Word From The Hill On Geithner

I went at a confidential Senate source on Geithner as I am so ticked with the Republican's weak approach on Geithner's tax issues. I rarely use this source here out of respect for their position but I asked permission to share the insight.

Supposedly the inside argument is that Geithner is probably the most conservative nominee they would likely see from Obama for the spot and any replacement would probably be worse.

Make of it what you will. I responded about principles, etc. But, hey, it is DC. What can I say? We elect them and probably will continue to in many cases.

But that's the argument I hear is circulating for not taking Geithner on more strongly. I guess it could also explain why some in media have finally found an Obama pick they can take a shot at to some degree.

Comments

[Blue]

As someone who has been fined by the IRS for paying $20 late, I am extremely upset.

This is crazy. The guy could be brilliant for all I care, but the issue in DC is ethics. They have none.

If they don't fight this tooth and nail I am changing to Independant.

[mc]

I just sent this to Hatch...

Dear Sir,

I have always had faith that the Republican Party tried to do what was best for our country and I voted accordingly. However, I am beginning to doubt that belief.

As a small business owner that struggles to pay his taxes and has paid fines to the IRS larger that the small amounts of money I actually owed, I have to state for the record I am disgusted by the behavior of Republicans regarding Timothy Geithner.

I cannot believe that our Senators are going to allow this person to become Treasury Secretary. I started my first business when I was very young and understood taxes better than him. It is a sad state of affairs if a 22 year old kid understands payroll taxes better than an elected official. If he understood and didn't pay, then that too is a sad state of affairs.

Upon first hearing this news I was left speechless. As a 40 year old, I have never written a Senator before. I am now writing to tell you that I have had enough of the Republican Party. I am telling you forthrightly that if Republicans don't fight this nominee I will no longer support the Republican Party, neither financially or with my vote.

Having people like this in office is wrong. The average citizen could not get away with these shenanigans. Please explain to me why our elected officials should not be held to the same standard that I am?

Confirming this nominee only validates my belief that the Republicans serving our country... are not really serving our country!

[jharp]

Repuplicans moving left. Who da thought?

And you guys thought Obama was moving right. Too funny.

And what a difference an election makes. Seems some vulnerable Republicans have decided to get on the bandwagon and actually vote for a leftist cause.

The House of Representatives passed the S-CHIP bill by a wide margin of 289-139. George Bush repeatedly vetoed similar legislation. President Obama will sign it.

Hooray!

[North Dallas Thirty]

Of course you would support the S-CHIP expansion, jharp.

All it does is give welfare to rich white people like yourself by vastly increasing the tax on tobacco -- which, as your own party used to scream, is a regressive tax that disproportionately affects the poor and minorities.

http://northdallasthirty.blogspot.com/2007/08/bait-and-switch.html

http://northdallasthirty.blogspot.com/2007/10/important-point-of-s-chip-debate.html

Moreover, the leftist Democrat Party has openly admitted that this is nothing more than an attempt to cram socialized medicine down peoples' throats.

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/17/bombshell-vilsack-admits-schip-is-a-trojan-horse-for-socialized-medicine/

So why do welfare Democrats like you, jharp, support increasing taxes on the poor and minorities to pay for health insurance that you could afford -- except for the fact that you choose to waste your money on getting drunk and playing golf?

[jharp]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/business/15drug.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

I don't care which side of the aisle you are on regarding our health care system. This will make your blood boil.

[cahmd]

The Republican party is going the way of the Conservatives in Great Britain. Obama maybe the first black Tony Blair.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"which, as your own party used to scream, is a regressive tax that disproportionately affects the poor and minorities."

NDT you must understand, it would have been racist for the repugnicans to tax tobacco even to give away the tax money for medical insurance. When the demonrats do it, it is for good cause because the poor must be husbanded. It appears, according to NBC that Obie will be cutting SocSec among other entitlements soon. This is for our own godd NDT, we must all make sacrifices. Yes, even the "poor" and elderly must bear thier cross with the rest of us.

[SacTownMan]

"we must all make sacrifices"

We already are seeing the expanded S-CHIP on the backs of the smoking poor, a multitude of questionable cabinet picks, lots of new social welfare programs in the que from San Fran Nan and Prince Harry, 800+ billion in new spending. Waxman is talking ramming through the moonbats favorite pet peave "global warming" laws. Global warming, you folks back east remember that don't you.. If your teeth can stop chattering from some of the coldest weather on record!

Looks like that whole Changy/Hopey thing is being inserted into our anal orifices as we speak. Now I see what Xerxes meant when he said we should all have "some skin in the game!"

[MarkJ]

Hey, if I do end up getting a tax bill this coming year, I think I'll send a note to the IRS telling them, "I plan to take some time off on paying my tax balance like, oh say, for a couple of years. I hope you don't mind. If you DO mind, talk with Secretary Geithner about what he did. If he, and Charlie Rangel, can take time off from paying back taxes, which were way more than what I owe you, then why should you worry about me?"

[jon-paul]

Hiya Dan!

Loved your reader's letter to Mr. Hatch! I believe that you posed some very solid and pertinent questions for him. Moreover, I am of the precise opinion.

However the one thing that I am learing is the gap, divide, or canyon that exists between being a Republican, and one being a Conservative are two completely different issues.

No longer do I believe that the Republican party has our Nation's best interests as #1 on the agenda.

Pursuant to other matters you and some others' have written, I offer the following: Washington D.C. is completely corrupt and without any moral fiber whatsoever; the entire fiasco with Hillary Clinton's selection as Secretary of State was no more than an absurd mockery of our system; and, this rubbish concerning Timothy Geithner is dispicable and vulgar.

WTF is 'oversight'? What is going on when a man steals 50 billion dollars gets the ankle monitor and goes home? "Oversight and accountability" who, what, where is the 350 billion that no one can find?

Finally and thanks for the rant here...I am unequivocally positive that the status of affairs with our current economic struggles, huge bailouts, and lost money is a direct result of how Washington D.C. is run and managed, if there is such a thing. Cheers!!

jon-paul

[jharp]

"No longer do I believe that the Republican party has our Nation's best interests as #1 on the agenda."

You're a little late in your realiztion. Actually a lot late.

But nevertheless, welcome to the real world.

[seekeronos]

"--- So why do welfare Democrats like you, jharp, support increasing taxes on the poor and minorities to pay for health insurance that you could afford -- except for the fact that you choose to waste your money on getting drunk and playing golf? ---"

The country - and particularly Washington DC... is well overdue for a political enema.

The next four years of the pendulum swing far to the left and into the next Big Raw New Deal will have dire results - possibly dissolving the Republic itself.

As for the GOP, it is on its last legs. It is neither conservative nor very interested in containing government. All the GOP pols (in DC) are really interested in is keeping what little scraps are left to them as they slowly become a regional party.

May the vision of liberty and the call for smaller, unobtrusive government first envisioned by our founding fathers, and so vigorously defended by the Hon. Dr. Ron Paul be strong enough to shake awake the voters to action - to unseat these unscrupulous crooks who have attained the status of Roman Senators - with seemingly life-time appointments to their office.

When Bush was in power, many people were content to frame him as the source of all that is wrong in the world... but the truth is ... it is the Imperial Congress (both rats and pubs) that must shoulder the largest blame for America's fall from primacy on the world stage.

[templar knight]

Who's going to unseat the crooks in the media, or the crooks who now control public education, or the crooks who are in control of states and cities? The whole mess has to be torn down, seek. It will be a difficult next 8 years in America, and the World. Get ready for a rough ride.

[seekeronos]

As much as I really hate to say it, TK... I honestly do not see things changing for the better, unless the roots of our Liberty Tree are well and truly watered anew with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

I hope that the people do wake up and heed the call of old patriots like Ron Paul, and actually read our Constitution and begin to put the short leash on our representatives - from town hall all the way up to DC.

[jharp]

"Who's going to unseat the crooks in the media, or the crooks who now control public education, or the crooks who are in control of states and cities? The whole mess has to be torn down, seek. It will be a difficult next 8 years in America, and the World. Get ready for a rough ride."

You failed to mention the crooks on Wall Street. And the crooks running some of our biggest and most powerful corporations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/business/15drug.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Let's hope Obama is the one to it. George Bush sucked at it and made it worse.