Doesn’t every administration engage in two minutes of hate and try and protray an entire class of people as charactures that even Joe Stewart would disown? Doesn’t every administration shred the Constitution just to prove that you can get this kind of star chamber treatment if you anger us?

I heartily concur that no this treatment, which would be common place at Stalin’s show trials or the People’s Courts of Hitler, shouldn’t be condemned as something out of the norm and are just as American as mom and apple pie.

We are getting to see how the lobster gets cooked. Its going to be along four years.

What this blog needs is more David Frum, Brooks, and McCain just to keep the icy objectivity.

It begs the question .. who is minding the store ?

Behind the scenes, Mr. Geithner was the point person for weeks of sleep-deprived Bailout Weekends. It was Geithner, not Mr. Paulson, for example, who put together the original rescue plan for the American International Group.”

NY Times 11/25/2008

Geithner designed the AIG bailout. It was his baby. He also help write TARP along with Patrick Kennedy. To say that he was not aware that AIG was going to continue to get their bonuses shows that Geithner is either lying, or he is stupid, or both. The first clue should have been Geithner saying he didn’t pay his taxes because he used Turbo Tax.

And who has Geithner hired to help him and be his waterboy? None other than Lewis Alexander, chief financial economist for Citigroup, which has also had to have taxpayer bailout dollars. And Alexander doesn’t have to be approved because he is working directly for Geithner.

Add Alexander to the long list of crooks and tax dodgers that are currenly on the new administrations staff. Just take a look at who is on Obama’s Ecomonic Recovery Advisory Board: Penny Pritzer (who still owes the American people millions for her family’s failed bank), Andrew Stern, president of the corrupt SEIU and Jeffrey Immelt, who has driven GE into the ground and violated sanctions our nation placed on doing business with Iran. But then, with GE’s new company, Greenhouse Gas Services,that will deal in cap and trade (carbon credit scam), GE, and Immelt, stand to profits handsomely.

Pay to play is alive and well in D.C. and looks like it has gotten a shot of steroids.

Geithner needs to go. He brings nothing to the table in a time when the market is looking to the White House to instill confidence. And what does Obama do while Rome is burning? He leaves D.C. to go play his fiddle on Jay Leno.

If you don’t shut the fuck up about Bush every single time I mention something, you are going to be banned. Bush is not in the White House. End of story. And I did point out the hypocrisy in the Bush administration time and time and time again. For you not to acknowledge that shows your ignorance. Either add something constructive or go away.

I’m sorry Rick. I’ll be good.

Who would want to be his backstop?

I don’t know with Geithner whether what we’re seeing is a clumsy sort of wait-and-see, or whether he’s just lost. It’s almost as if with Bernanke and Geithner and the president there’s a sneaking feeling that things will sort themselves out over the next months to a year.

They don’t seem as scared as their own rhetoric suggests they should be. I find this interesting.

I’m just not seeing a clear narrative that makes sense to me, not from any side.