Good on DeMint. Let us hope he speaks up about the Child Marxist next year. I’ll wager he does.
That’s a start. I demand that Boner,Canker, and old MacConnell go.
Also Obama, Biden, Holder, Schumer, Durbin, Pelosi, Reid, ...........
Way too many skeletons.
Geithner is a little dweeb, but he’s not the person primarily responsible here. He may not be the greatest Sec. of the Treasury ever, and his advice may be so-so, but he doesn’t drive the over-the-top deficit policies favored by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al.
While I think it is a good start, I wish that Obama would get the credit, not Geithner! It’s OBAMA’S policies...not Geithner’s or Holder’s or any underling’s.
OBAMAA+ did it.
It doesn’t matter that Geithner is or isn’t a rotten SecTreas, he’s one of Obamas minions and any time we have a chance to get one of them out of the gov’t, we must take it.
I thank the writer for saying “Tea Party favorite” rather than “Tea Party darling”. For some reason that “darling” phrase is really annnoying and feels demeaning.
Add Fed Chair Bernanke and Obama himself to the list of those who should resign.
how hard could it be to find another tax cheat academic marxist?
"In 15 minutes, you could be saving 15% or more on your national debt with Geithner (fired)..."
Turbo tax Timmy must go? Turbo Tax Timmy, like Bambi had a very thin resume, but was given a pass by the liberal MSM because their boy wanted him on board. No republican president, given Turbo Tax Timmy’s tax dodge issues and lack of credentials, would have touched the guy. Knowing, full well, the liberal media would have gone ballistic in condemning the appointment.
Agree...but don't hold your breath. If they give geitner the boot, it will be admitting they f'ed up by giving him the job in the first place, and that's not going to happen.
I know Demint’s demand will get a lot of Conservative applause, because as a Conservative what’s to like about Geithner? Very little.
But this move would be mere window dressing and, I believe, it would remove someone who is simply window dressing (in my view).
I think Geithner has been caught all along in the prospect of having to admit just how little of an influence he is on Obama’s economic and “budget” policies. His real job, his only real job, is to give the administration’s public face on things WHEN HE IS TOLD to, and otherwise to stay out of the public eye.
How do you admit you are in this vaulted position and you are irrelevant to the general policies being set, set by Obama’s political agenda and nothing else.
Do you come out and admit you really are “little” Timmy Geithner, an epitome of a lifetime of establishment connections that made you the epitome of the Peter Principal (rising to the highest state you are unqualified for)?
Removing Geithner should satisfy no one because he would be replaced by another stooge who would be told “either go out and sell the President’s political agenda or shut up - don’t think, your expertise is not needed, just do as you’re told”.
Mr. Demint, I hope Obama does not remove Geithner.
He would get the opportunity, again, to pretend he was making a meaningful change. He would get to sell the pretense to the media, who would advance Obama’s PR agenda that he was finally getting serious about our debt and deficits.
Mr. Demint, why should Obama have the pleasure of the pretense that Geithner makes economic and/or budget decisions for Obama. He doesn’t and never has. He has no power or influence to write any part of Obama’s Federal-power expansion plan financially out of Obama’s financial proposals.
That is the source of our debt and deficit Problmes, not the public face of little Timmy Geithner.
Leave it to DeMint to go after the puppet and not its master.
The man is despicable.