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March 05, 2009
"All By Myself"
Understaffed Geithner can't keep up, critics say...With an awkward first television appearance, a bank rescue plan that lacked promised specifics and two restructured bailouts that raised taxpayer risk, Geithner has failed to calm financial markets desperate for answers.
Critics say part of the problem is that Geithner is flying solo: Not one of his top 17 deputies has been named, let alone confirmed. And without senior leadership, lower-level Treasury employees can't make decisions or represent the government in crucial conversations with banks and others.
Remember this guy? We were told he's Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius ~ TurboTax excepted ~ and we had to confirm him 'cause he's THE ONLY ONE who could do it all.
Now he's lonely.
And we're f*cked.
Posted by tree hugging sister at March 5, 2009 09:14 AM
Comments
This is a man* WAY in over his head.
WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY in.
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*: In a metrosexual sort of way. And in a biological sense as well. Otherwise.....not hardly.
Posted by: JeffS at March 5, 2009 10:57 AM
The whole damn administration is in way over their pointy heads.
And we are indeed f*cked.
Posted by: Gunslinger at March 5, 2009 05:35 PM
Ronery... So ronery...
On a serious note, not a one of these third-class jokers could carry Alex Hamilton's chamber pot. The Man basically built the entire system from a blueprint he carried around in his head, and that system endured for two centuries. I almost feel like we ought to apologize to his ghost. This country is so staggering wealthy how is it remotely possible that we're also broke? He would be gobsmacked. Hell, I'm gobsmacked.
Posted by: nightfly at March 6, 2009 10:27 AM