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March 18, 2009

The AP Should Read The Swilling

If they did they could have published this yesterday

WASHINGTON – If not distancing itself from Treasury Secretary and noted tax cheat Timothy Geithner, the White House is placing firmly on his shoulders responsibility for how the government handled the $165 million in bonuses paid to about 400 executives and traders at American International Group Inc.

...Then he volunteered the answer to a question being asked all over Washington: Did noted tax cheat Geithner still enjoy President Barack Obama's confidence, given the whopping bonuses the failed insurance giant paid Friday after receiving taxpayer bailout money?

"The president has complete confidence" in noted tax cheat Geithner, Gibbs said.

Is Obama satisfied that noted tax cheat Geithner informed him of the impending bonus payments in a timely fashion?

"Yes, the president is satisfied," Gibbs replied.

Those, of course, are statements that wouldn't need to be made if noted tax cheat Geithner's status were clear. Not just a president's confidence, but his "complete confidence" can be a well-worn political signal that the person allegedly enjoying it should start circulating a resume.

Update: Maybe this is how the AP found us. Hehehe.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at March 18, 2009 10:40 AM

Comments

Another one under the bus. Maybe Tax-cheat Timmy will find time to do his taxes correctly under there.

Posted by: Retread at March 18, 2009 05:31 PM

But realistically? Those executives were legally entitled to the bonuses, having been promised them last year, and the bonuses were signed into law by The One Himself. And that little clause of the Generational Theft Act was inserted into said Act by none other than Chris "Blarney Cottage" Dodd himself.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 18, 2009 09:32 PM