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Obama says treasury secretary's job is secure
AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/21/09 | Lolita C. Baldor - ap

Posted on 03/21/2009 7:17:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says treasury secretary is one job that's not up for grabs.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" Obama said that if Treasury chief Timothy Geithner offered his resignation, the answer would be, "Sorry buddy, you've still got the job."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhotreasury; geithner; obama; secure; treasurysecretary
Obama says treasury secretary's job is secure

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Kiss of death ? Pool time ?

1 posted on 03/21/2009 7:17:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

better check the lug nuts cause the wheels may be coming off that dare bus


2 posted on 03/21/2009 7:18:40 PM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: NormsRevenge

Timmay says: “You can`t make me!”


3 posted on 03/21/2009 7:18:53 PM PDT by He who knoweth not his name
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama says treasury secretary's job is secure

Translation: Geithner will be replaced within 10 days.

4 posted on 03/21/2009 7:19:08 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: NormsRevenge
The beauty of having an incompetent boss.
5 posted on 03/21/2009 7:19:23 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NormsRevenge

“Obama says treasury secretary’s job is secure”

Was this one of his one line zingers on the Leno show?


6 posted on 03/21/2009 7:20:48 PM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: NormsRevenge

Funny how being an incompetent boob did what being a tax cheat couldn’t do.


7 posted on 03/21/2009 7:21:14 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: NormsRevenge

If Obama replaced the secretary of the treasury, he would have to admit he made a mistake.

It’s not going to happen.

The One does NOT make mistakes.


8 posted on 03/21/2009 7:21:26 PM PDT by CriticalJ
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To: He who knoweth not his name

“In solidarity with the people of America being laid off...I hereby lay myself off.” Sorry, Obummer.


9 posted on 03/21/2009 7:22:12 PM PDT by He who knoweth not his name
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Celebrity White House

Life is good. We just planted a garden.

When will he and Michelle go on Martha or Rachel Ray to show off their garden?


10 posted on 03/21/2009 7:22:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Bertha Fanation

No, separate interview, this was taped for 60 minutes tomorrow night.


11 posted on 03/21/2009 7:24:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: CriticalJ
I do not disagree, but -— something else is playing here as well:

What if Geitner got canned -—

And NOBODY ELSE would take the job?

Think it through, the public is on a mad frenzy, populist, even mindless outrage is palpable out there, and we have a Marxist, an Incompetent Marxist, as President trying to do what is impossible: Spend and borrow our way to prosperity!

So, what SMART economist or MBA or executive ANYWHERE would take this job?

Geitner can't even fill his own staff right now.

So, Obama is worried about the embarrassment of having to hire a 3rd or 4th string light weight, since nobody in the top tier of talent will get NEAR this job!

12 posted on 03/21/2009 7:25:42 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: NormsRevenge

I think one of them is scheduled on Rachel Ray next week....


13 posted on 03/21/2009 7:26:15 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Conservative and fighting for freedom and liberty....whether you like it or not.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Of course, everything to destroy the economy and implement total nationalization is on track. Why mess with success?


14 posted on 03/21/2009 7:29:39 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe he wants him to take the Grassley solution. Or go to lunch at Ft. Marcie Park.


15 posted on 03/21/2009 7:31:47 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: shadeaud

Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," returns to modern times to pleas for a second revolution to take back America, Now!

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

Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," speaks out about ZeroBama's Economic Stimulus!!

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

16 posted on 03/21/2009 7:34:57 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: Kansas58

not only that but the liberals won’t let anyone from ‘evil’ wall street even if they are willing to take this job and have no tax problems


17 posted on 03/21/2009 7:35:42 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: CriticalJ

He admitted he screwed up on the nomination of Daschle. Soon it will be “This is not the Geithner I knew”


18 posted on 03/21/2009 7:35:42 PM PDT by xp38
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To: All

The only reason Timmie hasn’t been replaced is they can’t get anyone to volunteer. Where’s Jimmy Hoffa when we need him ????????? At least he knew how to run a crooked business !!!!!!


19 posted on 03/21/2009 7:35:47 PM PDT by jmax
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To: NormsRevenge

They can’t get anyone else to volunteer to take over the controls of this trainwreck!

Has anyone created a graphic of Zero fiddling while the USA burns? I’d love to grab it!


20 posted on 03/21/2009 7:37:27 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama says treasury secretary’s job is secure


He also said that he could no more disown Rev Wright than he could disown his own White Grandmother. He said that right before he threw him under the bus.

If I were Timmy, I’d be polishing my resume (and/or changing my name and appearance).


21 posted on 03/21/2009 7:40:42 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

TOTUS, in the interview taped Friday, says he’s been in office “ 40 whole days.”
I wonder what calendar he’s using ?
Or maybe since he only works half days
and takes every weekend off,
with an occasional three day thrown in,
plus days off during the week-
that could be right by his schedule.


22 posted on 03/21/2009 7:42:31 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: VideoDoctor
Obama says treasury secretary's job is secure
Translation: Geithner will be replaced within 10 days.


that's is "somewhat unlikely"; Der Fuhrer, hasn't finished "using" him.


"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
"There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us." —Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector

23 posted on 03/21/2009 7:44:33 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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To: ari-freedom
It is Orwellian -—

the mortgage and Wall Street mess were created by Democrats, but the loony left thinks that every corporate board and all CEO’s are Republicans!

Nearly everyone arrested in the last 2 years, for financial crimes, has been a Democrat.

Nearly every mortgage firm that got in trouble was run by Democrats.

And, all of the lenders were doing what the Democrats in Congress forced them to do: Make bad loans!

24 posted on 03/21/2009 7:46:23 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: NormsRevenge

When Clinton said this the guy was history.


25 posted on 03/21/2009 7:47:57 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: NormsRevenge

So is Obama claiming this as one of the jobs he’s “created or saved?”


26 posted on 03/21/2009 7:48:51 PM PDT by vamoose
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To: NormsRevenge

Were this a Republican president, the msm would be frothing at the mouth every day, demanding that such an incompetent Sec. of the Treasury be fired. Of course, Geithner would never have gotten the job in the first place when his tax cheating was discovered because the msm would have seen to that.
The msm is so heavily into their Obama worship that they will do whatever it takes to help him keep those phony poll numbers up.


27 posted on 03/21/2009 7:56:29 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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I wanna hear Barry say:

"My (uh)(ah) second term is (er)(ah) inevitable".

"So, (ah) I (er) will be back"

28 posted on 03/21/2009 7:59:16 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: kittymyrib
Gietner’s job may be secure but ours are not thanks to their “schemes.”
29 posted on 03/21/2009 8:02:13 PM PDT by lakertaker (Libertarian Party since 1998)
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To: lakertaker

Nobody can ever accuse Nobama of learning from his mistakes.


30 posted on 03/21/2009 8:04:48 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: NormsRevenge

“Good job, Geithie!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKjShmHw7s&NR=1


31 posted on 03/21/2009 8:12:16 PM PDT by DGHoodini (God's gonna getcha!)
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To: Kansas58
And NOBODY ELSE would take the job?

Michael Bloomberg is bucking for the job. Every other word he utters is a suck-up to Obama.

32 posted on 03/21/2009 8:22:41 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: NormsRevenge; All

Have you read about TOTUS’s Geithner connection?...here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2208293/posts

I doubt TIC will throw Tiny Tim under the bus. He’s drivin’ it like he’s takin’ lil’ Tim to school.


33 posted on 03/21/2009 8:26:03 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kansas58

I have noticed a reluctance of potential workers not willing to hitch their future to the Obama machine. They can tell it would be a bad career move.


34 posted on 03/22/2009 5:18:32 AM PDT by CriticalJ
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To: xp38

Yeah. He did. Different situation though. Daschle backed out. It was easy to pile on then.


35 posted on 03/22/2009 5:19:23 AM PDT by CriticalJ
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