpse to rest.
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Has John McCain and his Daughter joined the Democrats? They don’t seem to speak for the GOP…
IntheNet on March 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
McCain is slowly losing his credibility. He must not have read that Geithner lied about when he first learned about the bonuses: he said March 10, while CSPAN say March 3.
technopeasant on March 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
What would McCain know about this? He said “the fundamentals of the economy were strong.” Can you really take him seriously?
Johnson on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Kini on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
ToTUS ain’t the problem…ToTUS is a moderate….Ogabe on the other hand….
McCain needs a nice cup of go the hell away.
sven10077 on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Its the eye of the tiger.
McCain moving in for the kill…he is a warrior.
Great timing, dumbass.
And your daughter is even dumber than you.
The Wall on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Kinda like Dahmer’s victims going “Leave Jeffrey Alone!”
blatantblue on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Do something useful for a change, John. Roll your daughter out from between the stalls of the local Burger King. Stage an intervention.
Kent18 on March 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Ok…I admit laughing at this, even though I likes the womyns who are built like Meghan.
Bishop on March 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Did he say this with or without his other head Lieberman?
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Didn’t you see him RIGHT behind the ‘maverick’?
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
LOL!
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
This is why I ended up pulling the lever for Obama. McCain doesn’t make sense. Besides his POW status he had no identity and no platform. When the economic crisis hit he turned into an incoherent erratic and reactive fool. And honestly I think he would have been just as as a disaster that Obama is turning out to be.
Magnus on March 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
People who earn their wealth > people who marry into wealth.
The Wall on March 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM
McCain just needs to stop.
He lost honorably as we wanted to do because he doesn’t give a frak about the GOP or Republican ideals or principles. Man before party and all that stuff. Now he just needs to sit down and keep his maverick mouth shut. He’s done.
SimplyKimberly on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
The main difference would have been between a competent liberal who nominated a complete staff and an incompetent liberal who nominates tax cheats….
“good job”….
sven10077 on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
I like ‘em at thinna
but im down for a little cushion for the pushin
:-o
blatantblue on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
…….. but there is time for Jay Leno.
Mr. McCain would have more luck if he told everyone to lay off the teleprompter……..
Seven Percent Solution on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
McCain has as much political sense as a turnip.
PersonalLiberty on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Go McCain, please go . . . you’ve earned it and we’ll miss you but please, please go.
rplat on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
If little Timmy resigns, who is left to pick up the pieces and put them together again? I know any Republican financial guy could do it, but what’s out there on the other side that knows what to do? Never mind. I just answered my own question.
BetseyRoss on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Hey seriously, are Mav and Lindsey more than just friends. Just seems a little wierd a guy his age butt sniffing another guy like that.
The Wall on March 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM
blatantblue on March 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
This is WHY the republicans can’t seem to get their sh*t together. You have McCain the corpse, Graham, his right hand man hogging the microphones, spreading their mealy mouth just right of center crap. It makes the republicans look like dems illegitimate cousin.
STFU John. Go home and take your girlfriend, Lindsey, with you.
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
And everyone but you, Maverick, knows why no one wants to work for Turbo Tax Timmy.
They don’t want that association on their resumes. Which they would have to start mailing out all too quickly when TT crashes and burns.
Wethal on March 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM
He is a democrat.
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM
But it’s not as much fun if he doesn’t speak out to. I need Lindsey to tell us loud people to lay off Geithener and to shut up.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM
OK, who’s turn was it to make sure that McCoot didn’t come down from the attic?
MB4 on March 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM
McCain has no authority to talk. He was on ’60 Minutes’ discussing that he would put Andrew Cuomo, one of the doofuses that led to the housing and economic meltdown, to be in his administration. He also supports cap and trade. Not a genius in the economy.
jencab on March 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM
IDIOT McCain. It’s weak, PC comments like this, are just another reason why you’re sitting in the loser’s circle.
byteshredder on March 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
No he didnt. He cheated in the primaries…used independents and carried on a liason with lucifer Huckabee to drown the only conservative in the race.
Then he made a total ass out of himself in the general with the crap with Letterman, etc. And now WE pay for it. he is covered with his wife’s many homes though
The Wall on March 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Would McCain have picked Geithner if he had won? Maybe…
Upstater85 on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
We didn’t vote for you, John.
We voted against 0bama.
warbaby on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
And don’t forget bowling later…..
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Heckuva job Johnnie.
Now where is that damn checkbook….?
I can’t seem to find it.
NeoKong on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
My friends, lay down!
Lay down on the floor like a dead dog!
Lay down and surrender!
Surrender your future!
Surrender your children’s future!
Surrender with me! Surrender to a trillion dollars in pork!
Lay down! Lay down with me! Lay down in a bipartisan manner!
Lay down and give up!
Give up the free market! Give up the middle class!
Surrender to hyperinflation!
Surrender to higher and higher taxes!
Give up with me! Lay down!
Never fight and surrender! Surrender!
Surrender in a bipartisan manner!
chunderroad on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
McCain you damned fool! Somebody gag the old SOB and put in him in the Senate broom closet. Get the heck out of the way and let Geithner & the dems fall apart. I can’t believe I had to vote for this stupid,stupid man.
portlandon on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
There’s a ringing endorsement. I’m kinda glad McCain’s not on our side.
notropis on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Sven,
I’m not convinced of that either.
Magnus on March 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Turns out Ann Coulter was wrong. Mike Huckabee isn’t the “Jimmy Carter” of the Republican party — John McCain is.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on March 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
“drown the only conservative in the race.”
Fred Thompson?
notropis on March 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
That’s thing, every time McCain does something like this, I have to whip out my election day Lysol all over again.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
I am so embarrassed I supported him…still would have been better then Obama, but then who wouldn’t (Paul is the exception).
Every time he opens his mouth, I hear a resounding “I told you so”…as it was, there was no other alternative that would have made a difference…my saving grace.
right2bright on March 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I just called the ‘maverick’s’ office and said the following:
‘Senator McCain, you have never represented the GOP or the republican party and now you come to the defense of Timmy Geithner. Like you told us racists and bigots that want our Federal Laws enforced, please sit down and shut up.’
Call John and give him your opinion:
202-224-2235
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Hmm wonder what his Wife thinks about this.
upinak on March 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
We should all chip in and get McCain a pet chimp for his birthday.
Valiant on March 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Heh, you think Juan Queeg would have 9/10ths of Treasury unfilled?
I don’t he’d fill it with a bunch of liberal donks but it’d be full….
“reset button”?
no
giving a blinding man DVDs from the wrong region?
No
again
“good job”
sven10077 on March 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Translation: Romney lost =(
portlandon on March 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Cool.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Mccain is a freaking idiot
milemarker2020 on March 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Hey, Johnny, how about you pour yourself a nice, tall, cool glass of Shut The Hell Up, Jackass!
YOU ran the most lethargic campaign in history and put these bozos in the positions of power they’re now completely inadequate to hold!
And for the love of God, cuff that moronic brat of yours upside the head for being so easily used…
SuperCool on March 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Perfect. Wait, that was sarcasm, right?
Johnson on March 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I ran out already.
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
McCain go be
decentmedia darling somewhere else.RobCon on March 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Fred Thompson calls out Geithner
William Amos on March 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
I voted for neither. I wrote in Ronald Reagan. I’ve always wanted to vote for Reagan. I knew I couldn’t vote for McCain and my state wouldn’t go to Obama anyway.
SimplyKimberly on March 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
You sound like one of those idiots that supported McCain (or Schmuck) in the primary. I would be embarrassed to if I were you…schmuck!
The Wall on March 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Dole’s was way more lethargic. Plus, as much as I love Kemp, he didn’t have the umph that Palin had.
But I am with you on the tall glass of shut the hell up.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Somewhere, in a dank, dark attic, wiseman is cracking his knuckles and getting ready to defend his favorite rino……
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
dear god make it stop. make it all stop! first him, then his pig of a daughter, now him again! what is wrong with strong conservative men and women and where the hell are they and why have they all been so quiet the last 50 some days????? and this is from me, someone who used to be a democrat. i just don’t get it anymore. i really don’t. i scream and holler about the dems more than those in congress do and should. ugh!
Ghoul aid on March 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Maybe Johnny Mac didn’t lie–he really doesn’t know the first thing about business!
John, Turbo Tax is a disaster!
Ask Cindy–she knows how to manage money!
(Although I like having Geithner there, because the longer he takes formulating a bank bailout plan, the more time we have to stall any more “stimulus packages” getting through Congress, which is a very, very good thing!)
Jenfidel on March 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM
McCain was a loser.
McCain is a loser.
He helped make Obama what he is today.
He still hasn’t seen the light & never will.
He looks in the mirror everyday & says to himself
-I’m such a nice guy. I want to be loved by all & I strive to have everone as “my friend”. Remember he kept saying that over & over-”my friend”.
Gulf Coast on March 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Why is McCain still relevant? Why doesn’t he go off to the land of irrelevant independents with his pal Joe?
anniekc on March 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Where do you think she learned it from?
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Stop, in my happy world, I believe only NH democrats and mislead independents voted for McCain….you’re ruining it. Where’s my unicorn?
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
McCain, I’ll buy you a beer at the VFW but please shut up and get out of the way….SIR.
RobCon on March 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
- James A. Garfield
MB4 on March 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
+100
nolapol on March 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
You guys are really being unfair.
Mac meant to say this a month ago. It just took this long to get the words out.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM
McCain go back to do something anything but getting involved. UGH! Go Back to counting houses, money, or hairs on your head something.
Brat4life on March 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Guys, guys, please…it doesn’t matter why we lost *cough-McCain!-cough* What matters now is that we figure out who not to listen to so that it doesn’t happen next time *cough-McCain!-cough*.
Johnson on March 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
At least he’s not suspended his senatorial career to fix the economy…..
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM
But if about 98 of them would, that might actually save the economy.
myrenovations on March 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
John McCain = genuine American Military Hero.
John McCain = enemy to the 1st & 2nd Amendments and one piss poor politician
el rey on March 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Sven,
again I’m not convinced. John McCain hasn’t revealed much of himself to me besides beating me over the head that he was s POW. And then Palin totally took him over. So I don’t know what he would have done.
I will say I seriously doubt that all his picks would have pristine tax records. Personally I think this is a product of Obama’s somewhat transparency. Politicians with money always seem to find ways around things that the average joe would be in jail for(cheating taxes). So yes McCain’s cabinet would have been filled but I think we’d still have tax cheats including Timothy Geithner, but we just wouldn’t know about it. McCain was a big Geithner fan.
Magnus on March 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
I’m a loser
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Of all the issues I have won or have lost
There is one issue I should never have come across
It was a issue about millions, my friends
I should have known it would be lettuce picking that got me in the end
I’m a loser
And I lost an el Presidency that was dear to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Although I talk and I act like I’ve been surging all around
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for my el Presidency and myself that I cry
I’m a loser
And I lost an el Presidency that was so dear to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
What have I done to deserve such a fate
I realized my amnesty game was up but it was by then too late
And so it’s true, conniving comes before a fall
I’m telling you so that you won’t lose all
I’m a loser
And I lost an el Presidency that was dear to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
MB4 on March 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM
However, better to have voted for McCain then Romney, Huck, Paul, Thompson… a sad slate of candidates.
None of them had what it takes to be a President…but all had more then Obama (except Paul).
right2bright on March 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
McCain needs to shut up and retire. He is a genuine hero but has done more damage to this country than he has the capacity to imagine!!
Hal-9000 on March 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Excellent!
PatMac on March 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Essentially what that means is you didn’t vote. I know it feels good to just kick your feet and scream, but if you’re gonna play you gotta make sure it counts.
McCain? A distasteful choice.
As opposed to giving the lefties carte blanche with my blessing? McCain looked like Winston Churchill.
warbaby on March 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I’m pretty sure in between the posts on her blog about rad new shoes and some rapper that Meghan thought the same. Do we have confirmation Mr Allah?
Marcus on March 20, 2009 at 7:14 PM
McCain CAN kiss my a**!!!!!
build the wall on March 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM
again
you think McCain would have soured relations with the UK, and mollycoddled Iran?
Sorry no dice…
“good job” thanks for the guy who makes tard jokes on the chin show…
sven10077 on March 20, 2009 at 7:17 PM
McCain does have a point that Obama has pretty much left Geithner to twist in the wind. I don’t put as much blame on Geithner as I do Obama who hasn’t exactly been doing his job by staffing the Treasury.
goat on March 20, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Make sure you let McCain know just how you feel about his coming to the defense of Obama’s boy.
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Now he uses Rev. Wright, not against Obama though. He saved it to bury the party he took to the wilderness.
msmveritas on March 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I am guessing John McCain is a big fan of one half of the local blogging team.
Go easy on the other guys when they step on their cranks in public. Pile right on with the left when one of our own speaks up. Does that sound like anybody I know?
A Balrog of Morgoth on March 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Is McCain running for Rose Parade queen now?
Chuck Schick on March 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I remember days full of restlessness and fury
I remember nights that were drunk on dreams
I remember someone who hungered for the glory
I remember him
Let him go, let him die on his own
We are all of us bruised and alone
Now we will have nothing to hold
Let him know, hurl it in to his renegade heart
That the best of his dreams fell apart
And the dark of the morning grows cold
PercyB on March 20, 2009 at 7:18 PM
After seeing the limit of McCain’s political skills, I thought at least the old codger could always go back to comedy. But he’s lost his timing, too.
McCain could become a Walmart greeter, but he’d tell the customers to shop at Target.
Terrie on March 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Someone needs to call McConnell and tell him to put a ball gag on this asshat.
HornetSting on March 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM
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